Masterpieces of Short Fiction

Excavations — Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado"

Hawthorne's "Goodman Brown" and Lost Faith

Under Gogol's "Overcoat"

Maupassant's "The Necklace" — Real and Paste

Chekhov, Love, and "The Lady With the Dog"

James in the Art Studio — "The Real Thing"

Epiphany and the Modern in Joyce's "Araby"

Babel's "My First Goose" — Violent Concision

Male Initiation — Hemingway's "The Killers"

Kafka's Parable — "A Hunger Artist"

Lawrence's Blue-Eyed "Rocking-Horse Winner"

Female Initiation — Mansfield's "Party"

Jackson's Shocking Vision in "The Lottery"

O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"

Paley on Survival and "An Interest in Life"

The "Enormous Wings" of García Márquez

A New World Fable — Malamud's "The Jewbird"

Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues" — a Harlem Song

Updike's "A & P" — The Choice of Gallantry

Kingston's Warrior Myth — "No Name Woman"

Atwood's "Happy Endings" as Metafiction

Gordimer's "Moment Before" Apartheid Fell

Carver's "Cathedral" — a Story That Levitates

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