About this book

Contains: Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe -- An occurrence at owl creek bridge/ Ambrose Bierce -- The story of an hour / Kate Chopin -- The lady with the dog / Anton Chekhov -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Araby / James Joyce -- Kew gardens / Virginia Woolf -- A hunger artist / Franz Kafka -- Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield -- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner -- Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway -- I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen -- The swimmer / John Cheever-- Battle royal / Ralph Ellison -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- Sonny's blues / James Baldwin -- A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel García Márquez -- Cathedral / Raymond Carver -- Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates -- The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara -- Happy endings / Margaret Atwood -- Everyday use / Alice Walker -- The things they carried / Tim O'Brien -- The man to send rain clouds / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Girl / Jamaica -- The house on Mango Street / Sandra Cisneros -- The red convertible / Louise Erdich -- Sticks / George Sanders -- The great Silence / Ted Chang -- Brownies / ZZ Packer -- Echo Ave. / Adrian Tomine -- Birdsong / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -- At the round earth's imagined corners / Lauren Groff -- You can find love now / Ramona Ausubel -- Vampires in the lemon grove / Karen Russell -- If you see me, don't say hi / Neel Patel -- A modern marriage / Grace Oluseyi -- The suitcase / Meron Hadero.

Subjects

  • allegory
  • american civil war
  • catechism
  • change
  • children's fiction
  • civil war
  • classic literature
  • confederate states of america
  • crime
  • death
  • detective and mystery stories
  • devil
  • fiction
  • freedom
  • gentleman's agreements
  • hanging
  • history
  • horror stories
  • juvenile audience
  • juvenile fiction
  • meaning of love
  • mentally ill women
  • nonlinear narrative
  • puritans
  • recluses
  • revenge
  • satanism
  • self-fulfilment
  • selfhood
  • short stories
  • short story
  • tradition
  • union