The Oxford Book of Short Stories

Document Outline

• Contents
• Introduction
• Scott - The Two Drovers
• Hawthorne - The Birthmark
• Poe - Fall of the House of Usher
• Mark Twain -Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
• Harte - Iliad of Sandy Bar
• Bierce - Coup de Grace
• James - Paste
• Stevenson - Thrawn Janet
• Conrad - Secret Sharer
• Kipling - Record of Badalia Herodsfoot
• O Henry - Telemachus, Friend
• Saki - Sredni Vashtar
• Crane - Open Boat
• de la Mare - Ideal Craftsman
• Maugham - An Official Position
• Anderson - I Want to Know Why
• Coppard - Field of Mustard
• Joyce - Grace
• Larence - Rocking Horse Winner
• Lardner - Who Dealt?
• Mansfield - Woman at the Store
• Porter - Flowering Judas
• O"Flaherty - The Tent
• Faulkner - Dry September
• Hemingway - Hills Like White Elephants
• Bowen - The Demon Lover
• Pritchett - Many are Disappointed
• O'Faolain - Sinners
• Frank O'Connor - Guests of the Nation
• Callaghan - The Runaway
• Bates - Never
• Narayan - Horse and Two Goats
• Welty - A Visit of Charity
• Sansom - Various Temptations
• Lavin - My Vocation
• White - Five-Twenty
• Cheever - Goodbye, My Brother
• Lessing - Mrs. Fortescue
• Flannery O'Connor - Parker's Back
• Trevor - Going Home
• Updike - Lifeguard
• Acknowledgments
• Author Index