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Index

A
"A & P" (Updike), 2377, 2828
"A la deriva." See "Drifting"
"A. V. Laider" (Beerbohm), 2797
"Abbé Aubain, The" (Mérimée), 2769
Abbott, Lee K., 1-4, 2835; "Final Proof of Fate and Circumstance, The," 2;
"Living Alone in Iota," 2, 2835; "Talk Talked Between Worms, The," 2
"Abduction of Bunny Steiner" (Disch), 747
Abel Sánchez (Unamuno y Jugo), 2372
"Aben." See "Monkey, The"
"About Loving Women" (Douglas), 768
"Abrazo de Vergara, El." See "Embrace at Vergara, The"
"Abroad" (Gordimer), 1042
"Absence of Mercy" (Stone), 2256
Abstractionism, 2229
"Accident" (Minot), 1688
"Accompagnatrice, La." See "Accompanist, The" (Colette)
"Accompanist, The" (Colette), 601
"Accompanist, The" (Pritchett), 1974
"Accountant" (Canin), 435
Achebe, Chinua, 4-9; "Civil Peace," 7, 2852; "Girls at War," 7, 2852; Girls at War, 2851;
"Uncle Ben's Choice," 6; "Vengeful Creditor," 5; "Voter, The," 2851
Acquainted with the Night, and Other Stories (Schwartz, Lynn Sharon), 2118
Acres and Pains (Perelman), 1903
"Across the Bridge" (Gallant), 942
Actual, The (Bellow), 237
"Adam, One Afternoon" (Calvino), 425
Adams, Alice, 9-13; "Beautiful Girl," 12; "Greyhound People," 10; "Haunted Beach, The," 12;
"Home Is Where," 10; Last Lovely City, The, 12; "Mexican Dust," 10;
"Molly's Dog," 11; "Public Pool, A," 11; "To See You Again," 11; "You Are What You Own," 11
Addison, Joseph, 14-18; Spectator, The, 14, 2726, 2737-2738; Tatler, The,
14, 18, 2737-2738; Tatler 163, 16; "Vision of Mizrah, The," 15, 2727
"Admiral and the Nuns, The" (Tuohy), 2348
"Admiralty Spire, The" (Nabokov), 1742
"Adoration of the Magi, The" (Yeats), 2570
"Adore Her" (Robison), 2057
"Adrianna Takes a Trip" (Pirandello), 1930
"Adulterous Woman, The" (Camus, Albert), 430
"Adultery" (Dubus), 791
"Advanced Beginners" (Bank), 157
"Advancing Luna" (Walker), 2868
"Adventure of a Bather, The" (Calvino), 425
"Adventure of the Camberwell Beauty, The" (Derleth), 717
"Adventure of the Dancing Men, The" (Doyle), 781
"Adventure of the Empty House, The" (Doyle), 780
"Adventure of the Remarkable Worm, The" (Derleth), 716
"Adventure of the Rudberg Numbers, The" (Derleth), 716
"Adventure of the Speckled Band, The" (Doyle), 777
"Adventures of a Monkey, The" (Zoshchenko), 2592
Adventures of Ellery Queen, The (Queen), 2620
"Adventures of Lo Bun Sun, The" (Kingston), 1380
Aeneid (Vergil), 2399, 2663, 2665
"Aeroplanes at Brescia, The" (Davenport), 683
Aesop, 2626, 2661
Aesop (Caxton), 2628
Aestheticism, 3056
"Affair at the Bungalow, The" (Christie), 576
"Afonka Bida" (Babel), 132
Africa, 2845-2856. See also "Geographical Index"
African American culture, 2857-2870. See also "Category Index"
African culture, 2845-2856. See also "Category Index"
"African Traveller, The" (Queen), 2014
"After Holbein" (Wharton), 2503
"After Long Absence" (Hospital), 1229
"After Rain" (Trevor), 2345
After Rain (Trevor), 2345
"After the Ball" (Collier), 607
"Afterlife, The" (Updike), 2384
Afterlife and Other Stories, The (Updike), 2383, 2828
"Age of Analysis, The" (Schwartz, Lynne Sharon), 2118
Age of Grief, The (Smiley), 2176
"Age of Lead, The" (Atwood), 113
Age of Reason, 2726
Agee, James, 19-22; Collected Short Prose of James Agee, The, 20; "Death in
the Desert," 21; Death in the Family, A, 19-20; "Dream Sequence," 21;
"Knoxville," 20; Morning Watch, The, 19-20
"Aghwee the Sky Monster" (Ōe), 1812
"Agnes" (Gordon, Mary), 1053
Agnon, Shmuel Yosef, 22-28; "Book That Was Lost, A," 27; Book That Was Lost and Other
Stories, A, 26; "Buczacz," 27; "Fable of the Goat," 24; "Kerchief, The," 25;
"Tale of Menorah, The," 27; "Whole Loaf, A," 26
Agostino (Moravia), 2821
"Aguri" (Tanizaki), 2284
"Ah, the University!" (Collier), 609
Ai, shi buneng wangj de. See Love Must Not Be Forgotten
Aichinger, Ilse, 28-31; "Bound Man, The," 30; "Story in a Mirror," 29
Aickman, Robert, 2651
Aidoo, Ama Ata; "In the Cutting of a Drink," 2852; No Sweetness Here and Other
Stories
, 2852; "Two Sisters," 2853
Aiiieeeee!, 2871
Aiken, Conrad, 32-37; "Conversation, A," 35; "Silent Snow, Secret Snow," 32;
"Strange Moonlight," 34; "Thistledown," 35; "Your Obituary, Well Written," 34
Airships (Hannah), 1109
Akutagawa, Ryūnosuke, 37-41, 2932; "Cogwheels," 40; "Hell Screen," 39, 2932;
"In a Grove," 39, 2932; Kappa, 40; "Memories Sent to an Old Friend," 40;
"Nose, The," 39; "Rashōmon," 38-39, 2932; "Spider's Thread, The," 39
Alarcón, Pedro Antonio de, 41-46; "Embrace at Vergara, The," 43; "Last Escapade, The," 44;
"Nail, The," 43; "Nun, The," 44; "Prophecy, The," 43; "Stub-Book, The," 45
"Albatross, The" (Lem), 1486
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 46-49; "Marjorie Daw," 47, 2781; "Struggle for Life, A," 48
Aleichem, Sholom, 50-54
"ALE-THIA" (Johnson, Charles), 1308
Alexie, Sherman, 55-58; "Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw
Jimi Hendrix Play the Star-Spangled Banner at Woodstock," 56-57; "Drug Called Tradition, A," 57;
"Every Little Hurricane," 57; Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, The, 56;
"Only Traffic Signal on the Reservation Doesn't Flash Red Any More, The," 57; Reservation Blues, 2967
Alf layla wa-layla. See Arabian Nights' Entertainments, The
Alfonsi, Petrus; Discipline clericalis, 2701
Algren, Nelson, 58-61; "Bottle of Milk for Mother, A," 60; "Design for Departure," 59;
"Face on the Barroom Floor, The," 60; "How the Devil Came Down Division Street," 60
Alguns Contos (Lispector), 1518
"Alice Addertongue" (Franklin), 905
"Alice Sydenham's First Ball" (Leprohon), 2899
"Alicia Who Sees Mice" (Cisneros), 581
"All Fires the Fire" (Cortázar), 646
"All He Needs Is Feet" (Himes), 1207
"All in a Maze" (Carr), 466
"All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye" (Boyle, Patrick), 2926
"All Sorts of Impossible Things" (McGahern), 1568
All Stories Are True (Wideman), 2514
"All Strange Away" (Beckett), 222
"All the Days of Our Lives" (Smith), 2183
"`All You Zombies--'" (Heinlein), 1162
Allegory, 2625, 3056. See also "Category Index"
Allen, Paula Gunn, 2961-2962, 2966; "Deer Woman," 2969; Song of the Turtle, 2962
Allen, Walter Ernest, 2608
Allen, Woody, 62-66; "Condemned, The," 65; "Kugelmass Episode, The," 64; "Mr. Big," 63
Allende, Isabel, 67-70; "Camino hacia el norte, Un," 69; Eva Luna, 67;
"Si me tocaras el corazón," 68; Stories of Eva Luna, The, 67; "Tosca," 68
"Alligators, The" (Updike), 2377
Allusion, 3056
"Almanac of Pain, An" (Dazai), 700
Almoran and Hamet (Hawkesworth), 1141
"Along Rideout Road That Summer" (Duggan), 2895
Alphabets and Birthdays (Stein), 2231
"Als der krieg zu ende war." See "As the War Ended"
"Altar of the Dead, The" (James, Henry), 1287
"Alternative, The" (Baraka), 167
"Amanuensis" (Godwin), 1015
"Amateur's Guide to the Night, An" (Robison), 2055
"Amazon, The" (Leskov), 1491
Ambiguity, 3056
"America! America!" (Schwartz, Delmore), 2115
America Is in the Heart (Bulosan), 2882
"American Couple, The" (Butler), 379
"American Dreams" (Carey), 454, 2891
American Ghosts and Old World Wonders (Carter), 471
American Indian Stories (Zitkala-Sa), 2964
American Visa (Ping), 2877
"Among the Dahlias" (Sansom), 2088
Among the Dahlias (Sansom), 2088
"Among the Impressionists" (Wiggins), 2517
"Among the Ruins" (Friel), 921
"Amos Barton" (Eliot), 817
"Amour." See "Love" (Colette)
"Amuck in the Bush" (Callaghan), 418
Amurath the Sultan (Hawkesworth), 1141
Anachronism, 3056
"Anaconda" (Quiroga), 2021
Anarchists' Convention, The (Sayles), 2104
Anaya, Rudolfo, 2950; Silence of the Llano, The, 2954
Ancient short fiction, 2657-2668
