Table of Contents

Preface

Nathaniel Hawthorne
YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN

Edgar Allan Poe
THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO

Herman Melville
BARTLEBY, THE SCRIVENER

Thomas Hardy
THE SON’S VETO

Kate Chopin
THE STORY OF AN HOUR

Charlotte Perkins Gilman
THE YELLOW WALLPAPER

Stephen Crane
THE OPEN BOAT

James Joyce
THE DEAD

Katherine Mansfield
THE DOLL’S HOUSE

William Faulkner
A ROSE FOR EMILY

Ernest Hemingway
HILLS LIKE WHITE ELEPHANTS

Hisaye Yamamoto
SEVENTEEN SYLLABLES

James Baldwin
SONNY’S BLUES

Flannery O’Connor
A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND

Alice Munro
MILES CITY, MONTANA

Gloria Sawai
MOTHER’S DAY

Raymond Carver
CATHEDRAL

Margaret Atwood
DEATH BY LANDSCAPE

Richard Ford
UNDER THE RADAR

Tim O’Brien
THE THINGS THEY CARRIED

Jamaica Kincaid
GIRL

Rohinton Mistry
SWIMMING LESSONS

Sandra Cisneros
MY LUCY FRIEND WHO SMELLS LIKE CORN

Lorrie Moore
YOU’RE UGLY, TOO

Eden Robinson
QUEEN OF THE NORTH

Sheila Heti
THE RASPBERRY BUSH

Acknowledgments

Glossary

Chronology