[[New selections indicated with an asterisk]]

Preface for Instructors
Other Ways into the Stories: Alternative Contents

Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown”
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado”
*Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour”
Anton Chekhov, “The Lady with the Dog”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper”
James Joyce, “Araby”
*Virginia Woolf, “Kew Gardens”
Franz Kafka, “A Hunger Artist”
Katherine Mansfield, “Miss Brill”
William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily”
Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants”
*Tillie Olsen, “I Stand Here Ironing”
*John Cheever, “The Swimmer”
Ralph Ellison, “Battle Royal”
Shirley Jackson, “The Lottery”
James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues”
Flannery O’Connor, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”
Gabriel García Márquez, “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”
Raymond Carver, “Cathedral”
Joyce Carol Oates, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”
Toni Cade Bambara, “The Lesson”
Margaret Atwood, “Happy Endings”
Alice Walker, “Everyday Use”
Tim O’Brien, “The Things They Carried”
Leslie Marmon Silko, “The Man to Send Rain Clouds”
Jamaica Kincaid, “Girl”
Sandra Cisneros, “The House on Mango Street”
*Louise Erdrich, “The Red Convertible”
*George Saunders, “Sticks”
*Ted Chiang, “The Great Silence”
*ZZ Packer, “Brownies”
*Adrian Tomine, “Echo Ave”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “Birdsong”
Lauren Groff, “At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners”
*Ramona Ausubel, “You Can Find Love Now”
Karen Russell, “Vampires in the Lemon Grove”
*Neel Patel, “If You See Me, Don’t Say Hi”
*Grace Oluseyi, “A Modern Marriage”
*Meron Hadero, “The Suitcase”

Reading Short Stories Closely
Writing about Short Stories
Biographical Notes on the Authors
Glossary of Literary Terms
Index of Authors and Titles

13 new selections encompass proven classic and contemporary stories as well as exciting recent fiction. Guided by instructor reviews, a third of the fiction has been updated with compelling stories that will engage students. Classic stories that fire students’ imaginations include:

• Virginia Woolf, “Kew Gardens”
• Tillie Olsen, “I Stand Here Ironing”
• John Cheever, “The Swimmer”

Celebrated contemporary and award-winning fiction include:

• Ted Chiang, “The Great Silence”
• Adrian Tomine, “Echo Ave” (graphic fiction)
• Neel Patel, “If You See Me, Don’t Say Hi”

A full-length student essay. Newly added to the coverage of critical writing about fiction, a full-length annotated student literary analysis provides students with a quality model of writing about fiction.

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