40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology
Seventh EditionBeverly Lawn; Joanne Diaz
©202540 Short Stories offers a diverse selection of 40 classic and contemporary short fiction for a low price. The stories are arranged chronologically by publication date with brief biographical headnotes. New additions to the seventh edition include celebrated contemporary writers Carmen Maria Machado, Jamil Jan Kochai, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
Table of Contents
Preface for Instructors
Other Ways into the Stories: Alternative Contents
Reading and Writing about Short Stories
Reading Short Stories Closely
Writing about Short Stories
40 Short Stories
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brown"
Edgar Allan Poe, "The Cask of Amontillado"
Ambrose Bierce, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper"
Kate Chopin, "The Story of an Hour"
Anton Chekhov, "The Lady with the Dog"
James Joyce, "Araby"
Franz Kafka, "A Hunger Artist"
Ernest Hemingway, "Hills Like White Elephants"
William Faulkner, "A Rose for Emily"
Shirley Jackson, "The Lottery"
Ralph Ellison, "Battle Royal"
Flannery O’Connor, "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"
James Baldwin, "Sonny’s Blues"
Joyce Carol Oates, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"
Gabriel García Márquez, "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"
Toni Cade Bambara, "The Lesson"
Alice Walker, "Everyday Use"
Jamaica Kincaid, "Girl"
Raymond Carver, "Cathedral"
Sandra Cisneros, "The House on Mango Street"
Louise Erdrich, "The Red Convertible"
Tim O’Brien, "The Things They Carried"
Margaret Atwood, "Happy Endings"
ZZ Packer, "Brownies"
*Toni Jensen, "From the Hilltop"
*Lysley Tenorio, "L’Amour, CA"
*Simon Rich, "I Love Girl"
Lauren Groff, "At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners"
*Carmen Maria Machado, "The Husband Stitch"
*Lesley Nneka Arimah, "Who Will Greet You at Home?"
*Rebecca Roanhorse, "Welcome to Your Authentic Indian ExperienceTM"
Ramona Ausubel, "You Can Find Love Now"
Neel Patel, "If You See Me, Don’t Say Hi"
*Anthony Veasna So, "Three Women of Chuck’s Donuts"
*Jonathan Escoffery, "Under the Ackee Tree"
*Etgar Keret, "Almost Everything"
*Jamil Jan Kochai, "The Haunting of Hajji Hotak"
*Michael Czyzniejewski, "Earth to Terry"
*Lisa Yvette Ndlovu, "Home Became a Thing with Thorns"
Glossary of Literary Terms
Acknowledgments
Index of Authors and Titles
*New to the 7th edition