About this book

Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe -- Bartleby the scrivener: a story of Wall Street / Herman Melville -- The pupil / Henry James -- The story of an hour / Kate Chopin -- The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad -- The lady with the dog / Anton Chekhov -- The open boat / Stephen Crane -- Araby / James Joyce -- A hunger artist / Franz Kafka -- The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence -- The grave / Katherine Anne Porter -- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Barn burning / William Faulkner -- A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway -- The secret miracle / Jorge Luis Borges -- The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck -- Gimpel the fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- A worn path / Eudora Welty -- The country husband / John Cheever -- King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison -- The jewbird / Bernard Malamud -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- Six feet of the country / Nadine Gordimer -- Sonny's blue / James Baldwin -- A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- The balloon / Donald Barthelme -- A & P / John Updike -- Where are you going? Where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates.

Subjects

  • boys
  • catechism
  • children's fiction
  • class conflict
  • classic literature
  • copyists
  • crime
  • detective and mystery stories
  • devil
  • fiction
  • freedom
  • history and criticism
  • horror stories
  • juvenile fiction
  • meaning of love
  • psychology
  • puritans
  • revenge
  • satanism
  • securities industry
  • self-fulfilment
  • selfhood
  • short stories
  • short story
  • young men