PART Ⅰ STORIES FOR DISCUSSION 1
1．Quality John Galsworthy 1
CONTENTS 3
INTRODUCTION： 3
Understanding the Short Story 3
2．How Beautiful with Shoes Wilber D．Steele 14
3．A Little Cloud James Joyce 46
4．That Evening Sun William Faulkner 66
PART Ⅱ STORIES FOR FURTHER READING AND STUDY 90
1．A Special Occasion Joyce Cary 90
2．My Oedipus Complex Frank O’Connor 94
3．Paul’s Case Willa Cather 109
4．Two Soldiers William Faulkner 135
5．The Father Hugh Garner 155
6．A Summer’s Reading Bernard Malamud 170
7．The Old Venerable A．E．Coppard 181
8．To Build a Fire Jack London 192
9．The Japanese Quince John Galsworthy 212
10．The Catbird Seat James Thurber 217
11．The Killers Ernest Hemingway 229
12．The Season’s Dying Eugene Ziller 242
APPENDIX Ⅰ Short Story and Novel Compared 260
APPENDIX Ⅱ Biographical Notes 261