40 short stories : a portable anthology / Forty short stories edited by Beverly Lawn. - 3rd ed. - Boston, MA : Bedford/St. Martin's, c2009. - xii, 564 p. ; 21 cm.

Includes index.

Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe -- Bartleby, the scrivener / Herman Melville -- An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce --The necklace / Guy de Maupassant -- The story of an hour / Kate Chopin -- A blunder / Anton Chekhov -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Paul's case / Willa Cather -- Araby / James Joyce -- The metamorphosis / Franz Kafka -- The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence -- The jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter -- Winter dreams / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Barn burning / William Faulkner --Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway -- The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck -- A worn path / Eudora Welty -- Zaabalawi / Naguib Mahfouz -- Battle royal / Ralph Ellison -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- Sonny's blues / James Baldwin -- A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- The shawl / Cynthia Ozick -- A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel García Márquez -- A & P / John Updike -- Cathedral / Raymond Carver -- Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates -- Death by landscape / Margaret Atwood -- The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara -- The management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee -- Everyday use / Alice Walker -- The things they carried / Tim O'Brien -- You can't get lost in Cape Town / Zoë Wicomb -- Girl / Jamaica Kincaid -- Two kinds / Amy Tan -- The house on Mango Street / Sandra Cisneros -- The Bridgeroom / Ha Jin -- How to become a writer / Lorrie Moore -- What you pawn I will redeem / Sherman Alexie.

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