"And Both Shall Row" (Gates), 1533
. . . And the earth did not part (Rivera), 2042, 2954
"And the Rain Patters On" (Wang), 2444
"And the Soul Shall Dance" (Yamauchi), 2880
"And There Was the Evening and the Morning" (Böll), 274
Andersen, Hans Christian, 70-76; "Emperor's New Clothes, The," 74;
"Nightingale, The," 74; "Shadow, The," 72; "Snow Queen, The," 71
Anderson, Sherwood, 76-82; "Book of the Grotesque, The," 78; "Death in the Woods," 80;
"Egg, The," 81; "Godliness," 79; "Hands," 78; "I Am a Fool," 81; "Man Who Became a
Woman, The," 80; "Paper Pills," 80; "Philosopher, The," 78; "Corn Planting, The," 81;
"Sophistication," 80; "Strength of God, The," 79; "Teacher, The," 79; Winesburg, Ohio, 77
"Andrea" (O'Hara), 1834
Andreas, 2687
"Andreuccio of Perugia" (Boccaccio), 269
Anecdote, 3056
"Angel Levine" (Malamud), 1598
"Angel of the Lord, The" (Howells), 1236
"Angelina: Or, L'Amie Inconnue" (Edgeworth), 811
"Angélique" (Nerval), 1757
Angelou, Maya, 83-86; "Reunion, The," 84; "Steady Going Up," 83
Anglophone African short fiction, 2851
Animal-Lover's Book of Beastly Murder, The (Highsmith), 1196
"Anitachi." See "My Older Brothers"
"Anna, Part I" (Gilchrist), 995
"Anonymiad" (Barth), 179
"Another Texas Ghost Story" (Brautigan), 346
"Another Time" (O'Brien, Edna), 1784
"Answer Is No, The" (Mahfouz), 1589
"Ant" (Dybek), 805
Antagonist, 3056
Anthology, 3056
"Anthony Afterwit" (Franklin), 904
"Antique Love Story, An" (Gilliatt), 1000
Antistory. See "Category Index"
Antologia da ficcao Cabo-Verdiana contemmporanea (Lopes), 2847
Apartheid, 2854
Apes, William, 2962
Aphorism, 3056
Aporia, 3056
Apostrophe, 3056
Apple, Max, 86-89; "Free Agents," 88; "Oranging of America, The," 87; "Selling Out," 87;
"Walt and Will," 87
"Apple of Discord, The" (Humphrey), 1247
"Apple Tree, The" (Galsworthy), 946
Apples and Pears and Other Stories (Davenport), 687
Appropriation, 3056
"Approximations" (Simpson), 2155
"April" (Colette), 602
"Apropos of the Wet Snow" (Dostoevski), 2773
Apuleius, Lucius, 2664; Metamorphoses, 2664
"Aquatic Uncle, The" (Calvino), 426
"Arabesque: The Mouse" (Coppard), 642
Arabian Nights' Entertainments, The, 68, 2643, 2667, 2701, 2737
"Araby" (Joyce), 2918
Arbiter, Gaius Petronius. See Petronius
"Árbol, El." See "Tree, The" (Bombal)
Arcadia (Sidney), 2709, 2713
Archetectonics, 3057
Archetype, 3056-3057
"Arcturus" (Connell), 616
"Are You Too Late or Was I Too Early" (Collier), 609
"Area in the Cerebral Hemisphere, An" (Major), 1593
"Aren't You Happy for Me?" (Bausch), 204
"Argamak" (Babel), 132
Argentina. See "Geographical Index"
Argonautica (Rhodius), 2663
"Ark, The" (Zhang), 2581
Arkansas (Leavitt), 1467
Armstrong, Estelle; "Return, The," 2964
Arouet, François-Marie. See Voltaire
"Arrangement in Parents, An" (Hale), 1099
"Arrangements at the Gulf" (Stern), 2241
Arreola, Juan José, 89-95; "Baby H.P.," 93; "Bird Spider, The," 93; "Eve," 93;
"Prodigious Milligram, The," 92; "Small Town Affair," 93; "Switchman, The," 92
Art of Living and Other Stories, The (Gardner), 961
"Artemis the Honest Well Digger" (Cheever), 534
"Artificial Nigger, The" (O'Connor, Flannery), 1797
"Artist at Work, The" (Camus, Albert), 432
"Aru kyuyu e okuru shuki." See "Memories Sent to an Old Friend"
Arvin, Newton, 2775
"As Fine as Melanctha" (Stein), 2229
"As Margens da Alegria." See "Thin Edge of Happiness, The"
"As the War Ended" (Böll), 274
"Ashikari" (Tanizaki), 2285
Asian American culture, 2871-2887. See also "Category Index"
Asian American Movement, 2871
Asian culture, 2908, 2928, 2935. See also "Category Index"
"Asian Shore, The" (Disch), 746
Aside, 3057
Asimov, Isaac, 95-102; "Dead Past, The," 99; "Liar!," 97; "Martian Way, The," 98;
"Nightfall," 97, 2636
Aspects of the Novel (Forster), 2611
"Aspern Papers, The" (James, Henry), 1286
Assignation, The (Oates), 1777
"Dead Astronaut, The" (Ballard), 144
Astronomer and Other Stories, The (Betts), 253
Asturias, Miguel Ángel, 102-108, 2943; "Leyenda del sombrerón," 104; Leyendas
de Guatemala
, 104; Men of Maize, 104
"Asya" (Turgenev), 2356
"Asylum Piece" (Kavan), 1341
"At Kinosaki" (Shiga), 2933
"At Paso Rojo" (Bowles, Paul), 314
"At Sallygap" (Lavin), 1445
"At Sea" (Chekhov), 542
"At Sea" (Welch), 2467
"At the Anarchists' Convention" (Sayles), 2103
"At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers" (Rushdie), 2070
"At the Bay" (Mansfield), 1622
"At the Bottom of the Lake" (Broyard), 364
"At the Bottom of the River" (Kincaid), 1365
"At the Circus" (Sinyavsky), 2167
"At the Edge of the World" (Leskov), 1491
"At the Tolstoy Museum" (Barthelme, Donald), 187
"Athénaïse" (Chopin), 564
Atlakviða, 2686
Atmosphere, 3057
Atonement and Other Stories, The (Auchincloss), 122
"Atrocity Exhibition, The" (Ballard), 145
"Attack on the Mill, The" (Zola), 2587
"Attaque du Moulin, L'." See "Attack on the Mill, The"
Attila the Hun, 2685
Atwood, Margaret, 108-116, 2903; "Age of Lead, The," 113; "Bluebeard's Egg," 112;
"Dancing Girls," 110; "Giving Birth," 111; Good Bones and Simple Murders, 114;
"Man from Mars, The," 109; "Polarities," 111; "Significant Moments in the Life of My Mother," 112;
"Unearthing Suite," 112; Wilderness Tips, 113
"Au Pair" (Weldon), 2474
Auchincloss, Louis, 116-123; Atonement and Other Stories, The, 122; Fellow
Passengers
, 121; Injustice Collectors, The, 118; Partners, The, 121;
Powers of Attorney, 120; Romantic Egoists, The, 119; Second Chance, 121;
Tales of Manhattan, 120
Auden, W. H., 2765
Audun and the Bear, 2678
"Augsburg Chalk Circle, The" (Brecht), 351
"August Eschenburg" (Millhauser), 1683
"Aunt Rosana's Rocker" (Mohr), 2958
Aura (Fuentes), 926
"Aurelia Frequenzia Reveals the Heart and Mind of the Man of Destiny" (Stern), 2242
"Auschwitz, Our Home (A Letter)" (Borowski), 296
Austen, Jane, 123-127; "Evelyn," 125; "Frederic and Elfrida," 125; Lady Susan,
125; Love and Friendship, 125
Australia, 2888-2889, 2897; 1920-1940, 2890; 1960-1980, 2891; 1980-2000, 2891. See
also
"Geographical Index"
Autobiographical stories. See "Category Index"
"Autobiography" (Barth), 2829
"Autumn Day" (Gallant), 941
"Autumn Sunshine" (Trevor), 2925
"Average Waves in Unprotected Waters" (Tyler, Anne), 2367
"Avril." See "April"
"Avventura di una bagnante, L'." See "Adventure of a Bather, The"
"Awakening" (Babel), 130
"Axolotl" (Cortázar), 646
"Aye, and Gomorrah" (Delany), 710
"Ayor" (Leavitt), 1465
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B
Ba Jin, 2910
Babel, Isaac, 128-135, 2820; "Afonka Bida," 132; "Argamak," 132; "Awakening," 130;
"Berestechko," 132; "Childhood: At Grandmother's," 129; "Crossing into Poland," 131;
"Death of Dolgushov, The," 132, 2820; "Di Grasso," 130; "End of the Old Folks' Home, The," 131;
"Father, The," 130; "First Love," 129; "Gedali," 131; "How It Was Done in Odessa," 130;
"In the Basement," 130; "King, The," 130; "Letter, A," 131; "Lyubka the Cossack," 130;
"Mama, Rimma, and Alla," 133; "My First Goose," 132, 2820; "Rabbi, The," 132; Red Cavalry, 131;
"Salt," 132; "Sashka Khristov," 132; "Sin of Jesus, The," 133; "Story of My Dovecote, The," 129;
"Tale of a Woman, The," 133; Tales of Odessa, 130; "Widow, The," 133
Babe's Bed, The (Wescott), 2493
"Babette's Feast" (Dinesen), 742
Babouc (Voltaire), 2412
Babrius, 2627
"Baby" (Sontag), 2195
"Baby H.P." (Arreola), 93
"Babylon Revisited" (Fitzgerald), 868
"Babyproofing" (Slavin), 2172
"Babysitter, The" (Coover), 2829
Bacho, Peter, 2882; Dark Blue Suit and Other Stories, 2882
"Back for Christmas" (Collier), 607
Back in the World (Wolff), 2552
"Backseat" (Wideman), 2514
"Bad Man Blues" (Garrett), 973
