THEORY OF THE SHORT STORY:
- Charles E. May, The New Short Story Theories (Ohio UP 1994)
SHORT STORIES:
- James Joyce, Dubliners
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown” (NAAL)
- Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher” (NAAL)
- William Faulkner, “Barn Burning” (NAAL)
- Rudyard Kipling, “Mary Postgate”
- Elizabeth Bowen, “The Demon Lover”, “The Evil That Men Do -“
- Annie Proulx, “Brokeback Mountain”
- Nadine Gordimer, “Some Are Born to Sweet Delight”, “Once Upon a Time”, “The Moment Before the Gun Went Off”
- Hanif Kureishi, “My Son the Fanatic”
- Kushwant Singh, “Karma”
- Anita Desai, “Scholar and Gypsy”
- R.K. Narayan, “A Horse and Two Goats”
- Katherine Mansfield, “The Garden Party”
- Alice Munro, “Friend of My Youth”
- Raymond Carver, “Cathedral” (NAAL), “Feathers”
- Ernest Hemingway, “A Very Short Story”, “Hills Like White Elephants”, “Cat in the Rain”
- Jon McGregor, “If It Keeps On Raining”
- John Cheever, “Reunion”
- Zadie Smith, “Martha, Martha”
- Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” (NAAL)
- Bharati Mukherjee, “The Management of Grief”
- Graham Swift, “Seraglio”
- Virginia Woolf, “The Mark on the Wall”
- Muriel Spark, “The House of the Famous Poet”
NAAL: The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter 8th Edition.
- James Joyce, Dubliners (Penguin Modern Classics)