Short Fiction : American

HANDOUTS

~ Masterpieces in Short Fiction (List)

~ Elements of Fiction (Part 1)

~ Elements of Fiction (Part 2)

[In Construction] ---. .

PRIMARY SOURCES

~ Raymond Carver - A Small, Good Thing

~---------- --The Cathedral

~ Stephen Crane - The Open Boat

~ O-Henry -- A Blackjack Bargainer

~ ---------- - The Whirligig of Life

~ ---------- -- The Gift of the Magi

~ E.E. Cummings - [Poetry Selection]

~ Edwin Arlington Robinson - [Poetry Selections]

~ T. S. Eliot - [Poetry Selections]

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson - Self Reliance

~ William Faulkner - Barn Burning

~ ---------- - A Rose for Emily

~ ---------- - Wash

~ ---------- -Dry September

~ Robert Frost - [Poetry Selection]

~ W. F. Harvey - August Heat

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Minister's Black Veil

~ ---------- - Young Goodman Brown

~ ---------- - Rappaccini's Daughter

~ Ernest Hemingway - A Clean Well-Lighted Place

~ ---------- - Snows of Kilimanjaro

~ ---------- - Hills Like White Elephants

~ ---------- - The Short Happy Life of Frances Macomber

~ Washington Irving - Rip Van Winkle

~ Thomas Jefferson - [Document - Declaration]

~ Jack London - To Build a Fire

~ Herman Melville - Bartleby, The Scrivener

~ Sylvia Plath - [Poetry Selection]

~ Edgar Alan Poe - The Black Cat

~ ---------- - The Fall of the House of Usher

~ ---------- - The Cask of Amontillado

~ Ezra Pound - [Poetry Selection]

~ Mark Twain - The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

~ Eudora Welty - First Love

~ ---------- - Why I live at the P.O.

~ ---------- - Old Mr. Marblehall

~ ---------- - A Worn Path

~ Walt Whitman - [Poetry Selection; Leaves of Grass]

~ William Carlos Williams - [Poetry Selection]

~ Willa Cather - Paul's Case

~ John Cheever - The Swimmer

~ Shirley Jackson - The Lottery

~ Joyce Carol Oates - Where are you going?, Where have you been?

~ Katherine Anne Porter - The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

~ ----------. - Rope

~ John Updike - A & P

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