Bad Man Blues (Garrett), 972
Bader, Arno Lehman, 2607
"Bagatelles, The" (Franklin), 2730
Bagombo Snuff Box (Vonnegut), 2421
Baihua short fiction, 2909, 2911
"Bailbondsman, The" (Elkin), 823
Bailey, H. C., 2618
"Balaam and His Master" (Harris, Joel Chandler), 1125
Balaam and His Master and Other Sketches and Stories (Harris, Joel Chandler), 1125
Baldeshwiler, Sister Mary Joselyn, 2606
Baldwin, James, 135-140, 161; "Going to Meet the Man," 137; "Man Child, The," 136;
"Sonny's Blues," 138
Baliverneries (Noël Du Fail), 2705
"Ball of Malt and Madame Butterfly, A" (Kiely), 1357
Ballad, 3057
"Ballad of the Flexible Bullet, The" (King), 1372
"Ballad of the Sad Café, The" (McCullers), 1560
Ballard, J. G., 141-147, 2639; "Atrocity Exhibition, The," 145; "Cage of Sand, The,"
143, 2639; "Concentration City," 143; "Dead Astronaut, The," 144; "Enormous Space, The," 145;
"Manhole Sixty-nine," 143; "Memories of the Space Age," 144; "Myths of the Near Future," 143;
"Overloaded Man, The," 145; "Terminal Beach, The," 144; "War Fever," 146
"Balloon, The" (Barthelme, Donald), 185, 2829
"Balloons'n Tunes" (Wiggins), 2518
"Balthasar" (France), 899
Balzac, Honoré de, 147-152, 2750; Droll Stories, 149; "Facino Cane," 150;
"Grande Bretèche, The," 149, 2750; "Unknown Masterpiece, The," 149
Bambara, Toni Cade, 152-156, 2869; "Gorilla, My Love," 154; Gorilla, My Love,
154, 2869; "Lesson, The," 155; "Medley," 155; "Raymond's Run," 154; "Talkin' `Bout Sonny," 2869
"Bang-Bang You're Dead" (Spark), 2199
Bank, Melissa, 156-159; "Advanced Beginners," 157; "Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, The,"
158; "Worst Thing a Suburban Girl Could Imagine, The," 158
Banks, Russell, 160-165; "Conversion, The," 162; "Custodian, The," 162; New World, The,
162; "Queen for a Day," 164; "Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story," 164; Searching for
Survivors
, 162; Success Stories, 164; Trailerpark, 163
Baotown (Wang), 2445
Baraka, Amiri, 165-169, 2867; "Alternative, The," 167; "Chase, A," 167; "Death of
Horatio Alger, The," 167; Native Son, 167; "Screamers, The," 167; Tales, 166;
"Uncle Tom's Cabin: Alternate Ending," 166
"Barbados" (Marshall), 1635
"Barbara of the House of Grebe" (Hardy), 1115
"Bardon Bus" (Munro), 1733
"Barishnya krestyanka." See "Squire's Daughter, The"
Barker, Clive, 2652
"Barn Burning" (Faulkner), 861
Barnes, Julian, 169-172, 2841; "Dragons," 170, 2841; "Evermore," 171;
"Hermitage," 171; "Interference," 170; "Tunnel," 171
"Baron of Patronia, The" (Vizenor), 2968
Barrett, Andrea, 173-175, 2840; "Behavior of the Hawkweeds, The," 173, 2840;
"Birds with No Feet," 174; "Littoral Zone, The," 174; "Ship Fever," 174
Barth, John, 176-181, 2828; "Anonymiad," 179; "Autobiography," 2829; "Lost in the
Funhouse, 178; Lost in the Funhouse, 176; "Night-Sea Journey, 177; On with the Story, 180
Barthelme, Donald, 182-190, 2829; "At the Tolstoy Museum," 187; "Balloon, The," 185, 2829;
"Glass Mountain, The," 188; "Indian Uprising, The," 185; "Leap, The," 187; "Me and Miss
Mandible," 184; "New Music, The," 188; "Nothing: A Preliminary Account," 188;
"Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning," 186; "Sentence," 188; "Shower of Gold, A," 184;
"Three Hermits, The," 187; "Views of My Father Weeping," 186
Barthelme, Frederick, 190-193; "Chroma," 192; "Driver," 192; "Safeway," 191;
"Shopgirls," 191
"Bartleby the Scrivener" (Melville), 1666, 2629, 2775
"Base of the Wall, The" (Wang), 2445
"Basement Room, The" (Greene, Graham), 1077, 2814
Bass, Rick, 194-197; "Fires," 195; "In the Loyal Mountains," 195; "Myths of Bears, The,"
196; "Watch, The," 195; "Wejumpka," 196
Bates, H. E., 197-203; Black Boxer, The, 200; Colonel Julian and Other
Stories
, 200; "Cowslip Field, The," 201; Daffodil Sky, The, 201; Day's End and
Other Stories
, 199; Flying Goat, The, 200; "Frontier, The," 201;
"Maker of Coffins, The," 201; My Uncle Silas, 200; Something Short and Sweet, 200;
Watercress Girl and Other Stories, The, 201
"Bath, The" (Carver), 2831
"Batorsag and Szerelem" (Canin), 436
Bats Out of Hell (Hannah), 1110
"Battle of Dorking, The" (Chesney), 2633
"Battle of Finney's Ford, The" (West), 2497
Battle of Maldon, 2686
"Battle Royal" (Ellison, Ralph), 2865
Bausch, Richard, 203-206; "Aren't You Happy for Me?," 204; "Brace, The," 205;
"Not Quite Final," 204; "Valor," 205
Baxter, Charles, 207-210; Believers, 209; "Fensted's Mother," 208; Harmony of
the World
, 208; "Relative Stranger, A," 208; Relative Stranger, A, 208
Baynton, Barbara, 2889; "Chosen Vessel, The," 2889; "Squeaker's Mate," 2889
"Beach of Falesá, The" (Stevenson), 2248
"Beantwortung einer anfrage." See "Response to a Request"
"Bear, The" (Faulkner), 860, 2804
"Bear and His Daughter" (Stone), 2257
Bear and His Daughter (Stone), 2255
Beard, Thomas; Theatre of Gods Judgements, The, 2719
"Bearded Lady, The" (Queen), 2014
"Bears in Mourning" (Mars-Jones), 1632
"Beast, The" (Brecht), 349
"Beast in the Jungle, The" (James, Henry), 1288
Beasts and Super-Beasts (Saki), 2074
"Beating" (Gates), 982
Beattie, Ann, 210-217, 2831; "Burning House, The," 2832; "Cinderella Waltz, The," 213;
"Dwarf House," 212; "Going Home With Uccello," 215; "Janus," 214, 2832;
"Lifeguard, The," 212; "Park City," 215; "Snow," 214; "Vintage Thunderbird, A," 212;
"Weekend," 2831; "Windy Day at the Reservoir," 215; "Winter: 1978," 213
"Beautiful Girl" (Adams), 12
"Beautiful Stranger, The" (Jackson), 1275
"Beautiful Vampire, The" (Gautier), 985
"Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play `The Star-Spangled Banner' at Woodstock" (Alexie), 56-57
"Because They Wanted To" (Gaitskill), 937
"Because We Are So Poor" (Rulfo), 2065
Beckett, Samuel, 218-224; "All Strange Away," 222; Company, 222; "End, The," 221;
"First Love," 220; "Imagination Dead Imagine," 222
Beckoning Fair One, The (Onions), 2649
Bede the Venerable, Saint, 2683; Ecclesiastical History of the English People, 2683
Beerbohm, Max, 225-229; "A. V. Laider," 2797; Christmas Garland, Woven by Max
Beerbohm, A
, 228; "Enoch Soames," 226; "Mote in the Middle Distance, H*nry J*m*s, The," 228;
"'Savonarola' Brown," 227; Seven Men, 226
"Before His Time" (Oz), 1862
"Before the Law" (Kafka), 1332
"Beggar, The" (Chekhov), 544
"Beggars, The" (O'Flaherty), 1830
"Beggarwoman of Locarno, The" (Kleist), 1404
"Beginning, The" (Grau), 1068
"Beginning of an Idea, The" (McGahern), 1568, 2924
"Beginning of Grief, The" (Woiwode), 2540
"Beginning of Homewood, The" (Wideman), 2512
"Behavior of the Hawkweeds, The" (Barrett), 173, 2840
Behn, Aphra, 2723; History of the Nun, The, 2723
Beitong zhidi (Wang), 2447
Bela e a fera, A (Lispector), 1520
Believe Them (Robison), 2056
Believers (Baxter), 209
Bell, Madison Smartt, 230-233; "Customs of the Country," 231; "Dragon's Seed," 232;
"Irene," 231; "Today Is a Good Day to Die," 231; "Triptych I," 230
"Bella-Vista" (Colette), 601
"Belle Zoraide, La" (Chopin), 564, 2787
Bellow, Saul, 233-239, 2812; Actual, The, 237; "Cousins," 237; "Gonzaga Manuscripts,
The," 235; Him with His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories, 236;
"Looking for Mr Green," 234; "Mosby's Memoirs," 236; Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories, 234;
Seize the Day, 2812; "Silver Dish, A," 237; What Kind of Day Did You Have?, 237
"Belye nochi." See "White Nights"
"Ben ci lie che zhong dian zhan." See "Destination"
Bender, Aimee, 239-242; "Call My Name," 240; "Dreaming in Polish," 241; "Ring, The," 241;
"Skinless," 241; "What You Left in the Ditch," 241
"Beneath the Shelter" (Mahfouz), 1588
