Preface A Brief History of Short FictiOn The Elements of Short FictiOn Nathaniel Hawfhorne Y0ung Goodman Brown Edgar AlIan Poe The FaU of the House of Usher Sarah 0rne Jeweff A White Heron Charloffe PerkinS Gilan The Yellow Wall—Paper Sherwood Anderson Death in the Woods JameS Joyce Araby Virgina Woolf Kew Gardens Franz Kafka A Country Doctor ISak DineSen The Blue Jar DaVid Herbert Lawrence The Horse—Dealer’s Daughter Kathe rlne ManSfield The Garden Party Katherine Anne P0rfer Theft William Faulkner A Rose for Emily Emest Hemjngway Hills like White Elephants Vladimjr Nabokoy Signs and Symbols Eudora Welly A Worn Path J0hn Cheever The Enormous Radio Doris Lessing Through the Tunnel Gabrjel Garcfa Marquez A Very old Man with Enormous Wings AIice WaIker Everyday Use Reflerences