[*Indicates a new section or selection compared to full 10e and compact 9e] [**Indicates additional section or selection that is new compared to compact 9e] Preface Brief Contents Contents Chronological Listing of Authors and Stories *Global Perspectives Listing of Authors Thematic Index to the Stories Guide to the Commentaries **Introduction: Why Read Literature? PART ONE: STORIES *Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, A Private Experience Sherwood Anderson, Hands Margaret Atwood, Happy Endings James Baldwin, Sonny''s Blues Toni Cade Bambara, The Lesson **Alison Bechdel, The Fellowship [graphic story] Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Jorge Luis Borges, The South *Richard Brautigan, The Cleveland Wrecking Yard **Angela Carter, The Company of Wolves Raymond Carver, Cathedral Willa Cather, Paul''s Case John Cheever, The Swimmer Anton Chekhov, The Darling **Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Little Dog Kate Chopin, Désirée''s Baby Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour *Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street *Sandra Cisneros, My Name *Sandra Cisneros, A House of My Own *Sandra Cisneros, Mango Says Goodbye Sometimes Stephen Crane, The Open Boat *Edwidge Danticat, Without Inspection * Lydia Davis, The Caterpillar *Lydia Davis, Happiest Moment Junot Díaz, How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie Ralph Ellison, Battle Royal Louise Erdrich, The Red Convertible William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily William Faulkner, That Evening Sun Gabriel García Márquez, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper *Lauren Groff, The Midnight Zone Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown **Bessie Head, Looking for a Rain-God *Ernest Hemingway, Big Two-Hearted River Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants *Zora Neale Hurston, The Country in the Woman **Zora Neale Hurston, Sweat **Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle Shirley Jackson, The Lottery Sarah Orne Jewett, A White Heron James Joyce, Araby James Joyce, The Dead Franz Kafka, The Hunger Artist Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis Jamaica Kincaid, Girl *Jamil Jan Kochai, Occupational Hazards D.H. Lawrence, The Rocking-Horse Winner Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas * Jonathan Lethem, Narrowing Valley Jack London, To Build a Fire *Ling Ma, Peking Duck **Katherine Mansfield, The Garden-Party Guy de Maupassant, The Necklace Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener *Manuel Muñoz, Anyone Can Do It *Alice Munro , Night **Keiji Nakazawa, From Barefoot Gen [graphic story] Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Tim O''Brien, The Things They Carried Flannery O''Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing Grace Paley, A Conversation with My Father Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado **Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher *Annie Proulx, Job History Marjane Satrapi, From Persepolis: "The Veil" [graphic story] *George Saunders, Sticks Said Sayrafiezadeh, A Brief Encounter with the Enemy Leslie Marmon Silko, Yellow Woman *Zadie Smith, The Lazy River **Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych John Updike, A& P **Helena Maria Viramontes, The Moths Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Harrison Bergeron Alice Walker, Everyday Use **Eudora Welty, A Worn Path *John Edgar Wideman, George Floyd Story Richard Wright, The Man Who Was Almost a Man PART TWO: COMMENTARIES **Paula Gunn Allen, Whirlwind Man Steals Yellow Woman Sherwood Anderson, Form, Not Plot, in the Short Story Wayne C. Booth, A Rhetorical Reading of O''Connor''s "Everything that Rises Must Converge" Jorge Luis Borges, Borges and I **Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, A New Critical Reading of "The Fall of the House of Usher" Raymond Carver, Creative Writing 101 Ann Charters, Translating Kafka Anton Chekhov, Technique in Writing the Short Story Kate Chopin, How I Stumbled upon Maupassant Stephen Crane, The Sinking of the Commodore *Lindsey Drager, Not Essay, Nor Fiction, But Prose: Of Narration **Terry Eagleton, How to Read Literature Ralph Ellison, The Influence of Folklore on "Battle Royal **Richard Ellmann, A Biographical Perspective on Joyce''s "The Dead" William Faulkner, The Meaning of "A Rose for Emily" **Janice H. Harris, Levels of Meaning in Lawrence''s "The Rocking Horse Winner" Zora Neale Hurston, How It Feels to Be Colored Me Shirley Jackson, The Morning of June 28, 1948 and "The Lottery" **Gustav Janouch, Kafka''s View of "The Metamorphosis" **Sarah Orne Jewett, Looking Back on Girlhood Jamaica Kincaid, On "Girl" **D.H.