Benét, Stephen Vincent, 242-248; "Devil and Daniel Webster, The," 244;
"Freedom's a Hard-Bought Thing," 245; "Johnny Pye and the Fool-Killer," 246
Bennett, Gwendolyn, 2863; "Tokens," 2863; "Typewriter, The," 2864; "Wedding Day," 2863
"Benson Watts Is Dead and in Virginia" (Betts), 255
Benson, E. F., 2650
Bentley, E. C.; Trent and the Last Case, 2617; Trent Intervenes, 2618
Beowulf, 2663
"Berestechko" (Babel), 132
Berriault, Gina, 248-251; "Bystander, The," 249; "Death of a Lesser Man," 250;
"Diary of K. W.," 250; "Infinite Passion of Expectation, The," 250; "Stone Boy, The," 250
"Bess" (Phillips), 1924
"Best Girlfriend You Never Had, The" (Houston), 1232
"Best Quality" (Tan), 2282
"Bestiary" (Cortázar), 645
Bet They'll Miss Us When We're Gone (Wiggins), 2517
Betrogene, Die. See Black Swan, The
"Bettelweib von Locarno, Das." See "Beggarwoman of Locarno, The"
Betts, Doris, 252-257; Astronomer and Other Stories, The, 253; "Benson Watts
Is Dead and in Virginia," 255; Gentle Insurrection and Other Stories, The, 252;
"Miss Parker Possessed," 253; "Spies in the Herb House, The," 255
"Between the Lines" (Smith, Lee), 2183
"Between Zero and One" (Gallant), 943
"Beverly Home" (Johnson, Denis), 1311
"Bewitched Jacket, The" (Buzzati), 384
"Beyond the Glass Mountain" (Stegner), 2222
"Beyond the Pale" (Kipling), 1390
"Beyond the Pale" (Trevor), 2925
"Bezhin Meadow" (Turgenev), 2355, 2772
Biafra, 5
Bible, 2626, 2658
"Biblioteca de Babel, La." See "Library of Babel, The"
Bierce, Ambrose, 257-262, 2601, 2649, 2758, 2788; "Chickamauga," 259, 2788;
"Damned Thing, The," 260; "Death of Halprin Frayser, The," 2649; Devil's Dictionary, The,
258; "Inhabitant of Carcosa, An," 2649; "Man and the Snake, The," 2788;
"Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, An," 258, 2788-2789; Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, 2649
Big Aiiieeeee!, The, 2872
Big Bad Love (Brown), 362
"Big Bertha Stories" (Mason), 1643, 2833
"Big Blonde" (Parker), 1885
"Big Garage, The" (Boyle, T. C.), 326
"Big Meeting" (Hughes), 1241
Big Sea, The (Hughes), 1238
"Biggest Band, The" (Cassill), 482
Bing Xin, 2910
"Bird in the House, A" (Laurence), 1441
Bird in the House, A (Laurence), 1441
"Bird Spider, The" (Arreola), 93
"Birds of God, The" (Couto), 2848
"Birds with No Feet" (Barrett), 174
"Birth" (Nin), 1762
"Birthday" (Louie), 2876
"Birthday" (Viramontes), 2957
"Birthmark, The" (Hawthorne), 1148
"Birthmark, The" (Kavan), 1340
"Bisclayret" (Marie de France), 1627
"Bishop's Fool, The" (Lewis), 1505
"Biter, The" (Steele), 2727
"Black Angels" (Friedman), 917
Black Arts movement, 2866
Black Boxer, The (Bates), 200
"Black Death" (Hurston), 2862
Black House, The (Highsmith), 1197
Black humor, 916, 3057
Black humor. See "Category Index"
"Black Is My Favorite Color" (Malamud), 1599
"Black Magic of Barney Haller, The" (Thurber), 2314
"Black Peril" (Plomer), 1939
Black Spirits and White (Cram), 2649
Black Swan, The (Mann), 1612
Black Venus (Carter), 471
"Black Winter" (Woiwode), 2542
"Blackberry Winter" (Warren), 2457
"Blackmailers Don't Shoot" (Chandler), 507
Blackwood, Algernon, 262-265, 2646, 2797; "Damned, The," 264; "Empty House, The," 263;
John Silence, 264; "Man Whom the Trees Loved, The," 264; "Willows, The," 264, 2797
"Blank Page, The" (Dinesen), 2817
"Bleeding Heart, The" (Stafford), 2210-2211
"Blessings" (Dubus), 2835
"Blind Love" (Pritchett), 1973
"Blind Man, The" (Lawrence), 1452
"Blind Man's Tale, A" (Tanizaki), 2285
"Blinder" (Gordimer), 1044
"Blindness" (Woiwode), 2542
Blish, James, 2638; "Surface Tension," 2638
"Bliss" (Mansfield), 1619
"Blizzard, The" (Pushkin), 2000
Blonde Eckbert, Der. See Fair Eckbert
"Blood-Burning Moon" (Toomer), 2337
"Bloodfall" (Boyle, T. C.), 326
Bloodline (Gaines), 930, 933
"Bloody Chamber, The" (Carter), 2841
"Blow-Up" (Cortázar), 647
"Blowups Happen" (Heinlein), 2636
"Blue and Green" (Woolf), 2556
Blue City (Macdonald), 2621
"Blue Cross, The" (Chesterton), 558
"Blue Dive" (Chappell), 516
"Blue Hotel, The" (Crane), 659, 2790
"Blue Island" (Powers), 1959
"Blue Kimono, The" (Callaghan), 419
"Blue Lick" (Offutt), 1824
"Bluebeard's Egg" (Atwood), 112
"Bluebell Meadow" (Kiely), 1360
"Blundell's Improvement" (Jacobs), 1281
"Blush, The" (Taylor, Elizabeth), 2293
"Bob, A Dog" (Smith), 2184
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 266-271, 2702; "Andreuccio of Perugia," 269; "Cisti the Baker," 269;
Decameron, The, 268, 2702; "Ser Cepparelo," 269
Bödeln. See Hangman, The
Bodkin, M. McDonnell, 2615
"Body, The" (King), 1371
Böll, Heinrich, 272-277; "And There Was the Evening and the Morning," 274; "As the
War Ended," 274; "Breaking the News," 275; "Murke's Collected Silences," 274;
"My Expensive Leg," 275; "Stranger, Bear Word to the Spartans We . . . ," 275;
"Waiting-Room, The," 276
Bombal, María Luisa, 278-281; "Braids," 279; "Final Mist, The," 278; "New Islands," 280;
"Tree, The," 279; "Unknown, The," 279
"Bones of Louella Brown, The" (Petry), 1921
Bontemps, Arna, 281-285; "Talk to the Music," 284
"Bontshe the Silent" (Peretz), 1908
"Book Buyers, The" (Kinsella), 1383
Book of Martyrs, The (Foxe), 2718
Book of Settlements (Thorgilsson), 2671
Book of the Duchess (Chaucer), 520
"Book of the Grotesque, The" (Anderson), 78
Book of the Icelanders (Thorgilsson), 2671
"Book That Was Lost, A" (Agnon), 27
Book That Was Lost and Other Stories, A (Agnon), 26
Borges, Jorge Luis, 285, 294, 2652, 2822, 2942; "Circular Ruins, The," 290;
"Death and the Compass," 289; "Funes the Memorious," 2822; "Garden of Forking Paths, The," 290;
"Library of Babel, The," 2823; "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote," 291, 2822;
"South, The," 291; "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius," 2823
"Boring Story, A" (Chekhov), 545
Borowski, Tadeusz, 295-299; "Auschwitz, Our Home (A Letter)," 296; "Day at Harmenz," 297;
"Silence," 298; "Supper, The," 298; "This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen," 297;
"World of Stone," 298
Borrowed Time (Rasputin), 2025
"Boston" (Harjo), 1119
Boswell, James, 1314
"Botschaft, Die." See "Breaking the News"
"Bottle of Milk for Mother, A" (Algren), 60
"Bottle Party" (Collier), 609
Boudinot, Elias, 2962
"Boule de Suif" (Maupassant), 1655
"Bound Man, The" (Aichinger), 30
Bowen, Elizabeth, 300-306, 2605, 2922; Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen, The, 2922;
"Demon Lover, The," 303, 2922; "Her Table Spread," 301, 2922; "Summer Night," 301
Bowles, Jane, 306-310; "Camp Cataract," 308; "Day in the Open, A," 307;
"Everything Is Nice," 309; "Guatemalan Idyll, A," 307; "Plain Pleasures," 308;
"Stick of Green Candy, A," 309
Bowles, Paul, 311-317, 2652; "At Paso Rojo," 314; "Delicate Prey, The," 314;
"Distant Episode, A," 313; "Echo, The," 313; "Pages from Cold Point," 313;
"Tapiama," 314; Too Far from Home, 315
"Bowmen, The" (Machen), 1576
"Box, The" (Endō), 845
"Box Seat" (Toomer), 2338
"Boxes" (Carver), 478
"Boy of Pergamum, The" (Petronius), 1912
Boy Without a Flag, The (Rodriguez), 2958
Boyle, Kay, 317-324; "Wedding Day," 319; "White Horses of Vienna, The," 320;
"Winter Night," 322
Boyle, Patrick; "All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye," 2926
Boyle, T. Coraghessan, 325-330, 2836; "Big Garage, The," 326; "Bloodfall," 326;
"Carnal Knowledge," 329; "Filthy with Things," 329; "Hector Quesadilla Story, The," 328;
"Overcoat II, The, 327; "Sorry Fugu," 328; T. C. Boyle Stories, 329;
"Two Ships," 327; Without a Hero, 329
"Brace, The" (Bausch), 205
Bradbury, Ray, 331-341, 2637, 2652; Dark Carnival, 335; Golden Apples of the
