Books to purchase:
- Charles E. May, The New Short Story Theories (Ohio UP 1994)
- James Joyce, Dubliners (any edition)
- The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter 9th Edition (NAAL) (8th edition is also okay)
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature, The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, 10th Edition (NAEL)
Short stories:
- James Joyce, Dubliners
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown” (NAAL)
- Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher” (NAAL)
- Shirley Jackson, “The Lottery”
- Elizabeth Bowen, “The Demon Lover”
- Annie Proulx, “Brokeback Mountain”
- Nadine Gordimer, “Some Are Born to Sweet Delight”, “Once Upon a Time”
- Hanif Kureishi, “My Son the Fanatic” (NAEL)
- Anita Desai, “Scholar and Gypsy”
- R.K. Narayan, “A Horse and Two Goats”
- Katherine Mansfield, “The Garden Party” (NAEL)
- Alice Munro, “Friend of My Youth”
- Raymond Carver, “Cathedral” (NAAL),
- Ernest Hemingway, “A Very Short Story”, “Hills Like White Elephants” “Cat in the Rain”
- Jon McGregor, “If It Keeps On Raining”
- John Cheever, “Reunion”
- Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” (NAAL)
- Graham Swift, “Seraglio”
- Virginia Woolf, “The Mark on the Wall” (NAEL)
- D. H. Lawerence, “Odour of Chrysanthemums” (NAEL)
- Salman Rushdie, “The Prophet’s Hair” (NAEL)
- Muriel Spark, “The House of the Famous Poet”
- Jon McGregor, “If It Keeps on Raining”
- Alice Walker, “Everyday Use” (NAAL)
- Kristen Roupenian, “Cat Person”
- Mark Haddon, “The Pier Falls”
- Zadie Smith, “The Embassy of Cambodia”
- Dave Eggers, “Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly”
You will find links to short stories not found in NAAL or NAEL in Canvas.