Lawrence, On "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Cask of Amontillado" **Ursula K. LeGuin, The Scapegoat in Omelas **Jack London, Letter to the Editor on "To Build a Fire" Guy de Maupassant, The Writer''s Goal Herman Melville, Blackness in Hawthorne''s "Young Goodman Brown" **J. Hillis Miller, A Deconstructive Reading of Melville''s "Bartleby, the Scrivener" **Vladimir Nabokov, A Reading of Chekhov''s "The Lady with the Little Dog" **J.C.C. Nachtigal, Peter Klaus the Goatherd Joyce Carol Oates, Smooth Talk: Short Story into Film Tim O''Brien, Alpha Company Grace Paley, A Conversation with Ann Charters Edgar Allan Poe, The Importance of the Single Effect in a Prose Tale *George Saunders, Pattern Story: Thoughts on "The Darling" Leslie Marmon Silko, Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective Leo Tolstoy, Chekhov''s Intent in "The Darling" Mario Vargas Llosa, The Prose Style of Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez Alice Walker, Zora Neale Hurston: A Cautionary Tale and a Partisan View **Eudora Welty, Is Phoenix Jackson''s Grandson Really Dead? PART THREE: CASEBOOKS **CASEBOOK ONE: Short Shorts or Flash Fiction **Aesop, The Fox and the Grapes **Franz Kafka, The Wish to become an American Indian **John Barth, A Few Words about Minimalism **Charles Baxter, On the Very Short Story **Joyce Carol Oates, On Very Short Fictions **Lydia Davis, Reading Short Shorts CASEBOOK TWO: James Baldwin''s "Sonny''s Blues" James Baldwin, Autobiographical Notes **Keith E. Byerman, Words and Music: Narrative Ambiguity in "Sonny''s Blues" **Kenneth A. McClane, "Sonny''s Blues" Saved My Life *CASEBOOK THREE: Sandra Cisneros *Sandra Cisneros, Straw into Gold *Ellen McCracken, On Cisneros''s The House on Mango Street *Julián Olivares, The House on Mango Street and the Poetics of Space *Sandra Cisneros, The Author Responds to Your Letter **CASEBOOK FOUR: Charlotte Perkins Gilman''s "The Yellow Wallpaper" Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Why I Wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper" Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Undergoing the Cure for Nervous Prostration Sandra M.

Gilbert and Susan Gubar, A Feminist Reading of Gilman''s "The Yellow Wallpaper" **S. Weir Mitchell, Evolution of the Rest Treatment **Elaine Showalter, On "The Yellow Wallpaper" PART FOUR: APPENDICES 1. Reading Short Stories Grace Paley, Samuel Close Reading Short Fiction Guidelines for Close Reading Short Fiction Sample Close Reading: Grace Paley, Samuel Critical Thinking about Short Fiction 2. The Elements of Fiction Plot Character Setting Point of View Style Theme 3. *A Brief History of the Short Story *The Origins of Storytelling Early Forms of the Written Story The Tale of the Medieval Period The Influence of the Periodical The German Influence and Romanticism Realism Modernism The Post-Modern Era 4. Writing About Short Stories Keeping a Short Story Journal Using the Commentaries and Casebooks Writing the Paper Types of Literary Papers Student Essay: Explication Student Essay: Analysis Student Essay: Comparison and Contrast Writing about the Context and the Stories Other Perspectives Student Essay Writing the Research Paper **Argumentation **Student Essay: Research Paper Revising Your Research Paper 5. Literary Theory and Critical Perspectives Formalist Criticism Biographical Criticism Psychological Criticism Historical Criticism Reader-Response Criticism Poststructuralist and Deconstructionist Criticism Gender Criticism Cultural Criticism Selected Bibliography 6. Glossary of Literary Terms Acknowledgements Index of Authors and Titles.