Sun, The
, 336; I Sing the Body Electric!, 338; Illustrated Man, The, 336;
Long After Midnight, 338; Machineries of Joy, The, 337; Martian
Chronicles, The
, 335, 2637; Medicine for Melancholy, A, 337; "Next in Line, The," 335;
October Country, The, 337; Quicker than the Eye, 339; Stories of
Ray Bradbury, The
, 338; "Third Expedition, The," 336; Toynbee Convector, The, 338
"Braids" (Bombal), 279
Bramah, Ernest, 2614
"Branch Road, A" (Garland), 966
Brant, Beth; "Coyote Learns a New Trick," 2969
, 341-347; "Another Texas Ghost Story," 346; "Cleveland Wrecking
Yard, The," 344; "Corporal," 345; "Kool-Aid Wino, The," 344; "Menu/1965, The," 346;
"Revenge of the Lawn," 344; Tokyo-Montana Express, The, 345; Trout Fishing in
America
, 343; "Trout Fishing on the Bevel," 344; "Werewolf Raspberries," 346;
"World War I Los Angeles Airplane, The," 345
"Brave and Cruel" (Welch), 2469
Brave Little Toaster, The (Disch), 747
Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars, The (Disch), 747
"Brazil" (Marshall), 1636
Brazilian culture, 2936. See also "Geographical Index"
Bread of Salt and Other Stories, The (Gonzalez), 2882
"Breaking the News" (Böll), 275
Brecht, Bertolt, 348-354; "Augsburg Chalk Circle, The," 351; "Beast, The," 349;
"Caesar and His Legionnaire," 350; "Wounded Socrates, The," 350
"Brethren" (Bunin), 374
"Breton Innkeeper, A" (Lewis), 1504
Briar Rose (Coover), 636
"Bride, The" (Chekhov), 547
"Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, The" (Crane), 659
"Bridge of Dreams, The" (Tanizaki), 2285, 2933
"Bridle, The" (Carver), 477
"Brief an einen besteller von novellen." See "Letter to a Commissioner of Novellas"
"Brief Fall, A" (Woiwode), 2541
"Brigadier and the Golf Widow, The" (Cheever), 538
"Brim Beauvais" (Stein), 2230
"British Guiana" (Marshall), 1636
"Britva." See "Razor, The"
"Broadsheet Ballad, A" (Coppard), 640
Broadside ballad, 3057
Brocade Valley (Wang), 2446
Brodkey, Harold, 354-359; "Bullies," 358; "Ceil," 357; First Love and Other Sorrows,
356; "Innocence," 356-357; "Sentimental Education," 356; "Waking," 358; World Is the
Home of Love and Death, The
, 358
"Brokeback Mountain" (Proulx), 1981, 2840
"Broken Homes" (Trevor), 2344
"Bromeliads" (Williams, Joy), 2522
"Brooklyn" (Marshall), 1636
Brooks, Cleanth; Understanding Fiction, 2607
"Brother Frank's Gospel Hour" (Kinsella), 1387
"Brother Jacob" (Eliot), 818
Brown, Larry, 360-363; Big Bad Love, 362; "End of Romance, The," 361; Facing the
Music
, 361; "Waiting for the Ladies," 362
Brown Dog (Harrison), 1130
Broyard, Bliss, 363-366; "At the Bottom of the Lake," 364; "Day in the Country, A," 365;
"Loose Talk," 365; "Mr. Sweetly Indecent," 364; "My Father, Dancing," 364; My Father,
Dancing
, 364; "Snowed In," 365; "Trouble with Mr. Leopold, The," 365; "Ugliest Faces," 365
Brunetière, Ferdinand, 2749
"Brush Fire" (Cain), 401
"Brushwood Boy, The" (Kipling), 1391
"Bubba Stories, The" (Smith), 2185
Buck, Pearl S., 366-372; "Enemy, The," 368; "Good Deed, The," 369; "Hearts Come Home," 369
"Buck in the Hills, The" (Clark), 585
"Bucket Rider, The" (Kafka), 1332
"Buczacz" (Agnon), 27
"Bud Parrot" (Robison), 2054
Buddhism, 2908
Budō denraiki (Ihara Saikaku), 1265
"Buenaventura, Le." See "Prophecy, The"
"Buffalo" (Reid), 2029
"Bufords, The" (Spencer), 2205
Buke giri monogatari. See Tales of Samurai Honor
"Bull" (Kinsella), 1386
Bulletin, 2888
"Bullies" (Brodkey), 358
Bulosan, Carlos, 2882; America Is in the Heart, 2882
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward; "Haunted and the Haunters, The," 2770
"Bums in the Attic" (Cisneros), 581
Bunch, David R., 2640
"Bunchgrass Edge of the World, The" (Proulx), 1982
Bunin, Ivan, 372-377; "Brethren," 374; "Gentleman from San Francisco, The," 375;
"Grammar of Love," 374; "Son, The," 374
"Burial" (Woiwode), 2541
Burlesque, 3057
"Burning House, The" (Beattie), 2832
"But at the Stroke of Midnight" (Warner), 2453
Butler, Robert Olen, 377-380; "American Couple, The," 379; "Crickets," 378;
"Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, A," 379; Tabloid Dreams, 379;
"Titanic Victim Speaks Through Waterbed," 379
Buzzati, Dino, 381-386; "Bewitched Jacket, The," 384; "Catastrophe," 384;
"Colomber, The," 384; "Count's Wife, The," 385; "Scala Scare, The," 383;
"Seven Floors," 383; "Seven Messengers," 383; "Suicidio al parco," 384
Byatt, A. S., 387-390, 2840; "Glass Coffin, The," 389; "Lamia in the Cévennes, A," 389;
"Medusa's Ankles," 388, 2840; "Sugar," 388
Byers, Michael, 390-393, 2839; "Dirigibles," 391; "Fair Trade, A," 392; "In Spain,
One Thousand and Three," 392; "Settled on the Cranberry Coast," 391, 2839;
"Shipmates Down Under," 392
"Bystander, The" (Berriault), 249

C
Cable, George Washington, 394-400, 2779; "Jean-ah Poquelin," 397, 2780;
"Posson Jone," 2779; "'Sieur George," 395, 2780
Cadalso y Vásquez, José de; Cartas marruecas, 2733
"Caesar and His Legionnaire" (Brecht), 350
"Cage of Sand, The" (Ballard), 143, 2639
Cain, James M., 400-403; "Brush Fire," 401
Cakewalk (Smith), 2183
Caldwell, Erskine, 404-409; "Candy-Man Beechum," 407; "Growing Season, The," 406;
"Kneel to the Rising Sun," 406; "Saturday Afternoon," 406
Calisher, Hortense, 409-415; "If You Don't Want to Live I Can't Help You," 411;
"In Greenwich There Are Many Gravelled Walks," 410; "Middle Drawer, The," 412; Novellas of
Hortense Calisher, The, 413
"Call My Name" (Bender), 240
"Call of Cthulhu, The" (Lovecraft), 1537
Callaghan, Morley, 415-422, 2901; "Amuck in the Bush," 418; "Blue Kimono, The," 419;
"Cap for Steve, A," 421; "Cheat's Remorse, The," 420; "Country Passion, A," 417;
"Escapade, An," 418; In His Own Country, 418; Lost and Found Stories of
Morley Callaghan, The
, 421; Morley Callaghan's Stories, 420; Now That April's Here and
Other Stories
, 419; "Predicament, A," 418; "Sick Call, A," 420; "Wedding Dress, A," 418
Calvino, Italo, 423-428; "Adam, One Afternoon," 425; "Adventure of a Bather, The," 425;
"Aquatic Uncle, The," 426; "Crow Comes Last, The," 425; "Games Without End," 426
"Camberwell Beauty, The" (Pritchett), 1974
"Cambio de armas." See "Other Weapons"
"Camino hacia el norte, Un" (Allende), 69
"Camionista, Il." See "Lorry Driver, The"
"Camp Cataract" (Bowles, Jane), 308
Campbell, John W., Jr., 2635, 2637
Campbell, Ramsey, 2652
Campomanes, Oscar, 2881
Camus, Albert, 429-433, 2819; "Adulterous Woman, The," 430; "Artist at Work, The," 432;
"Growing Stone, The," 431; "Guest, The," 430, 2819; "Renegade, The," 432;
"Silent Men, The," 432
Camus, Jean-Pierre; Dorothée, 2719; Palombre, 2719
Canada, 2898-2907;
1880-1900, 2900; French speaking, 2899, 2902; early 1900's, 2901; mid-1900's, 2902;
1970-1990, 2904. See also "Geographical Index"
Canby, Henry Seidel, 2600, 2603-2605; Short Story in English, The, 2600
Cancerqueen (Landolfi), 1430
Candide (Voltaire), 2412
"Candy-Man Beechum" (Caldwell), 407
Cane (Toomer), 2335-2339
Canin, Ethan, 434-437; "Accountant," 435; "Batorsag and Szerelem," 436; "City of
Broken Hearts," 436; Emperor of the Air, 434; Palace Thief, The, 435;
"Star Food," 435; "Year of Getting to Know Us, The," 435
Canon, 3057
Canonize, 3057
Cantar de ciegos (Fuentes), 926
Canterbury Tales, The (Chaucer), 524, 2704. See also "Knight's Tale, The,"
"Miller's Tale, The," and "Reeve's Tale, The"
Cantilena of St. Eulalia, 2688
"Cantleman's Spring-Mate" (Lewis), 1504, 1506
"Cap for Steve, A" (Callaghan), 421
Čapek, Karel, 437-441; Fairy Tales, 439; Money and Other Stories, 439;
"Scandal and the Press, A," 439; "Tribunal," 439
Capellanus, 2696
"Capital Girl, A" (Fuentes), 927
