Twice-Told Tales

To build a fire, version 1 / Jack London — To build a fire, version 2 / Jack London — An account of the tragic death of the Willey Family — The ambitious guest / Nathaniel Hawthorne — The child-who-was-tired / Katherine Mansfield — Sleepy / Anton Chekhov — From “Tricks and Defeats of Sporting Genius” / Samuel Seabough — The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras country / Mark Twain — Repentance / Frank O’Connor — First confession / Frank O’Connor — The death in the forest / Sherwood Anderson — Death in the woods / Sherwood Anderson — The geranium / Flannery O’Connor — Judgement / Flannery O’Connor — Odour of chrysanthemums, version 1 / D.H. Lawrence — Odour of chrysanthemums, version 3 / D.H. Lawrence — Odour of chrysanthemums, version 2, the ending / D.H. Lawrence — The jewelry / Guy de Maupassant — Paste / Henry James — Boule de Suif / Guy de Maupassant — The heroine / Isak Dinesen — That evening sun / William Faulkner — The killers / Ernest Hemingway — An occurrence at Owl Creek bridge / Ambrose Bierce — The secert miracle / Jorge Luis Borges — Miriam / Truman Capote — A little companion / Angus Wilson — The demon lover / Elizabeth Bown — The daemon lover / Shirley Jackson — The phantom lover, two excerpts — Dry September / William Faulkner — Going to meet the man / James Baldwin — The basement room / Graham Greene — Next door / Kurt Vonnegut — William Wilson / Edgar Allan Poe — The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad — The eyes / Edith Wharton — Life isn’t a short story / Conrad Aiken — The potato elf / Vladimer Nabokov — A painful case / James Joyce — Barbados / Paule Marshall — Death of a travelling salesman / Eudora Welty — Beggar my neighbor / Dan Jacobson — Awakening / Isaac Babel — Young goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne — The judgement / Franz Kafka — King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison — Night-sea journey / John Barth.