Author:
Lawn, Beverly.
Imprint:Boston, MA : Bedford Books 2009.
Description:xii, 564 p. ; 21 cm.
Note:Includes biographical notes on the authors.
Note:Includes index.
Note:Young Goodman Brown (Nathaniel Hawthorn) -- The Cask of Amontillado (Edgar Allan Poe) -- Bartleby, the scrivener (Herman Melville) -- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Ambrose Bierce) -- The Necklace (Guy De Maupassant) -- The Story of an hour (Kate Chopin) -- A Blunder (Anton Chekhov) -- The Yellow wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman) -- Paul's case (Willa Cather) -- Araby (James Joyce) -- The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka) -- The Rocking-horse winner (D.H. Lawrence) -- The Jilting of Granny Weatherall (Katherine Anne Porter) -- Winter dreams (F. Scott Fitzgerald) -- Barn burning (William Faulkner) -- Hills like white elephants (Ernest Hemingway) -- The Chrysanthemums (John Steinbeck) -- A Worn path (Eudora Welty) -- Zaabalawi (Naguib Mahfouz) -- Battle royal (Ralph Ellison) -- The Lottery (Shirley Jackson) -- Sonny's blues (James Baldwin) -- A Good man is hard to find (Flannery O'Connor) -- The Shawl (Cynthia Ozick) -- A Very old man with enormous wings (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) -- A & P (John Updike) -- Cathedral (Raymond Carver) -- Where are you going, where have you been? (Joyce Carol Oates) -- Death by landscape (Margaret Atwood) -- The Lesson (Toni Cade Bambara) -- The Management of Grief (Bharati Mukherjee) -- Everyday use (Alice Walker) -- The Things they carried (Tim O'Brien) -- You can't get lost in Cape Town (Zoe Wicomb) -- Girl (Jamaica Kincaid) -- Two kinds (Amy Tan) -- The House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros) -- The Bridegroom (Ha Jin) -- How to become a writer (Lorrie Moore) -- What you pawn I will redeem (Sherman Alexie).
