Fiction

Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne — Masque of the Red Death / Edgar Allan Poe — The necklace / Guy de Maupassant — The storm / Kate Chopin — The lady with the pet dog / Anton Chekhov — Roman fever / Edith Wharton — Paul’s case / Willa Cather — The dead / James Joyce — The horse dealer’s daughter / D.H. Lawrence — The jilting of Granny Weatherall — A rose for Emily / William Faulkner — A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway — The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck — The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright — Livvie / Eudora Welty — Flying home / Ralph Ellison — The lottery / Shirley Jackson — A woman on a roof / Doris Lessing — Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O’Connor — The handsomest drowned man in the world / Gabriel García Márquez — Civil peace / Chinua Achebe — Wild swans / Alice Munro — A & P / John Updike — Cathedral / Raymond Carver — Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates — Rape fantasies / Margaret Atwood — Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason — Everyday use / Alice Walker — The last of the menu girls / Denise Chávez — Fleur / Louise Erdrich.