Best Short Stories -- Advanced Level

Raymond Harris Katherine Mansfield James Baldwin Frank O'Connor Katherine Anne Porter Jean-Paul Sartre John Updike Edgar Allan Poe Nathaniel Hawthorne William Faulkner Truman Capote Isaac Asimov Woody Allen Mark Twain Isaac Bashevis Singer Shirley Jackson John Steinbeck First published 1980

About this book

The garden party / Katherine Mansfield Tell me how long the train's been gone / James Baldwin My Oedipus complex / Frank O'Connor The jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter The wall / Jean-Paul Sartre The Christian roommates / John Updike Young goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne The black cat / Edgar Allan Poe A rose for Emily / William Faulkner A Christmas memory / Truman Capote The leader of the people / John Steinbeck Nightfall / Isaac Asimov The Kugelmass episode / Woody Allen The man that corrupted Hadleyburg / Mark Twain The gentleman from Cracow / Isaac B. Singer The lottery / Shirley Jackson

Subjects

  • allegory
  • boys
  • catechism
  • cats
  • change
  • children's fiction
  • death
  • devil
  • english language
  • fiction
  • first-person narrative
  • gallows
  • gentleman's agreements
  • horror fiction
  • literature
  • mentally ill women
  • nonlinear narrative
  • puritans
  • reading comprehension
  • recluses
  • satanism
  • self-hatred
  • short stories
  • short story
  • study and teaching
  • study and teaching (secondary)
  • tradition
  • unreliable narrators