Capote, Truman, 441-445; "Master Misery," 443; "Tree of Night, A," 442
Captain Maximus (Hannah), 1110
"Car Crash While Hitchhiking" (Johnson, Denis), 1311
Card, Orson Scott, 446-451; "Kingsmeat," 447; Magic Mirror, 449;
"Porcelain Salamander, The," 448
Cardiff Team, The (Davenport), 689
Carey, Peter, 451-454; "American Dreams," 454, 2891; "Do You Love Me?," 452;
"Fat Man in History,The," 453; "Kristu-Du," 452; "Withdrawal," 453
"Cariboo Cafe, The" (Viramontes), 2405, 2956
Caricature, 3057
Carleton, William, 455-460, 2915; "Lough Derg Pilgrim, The," 457; "Phelim O'Toole's
Courtship," 457; "Three Tasks, The," 456; "Tubber Derg," 458; "Wildgoose Lodge," 2915
Carmen (Mérimée), 1673
"Carmilla" (Le Fanu), 1472
"Carnal Knowledge" (Boyle, T. C.), 329
Carpentier, Alejo, 460-464, 2943; "Like the Night," 461
Carr, John Dickson, 464-468; "All in a Maze," 466; "Door to Doom, The," 466;
"Incautious Burglar, The," 467; "Invisible Hands," 467; "Shadow of the Goat, The," 466
Cartas marruecas (Cadalso y Vásquez), 2733
Carter, Angela, 469-472, 2652, 2840; American Ghosts and Old World Wonders,
471; Black Venus, 471; "Bloody Chamber, The," 2841; "Company of Wolves, The," 470;
"Reflections," 470
Cartesian Sonata (Gass), 979
Carver, Raymond, 472-480, 2830; "Bath, The," 2831; "Boxes," 478; "Bridle, The," 477;
"Cathedral," 2831; "Fat," 474; "Neighbors," 475, 2830; "Small, Good Thing, A," 2831;
"Where I'm Calling From," 477; "Why Don't You Dance?," 476, 2830
"Case for Lombroso, A" (Norris), 1768
"Case of the Discontented Husband, The" (Christie), 576
"Case of the Discontented Soldier, The" (Christie), 576
"Case of the Missing Lady, The" (Christie), 576
Casey, Gavin, 2890; "Short-Shift Saturday," 2890
"Cask of Amontillado, The" (Poe), 2765
Cassill, R. V., 481-485; "Biggest Band, The," 482; "Crime of Mary Lynn Yager, The," 483;
"Sunday Painter, The," 483
Cassirer, Ernst, 2759
Castle of Otranto, The (Walpole), 2643, 2729, 2756
Castle Rackrent (Edgeworth), 2914
"Casualty" (Lessing), 1499
"Catalogue of the Exhibition: The Art of Edmund Moorash (1810-1846)" (Millhauser), 1684
"Catastrophe" (Buzzati), 384
"Catch, The" (Ōe), 1811
"Cathedral" (Carver), 2831
Cather, Willa, 485-490; "Neighbor Rosicky," 488; "Paul's Case," 487, 2790;
"Sculptor's Funeral, The," 486; "Uncle Valentine," 488
"Cavalleria rusticana." See "Rustic Chivalry"
"Cave, The" (Zamyatin), 2576
Caxton, William; Aesop, 2628
"Ceci n'est pas un conte." See "This Is Not a Story"
"Ceil" (Brodkey), 357
"Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The" (Twain), 2361
"Celestial Omnibus, The" (Forster), 889
"Celestina" (Moravia), 1706
Celestina, La (Rojas), 2720
"Celia Single" (Franklin), 904
Cena Trimalchionis (Petronius), 1912-1913
"Census Taker, The" (Oates), 1774
Cent nouvelles nouvelles, Les. See One Hundred Merrie and Delightsome Stories
Ceremony (Silko), 2960
Certain Tragical Discourses (Fenton), 2711
Cervantes, Miguel de, 491-499, 2706, 2721; "Colloquy of the Dogs," 494; Exemplary
Novels
, 493, 2706, 2720; "Glass Scholar, The," 496
Chabon, Michael, 499-505; "Little Knife, The," 503; "Model World, A," 501; "S ANGEL," 500;
"Werewolves in Their Youth," 504
"Chac Mool" (Fuentes), 925
Chaereas and Callirhoe (Chariton), 2666
"Chain of Love, A" (Price), 1963
"Chair of Tears, The" (Vizenor), 2408
Chambers, Robert W., 2649; "Repairer of Reputations, The," 2649
"Chameleon, The" (Chekhov), 542
"Champion" (Lardner), 1435
Chan, Jeffrey, 2875; "Chinese in Haifa, The," 2875; "Jackrabbit," 2875
Chandler, Raymond, 505-510, 2617; "Blackmailers Don't Shoot," 507; "Guns at Cyrano's,"
508; "Red Wind," 508
Chang, Lan Samantha, 511-514; "Eve of the Spirit Festival, The," 512; Hunger,
511; "Pippa's Story," 512; "Unforgetting, The," 512
"Chao-ch'âng hu." See "Tiger of Zhaochang, The"
Chappell, Fred, 514-518; "Blue Dive," 516; "Linnaeus Forgets," 517; "Lodger, The," 516;
"Maker of One Coffin, The," 515; "Moments of Light," 516; More Shapes than One, 516;
"Somewhere Doors, The," 517
Character type, 3057
Chariton; Chaereas and Callirhoe, 2666
"Chase (Alighieri's Dream), A" (Baraka), 167
"Chaser, The" (Collier), 607-608
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 518-531, 2628, 2704; Book of the Duchess, 520; Canterbury
Tales, The
, 524, 2704; "Clerk's Tale, The," 528; "Complaint of Mars, The," 519;
"Franklin's Tale, The," 529; Hous of Fame, 520; "Knight's Tale, The," 525;
Legend of Good Women, 522; "Merchant's Tale, The," 529; "Miller's Tale, The," 526;
"Nun's Priest's Tale, The," 527; "Prioresss Tale, The," 527; "Reeve's Tale, The," 527;
Troilus and Criseyde, 522
Chavez, Denise, 2956; Last of the Menu Girls, The, 2956
Chavez, Fray Angelico, 2952
"Chawdron" (Huxley), 1258
"Cheat's Remorse, The" (Callaghan), 420
Cheever, John, 532-540, 2810, 2827, 2857; "Artemis the Honest Well Digger," 534;
"Brigadier and the Golf Widow, The," 538; "Country Husband, The," 537; "Death of Justina, The,"
537; "Enormous Radio, The," 534, 2810; "Five-Forty-Eight, The," 536; "Goodbye, My Brother," 535;
"Miscellany of Characters That Will Not Appear in My Next Novel, A," 533; "O Youth and
Beauty," 536; "Swimmer, The," 538, 2827
"Chef-d'œuvre inconnu, Le." See "Unknown Masterpiece, The"
Chekhov, Anton, 540-549, 2606, 2794-2796; "At Sea," 542; "Beggar, The," 544;
"Boring Story, A," 545; "Bride, The," 547; "Chameleon, The," 542; "Chorus Girl, The," 543;
"Darling, The," 547; "Death of a Government Clerk, The," 542; "Duel, The," 545; "Fly, The," 2800;
"Letter to a Learned Neighbor, A," 542; "Meeting, The," 544; "Melyuzga," 543; "Misery," 2795;
"Night Before the Trial, The," 543; "Rothschild's Fiddle," 546; "Sergeant Prishibeev," 543;
"Sleepy," 2795; "Steppe, The," 544
"Chelkash" (Gorky), 1057
Cheng Naishan, 2911
Chéri (Colette), 2818
Chesney, George T.; "Battle of Dorking, The," 2633
Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 549-555, 2858; "Cicely's Dream," 554; Conjure Woman,
The
, 2858; "Conjurer's Revenge, The," 552; "Goophered Grapevine, The," 551, 2858;
"Matter of Principle, A," 2859; "Passing of Grandison, The," 553; "Po' Sandy," 551;
"Sheriff's Children, The," 2858; "Uncle Wellington's Wives," 553, 2859; "Wife of His Youth, The," 552
Chesterton, G. K., 556-562; "Blue Cross, The," 558; "Eye of Apollo, The," 558;
"Hammer of God, The," 559; "Secret Garden, The," 559; "Secret of Father Brown, The," 558
"Chèvrefeuille." See "Honeysuckle, The"
Chicano, 2949. See also Latino culture, Hispanic
Chicano Movement, 2953
"Chickamauga" (Bierce), 259, 2788
"Child, The" (Walser), 2439
"Child of God, The" (O'Flaherty), 1828
"Child of Queen Victoria, The" (Plomer), 1938
"Child That Went with the Fairies, The" (Le Fanu), 2645
"Child Who Favored Daughter, The" (Walker), 2431
Childhood and Other Neighborhoods (Dybek), 804
"Childhood: At Grandmother's" (Babel), 129
"Childhood of a Boss" (Sartre), 2099
"Childhood of Luvers, The" (Pasternak), 1889
"Children of the Great" (Lewis), 1506
"Children's Campaign, The" (Lagerkvist), 1422
Childress, Alice, 2868; Like One of the Family, 2869
Childs, Margaret Helen; Rethinking Sorrow, 2930
"Child's Play" (Higuchi), 2931
"Childybawn" (O'Faoláin), 1818, 2920
Chin, Frank, 2872, 2874; Chinaman Pacific and Frisco R.R. Co., 2874;
"Come All Ye Asian American Writers of the Real and the Fake," 2872
China, 2908-2913. See also "Geographical Index"
"China" (Johnson, Charles), 1308
China Men (Kingston), 1380
"Chinaman, The" (Wideman), 2511
Chinaman Pacific and Frisco R.R. Co. (Chin), 2874
Chinese American culture, 2873, 2876. See also "Category Index"
"Chinese in Haifa, The" (Chan), 2875
