40 Short Stories includes 40 chronologically- arranged, classic and contemporary fiction selections with reading and writing support built in.
[[New selections indicated with an asterisk]]
Preface for Instructors Other Ways into the Stories: Alternative Contents
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown” Edgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado” *Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour” Anton Chekhov, “The Lady with the Dog” Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” James Joyce, “Araby” *Virginia Woolf, “Kew Gardens” Franz Kafka, “A Hunger Artist” Katherine Mansfield, “Miss Brill” William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants” *Tillie Olsen, “I Stand Here Ironing” *John Cheever, “The Swimmer” Ralph Ellison, “Battle Royal” Shirley Jackson, “The Lottery” James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues” Flannery O’Connor, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” Gabriel García Márquez, “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” Raymond Carver, “Cathedral” Joyce Carol Oates, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” Toni Cade Bambara, “The Lesson” Margaret Atwood, “Happy Endings” Alice Walker, “Everyday Use” Tim O’Brien, “The Things They Carried” Leslie Marmon Silko, “The Man to Send Rain Clouds” Jamaica Kincaid, “Girl” Sandra Cisneros, “The House on Mango Street” *Louise Erdrich, “The Red Convertible” *George Saunders, “Sticks” *Ted Chiang, “The Great Silence” *ZZ Packer, “Brownies” *Adrian Tomine, “Echo Ave” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “Birdsong” Lauren Groff, “At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners” *Ramona Ausubel, “You Can Find Love Now” Karen Russell, “Vampires in the Lemon Grove” *Neel Patel, “If You See Me, Don’t Say Hi” *Grace Oluseyi, “A Modern Marriage” *Meron Hadero, “The Suitcase”
Reading Short Stories Closely Writing about Short Stories Biographical Notes on the Authors Glossary of Literary Terms Index of Authors and Titles
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