The Short Story: 50 Masterpieces

by Ellen C. Wynn (Editor)

Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
The fall of the house of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe --
Bartleby the scrivener / Herman Melville --
The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy --
The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) --
An occurence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce --
The best in the jungle / Henry James --
The necklace / Guy de Maupassant --
The street sharer / Joseph Conrad --
The lady with the dog / Anton Chekhov --
The bride comes to yellow sky / Stephen Crane --
Paul's case / Willa Cather --
Disorder and Early Sorrow / Thomas Mann --
The egg / Sherwood Anderson --
Araby / James Joyce --
Kew Gardens / Virginia Woolf --
A hunger artist / Franz Kafka --
The use of force / William Carlos Willliams --
Haircut / Ring Lardner --
The rocking-horse winner / D. H. Lawrence --
A dill pickle / Katherine Mansfield --
The grave / Katherine Anne Porter --
My first goose / Isaac Babel --
The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber --
Babylon revisted / F. Scott Fitzgerald --
Barn burning / William Faulkner --
The secret miracle / Jorge Luis Borges --
The snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway --
The vane sisters / Vladamir Nabokov --
The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck --
First confession / Frank O'Conner --
The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright --
A worn path / Eudora Welty --
The country husband / John Cheever --
I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen --
King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison --
The magic barrell / Bernard Malamud --
A tree - A rock - A cloud / Carson McCullers --
The lottery / Shirley Jackson --
Our friend Judith / Doris Lessing --
A conversation with my father / Grace Paley --
Sonny's Blues / James Baldwin --
Patriotism / Yukio Mishima --
A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Conner --
A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel García Márquez --
The ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin --
Lost in the funhouse / John Barth --
Report / Donald Barthelme --
A & P / John Updike --
How I contemplated the world from the Detroit House of Correction and began my life over again / Joyce Carol Oates --
Biographical notes on the authors

792 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1983