"Chip of Glass Ruby, A" (Gordimer), 1042
Chopin, Kate, 562-567, 2787; "Athénaïse," 564; "Belle Zoraide, La," 564, 2787;
"Désirée's Baby," 564, 2787; "Madame Celestin's Divorce," 2787; "Storm, The," 565;
"Story of an Hour, The," 563
"Chorus Girl, The" (Chekhov), 543
"Chosen Vessel, The" (Baynton), 2889
Chrétien de Troyes, 567-572; Cligés, 570; Erec and Enide, 568; Guillaume
d'Angleterre
, 569; Lancelot, 569, 2695; Perceval, 570; Yvain, 569
Christ, Jesus, 2661
Christian Hero, The (Steele, Richard), 2216
"Christian Trevalga" (Symons), 2797
Christie, Agatha, 572-579, 2618; "Affair at the Bungalow, The," 576; "Case of the
Discontented Husband, The," 576; "Case of the Discontented Soldier, The," 576;
"Case of the Missing Lady, The," 576; "In a Glass Darkly," 575; Labours of Hercules, 2620;
Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective, 2620; Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The, 2619;
Mysterious Mr. Quin, The, 575, 2620; "Mystery of the Blue Jar, The," 574;
Partners in Crime, 576, 2619; Poirot Investigates, 2619; "Red Signal, The," 574;
"Triangle at Rhodes," 577; "Where There's a Will," 575
Christmas Carol, A (Dickens), 729
"Christmas Client, The" (Hoch), 1214
Christmas Garland, Woven by Max Beerbohm, A (Beerbohm), 228
"Christmas Tree and a Wedding, A" (Dostoevski), 763
"Chroma" (Barthelme, Frederick), 192
Chronicle, 3057
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (García Márquez), 954
"Chrysanthemums (Steinbeck), 2236
Chughtai, Ismat, 2976
"Cicely's Dream" (Chesnutt), 554
"Cinderella" (Grimm), 1090
"Cinderella Waltz, The" (Beattie), 213
Cinnamon Shops (Schulz), 2108
"Circling Hand, The" (Kincaid), 2870
"Circular Ruins, The" (Borges), 290
"Circus, The" (Porter), 1953
"Circus in the Attic, The" (Warren), 2458
Cisneros, Sandra, 579-584, 2955; "Alicia Who Sees Mice," 581; "Bums in the Attic," 581;
"Ednas Ruthie," 581; "Eleven," 582; "Eyes of Zapata," 2955; House on Mango Street, The, 580;
"Little Miracles, Kept Promises," 2950; "Minerva Writes Poems," 581; "Never Marry a Mexican," 583;
"One Holy Night," 582; "Red Clowns," 582; "Those Who Don't," 581; "Three Sisters, The," 582;
"Woman Hollering Creek," 583, 2956; Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, 582, 2955
"Cisti the Baker" (Boccaccio), 269
Citizen of the World, The (Goldsmith), 1034
"City, The" (Updike), 2383
"City Boy" (Michaels), 1677
"City of Broken Hearts" (Canin), 436
"City of the Dead, a City of the Living, A" (Gordimer), 1044
City of the Living and Other Stories, The (Stegner), 2222
"Civil Peace" (Achebe), 7, 2852
Clarey, Jo Ellyn; Short Story Theory at a Crossroads, 2608
Clark, Walter Van Tilburg, 585-590; "Buck in the Hills, The," 585; "Hook," 588;
"Indian Well, The," 588; "Portable Phonograph, The," 587; Track of the Cat, The, 588
Clarke, Arthur C., 590-596; "Hammer of God, The," 594; "Meeting with Medusa, A," 593;
"Nine Billion Names of God, The," 593; "Rescue Party," 591; "Sentinel, The," 592; "Star, The," 593
Classic, 3058
Classicism, 3058
Clavijo y Fajardo, José; Pensador, El, 2732
"Clavo, El." See "Nail, The"
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne. See Twain, Mark
"Clerk's Quest, The" (Moore, George), 2801
"Clerk's Tale, The" (Chaucer), 528
"Cleveland Wrecking Yard, The" (Brautigan), 344
Cligés (Chrétien de Troyes), 570
Climax, 3058
Close Range: Wyoming Stories (Proulx), 1981
"Closed Door, The" (Donoso), 758
"Cloud, The" (Fowles), 895
"Cloud, Castle, Lake" (Nabokov), 1742
"Clouk" (Colette), 599
"Clytie" (Welty), 2808
"Coach" (Robison), 2055
Coast of Chicago, The (Dybek), 804
"Cock Robin, Beale Street" (Hurston), 1253
"Code of a Herdsman, The" (Lewis), 1506
"Cœur simple, Un." See "Simple Heart, A"
Cofer, Judith Ortiz, 2958
"Coffin on the Hill, The" (Welch), 2467
Cogewea, the Halfblood (Humishuma), 2964
"Cogwheels" (Akutagawa), 40
"Cohorts" (Gold), 1032
"Cold Ground Was My Bed Last Night" (Garrett), 970
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 2757, 2786
Colette, 597-604, 2818; "Accompanist, The," 601; "April," 602; "Bella-Vista," 601;
Chéri, 2818; "Clouk," 599; "Fenice, La," 601; "Kepi, The," 602; Last of Chéri, The,
2818; "Lola," 601; "Love," 600; "Matinée," 601; "Misfit, The," 601; "Monsieur Maurice," 601;
"Sick Child, The," 602; "Tender Shoot, The," 600; "Tendrils of the Vine, The," 600
"Collaboration" (Collier), 609
Collected Ancient Greek Novels (Reardon), 2665
Collected Short Prose of James Agee, The (Agee), 20
Collected Stories, The (Paley), 1875
Collected Stories, The (Price), 1966
Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen, The (Bowen), 2922
Collected Stories of Evan S. Connell, The (Connell), 618
Collected Stories of Jean Stafford, The (Stafford), 2209
Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant, The (Gallant), 942
Collection of Tales from Uji, A, 2929
"Collector of Treasures, The" (Head), 1153
Collector of Treasures and Other Botswana Village Tales, The (Head), 1153, 2854
Collier, John, 605-611, 2650; "After the Ball," 607; "Ah, the University!," 609;
"Are You Too Late or Was I Too Early," 609; "Back for Christmas," 607; "Bottle Party," 609;
"Chaser, The," 608; "Collaboration," 609; "De Mortuis," 607; Devil and All, The, 606;
"Evening Primrose," 608; Fancies and Goodnights, 608; "Frog Prince, The," 609;
"Gavin O'Leary," 608; "Green Thoughts," 608; "Halfway to Hell," 606, 609;
"Incident on a Lake," 607; "Invisible Dove Dancer of Strathpheen Island, The," 609;
"Lady on the Grey, The," 608; "Little Momento," 608; "Matter of Taste, A," 607;
"Midnight Blue," 609; "Old Acquaintance," 609; "Over Insurance," 607; Pictures in
the Fire
, 607; "Possession of Angela Bradshaw, The," 606; "Right Side, The," 606;
"Seasons of Mists," 609; "Steel Cat, The," 609; "Think No Evil," 608; "Three Bears Cottage," 607;
"Touch of Nutmeg Makes It, The," 610; "Variation on a Theme," 609; "Without Benefit of Galsworthy," 608
Collins, Wilkie; "Traveler's Story of a Terribly Strange Bed, The," 2770
"Colloquy of the Dogs" (Cervantes), 494
Colomba (Mérimée), 1672
"Colomber, The" (Buzzati), 384
Colonel Julian and Other Stories (Bates), 200
"Colonel's Awakening, The" (Dunbar), 2860
Colonialism, 2849, 2936, 2938, 2940, 2944-2945, 2973. See also "Category Index"
"Color of Darkness" (Purdy), 1993
Color of Darkness (Purdy), 1993
Color Purple, The (Walker), 2867
Colored American Magazine, 2859
Columbus, Christopher, 2939
"Come All Ye Asian American Writers of the Real and the Fake" (Chin), 2872
"Come on Back" (Gardner), 961
"Come On, Ye Sons of Art" (Ozick), 1874
"Comedian, The" (L'Heureux), 1512
"Comendadora, La." See "Nun, The"
"Comfort" (Kaplan), 1337
Comic story, 3058
"Coming Attractions" (Wolff), 2552
"Coming of the Christ-Child, The" (Head), 1154
Coming to Terms with the Short Story (Lohafer), 2608
Command and I Will Obey You (Moravia), 1707
"Communist" (Ford), 2833
Company (Beckett), 222
"Company of the Dead, The" (Price), 1966
"Company of Wolves, The" (Carter), 470
"Complaint of Mars, The" (Chaucer), 519
"Completed" (Williams, Tennessee), 2527
Compromise, The (Dovlatov), 773
Conceit, 3058
"Concentration City" (Ballard), 143
"Condemned, The" (Allen), 65
"Condemned Librarian, The" (West), 2498
"Confessionals" (Woiwode), 2542
"Confessions of Fitz-Boodle" (Thackeray), 2303
"Confidences de Nicolas, Les" (Nerval), 1757
Conflict, 3058
Congreve, William, 611-614; Incognita, 612, 2724
Conjure Woman, The (Chesnutt), 2858
"Conjurer's Revenge, The" (Chesnutt), 552
Connell, Evan S., Jr., 614-619; "Arcturus," 616; Collected Stories of Evan S.
