Preface 1
A Brief History of Short Fiction 1
The Elements of Short Fiction 1
Nathaniel Hawthorne 1
Young Goodman Brown 4
Edgar Allan Poe 25
The Fall of the House of Usher 28
Sarah Orne Jewett 56
A White Heron 58
Charlotte Perkins Gilman 73
The Yellow Wall-Paper 76
Sherwood Anderson 98
Death in the Woods 101
James Joyce 118
Araby 120
Virginia Woolf 129
Kew Gardens 131
Franz Kafka 141
A Country Doctor 144
Isak Dinesen 153
The Blue Jar 155
David Herbert Lawrence 159
The Horse-Dealer's Daughter 161
Katherine Mansfield 184
The Garden Party 187
Katherine Anne Porter 207
Theft 209
William Faulkner 219
A Rose for Emily 222
Ernest Hemingway 237
Hills like White Elephants 241
Vladimir Nabokov 249
Signs and Symbols 252
Eudora Welty 261
A Worn Path 263
John Cheever 276
The Enormous Radio 278
Doris Lessing 294
Through the Tunnel 297
Gabriel García Márquez 310
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings 313
Alice Walker 325
Everyday Use 328
References 341