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Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Birthmark

Edgar Allen Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

Nikolay Gogol, The Nose

Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

Henry James, The Real Thing

Kate Chopin, The Storm

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Anton Chekhov, Rothschilds Fiddle

Sara Jeannette Duncan, The Pool in the Desert

Edith Warton, Roman Fever

Duncan Campbell Scott, Paul Farlotte

Edith Eaton, Its Wavering Image

Stephen Leacock, The Hostelry of Mr. Smith

Stephen Crane, The Blue Hotel

James Joyce, Araby

Virginia Woolf, Kew Gardens

Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

D.H. Lawrence, The Horse Dealers Daughter

Katherine Mansfield, The Garden-Party

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Babylon Revisited

William Faulkner, Dry September

Ernest Hemmingway, Cat in the Rain

Jorge Luis Borges, The Gospel According to Mark

Sinclair Ross, Ones a Heifer

John Cheever, The Swimmer

Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

Doris Lessing, The Old Chief Mshlanga

*Mavis Gallant, Voices Lost in Snow

Grace Paley, A Conversation with My Father

*Flannery OConnor, Everything That Rises Must Converge

*Gabriel García Márquez, The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World

*William Trevor, The Virgins Gift

*Chinua Achebe, Civil Peace

John Barth, Lost in the Funhouse

Alice Munro, Who Do You Think You Are?

John Updike, A&P

Philip Roth, The Conversion of the Jews

Austin C. Clarke, When He Was Free and Young and He Used to Wear Silks

*Alistair MacLeod, As Birds Bring Forth the Sun

*Joyce Carol Oates ,Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

*Raymond Carver, Cathedral

*Margaret Atwood, The Age of Lead

*Angela Carter, The Company of Wolves

*Thomas King, The One About Coyote Going West

*Ann Beattie, Janus

William Gibson, Burning Chrome

Katherine Govier, The Immaculate Conception Photography Gallery

Ian McEwan, First Love, Last Rites

M.G. Vassanji, In the Quiet of a Sunday Afternoon

Guy Vanderhaeghe, Man Descending

Amy Tan, Rules of the Game

Russell Smith, Desire

* Indicates new selection.

Glossary of Critical Terms.

Index of Authors and Stories.