Connell, The
, 618; "Fisherman from Chihuahua, The," 616; "Mountains of Guatemala, The," 618;
"Otto and the Magi," 618; "Palace of the Moorish Kings, The," 616; "Saint Augustine's
Pigeon," 617; "Walls of Avila, The," 616
Connotation, 3058
Conrad, Joseph, 620-628, 2799; "Duel, The," 625; "Gaspar Ruiz," 625; Heart of Darkness,
623, 2755; "Lagoon, The," 622; "Outpost of Progress, An," 622; "Secret Sharer, The," 626, 2799;
"Typhoon," 624; "Youth," 623
Conroy, Frank, 628-631; "Gossip," 630; "Midair," 629; "Sense of the Meeting, The," 629-630
Conte, 2749, 3058
"Contender, The" (Santos), 2881
Contes du lundi. See Monday Tales
Contest of Ladies, A (Sansom), 2088
"Contraband" (Jacobs), 1280
"Conversation, A" (Aiken), 35
"Conversation with My Father, A" (Paley), 2836
Conversations of German Emigrants (Goethe), 2731
"Conversion, The" (Banks), 162
"Conversion of an English Courtizan, The" (Greene, Robert), 1084
"Red Convertible, The" (Erdrich), 848
Cooper, Anna Julia, 2857
Coover, Robert, 632-638, 2829; "Babysitter, The," 2829; Briar Rose, 636;
"Inside the Frame," 636; "Intermission," 636; Night at the Movies, A, 635;
"Phantom of the Movie Palace, The," 636; Pricksongs and Descants, 634;
"Shootout at Gentry's Junction," 635; "You Must Remember This," 636
"Cop and the Anthem, The" (Henry), 2791
Coppard, A. E., 638-644; "Arabesque: The Mouse," 642; "Broadsheet Ballad, A," 640;
"Field of Mustard, The," 639; "Higgler, The," 641; "Lucy in Her Pink Jacket," 643
Copway, George, 2962; Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of the Ojibway Nation, 2962
"Cords" (O'Brien, Edna), 1781
Corey, Elsworth, 2604
Corkery, Daniel, 2920
Corkery, James; "Ploughing of Leaca-na-Naomb, The," 2920
"Corn Planting, The" (Anderson), 81
Coronel no tiene quien le escriba, El. See No One Writes to the Colonel
"Corpo, O" (Lispector), 1520
"Corporal" (Brautigan), 345
Cortázar, Julio, 644-649, 2612; "All Fires the Fire," 646; "Axolotl," 646;
"Bestiary," 645; "Blow-Up," 647; "Letter to a Young Lady in Paris," 646
"Cortes Island" (Munro), 1735
"Councillor Krespel" (Hoffmann), 1219
"Counterfactual Proposal, A" (Stern), 2241
"Counting the Ways" (Perabo), 1899
"Country Doctor, A" (Kafka), 1333
"Country Doctor, The" (Turgenev), 2771
"Country Funeral, The" (McGahern), 1567
"Country Husband, The" (Cheever), 537
"Country of the Blind, The" (Wells), 2479
Country of the Pointed Firs, The (Jewett), 1297-1298
"Country Passion, A" (Callaghan), 417
"Count's Wife, The" (Buzzati), 385
"Course of English Studies, A" (Jhabvala), 1304
"Courter, The" (Rushdie), 2070
Courtly love, 2696, 2715
"Cousin Theresa" (Saki), 2073
"Cousins" (Bellow), 237
Couto, Mia; "Birds of God, The," 2848; Voices Made Night, 2848
"Coventry" (Heinlein), 2636
Coverley, Sir Roger de, 17
"Cow in the House, A" (Kiely), 1357
"Cow Story, The" (Gates), 1532
"Cowslip Field, The" (Bates), 201
Cox, William Trevor. See Trevor, William
"Coyote Juggles His Eyes" (McWhorter), 2964
"Coyote Learns a New Trick" (Brant), 2969
"Coyotes" (Mason), 1642
Cozzens, James Gould, 649-654; "Eyes to See," 652; "Farewell to Cuba," 651;
"Total Stranger," 650
"Cracked Looking-Glass, The" (Porter), 1951
"Crainquebille" (France), 901
Cram, Ralph Adams, 2649; Black Spirits and White, 2649
Crane, Stephen, 654-663; "Blue Hotel, The," 659, 2790; "Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, The,"
659; "Death and the Child," 661; "Experiment in Misery, An," 656; "Four Men in a Cave," 656;
"Open Boat, The," 657
Crawford, F. Marion; Wandering Ghosts, 2649
"Crazy Thought, The" (Gates), 982
Cress Delahanty (West), 2497
"Crickets" (Butler), 378
"Crime at the Tennis Club" (Moravia), 1705
"Crime do professor de matemática, O." See "Crime of the Mathematics Professor, The"
"Crime of Mary Lynn Yager, The" (Cassill), 483
"Crime of the Mathematics Professor, The" (Lispector), 1519
Crimson Ramblers of the World, Farewell (West), 2498
Crisis, 3058
Criticism, 3058
"Croeso i Gymru" (Wiggins), 2518
Crónica de una muerte anunciada. See Chronicle of a Death Foretold
"Crossing, The" (Dumas), 2866
"Crossing into Poland" (Babel), 131
"Crow, The" (Meckel), 1662
"Crow Comes Last, The" (Calvino), 425
"Crown, The" (Lawrence), 1454
"Cruel and Barbarous Treatment" (McCarthy), 1552
"Cruise of the Idlewild, The" (Dreiser), 785
"Crusade" (Oz), 1863
Crystal Frontier, The (Fuentes), 927-928
Cuadros de costumbres, 2940-2941
Cuba, 2957-2958. See also "Geographical Index"
Cuban American culture, 2958
Cuentos de Amor (Pardo Bazán), 1880
Cuentos de Marineda (Pardo Bazán), 1880
Culhwch ac Olwen, 2694
Cumpleaños (Fuentes), 926
Curnutt, Kirk; Wise Economies, 2610
"Currency" (Dazai), 702
"Curtain Blown by the Breeze, A" (Spark), 2198
Cusick, David, 2961
"Custodian, The" (Banks), 162
"Customs of the Country" (Bell), 231
"Cutting Edge" (Purdy), 1993
Cyberiad, The (Lem), 1486
Cyberpunk, 2641
"Cynthia" (Huxley), 1258
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"Daddy Garbage" (Wideman), 2512
Daffodil Sky, The (Bates), 201
Dahl, Roald, 664-669; "Lamb to the Slaughter," 665; "Man from the South," 666;
"Neck," 667; "Royal Jelly," 666
Daisy Miller (James, Henry), 1285, 2783
"Daisy's Valentine" (Gaitskill), 936
Daly, John Carroll, 2616
"Damballah" (Wideman), 2512
Damballah (Wideman), 2511
"Damned, The" (Blackwood), 264
"Damned Thing, The" (Bierce), 260
"Dance of the Happy Shades" (Munro), 1731
"Dancing After Hours" (Dubus), 2835
"Dancing Girl, The" (Mori, bgai), 2932
"Dancing Girls" (Atwood), 110
Dangerous Visions (Ellison), 2640
Dannay, Frederic. See Queen, Ellery
Dante, 670-675; Divine Comedy, The, 670-671
Daoism, 2908-2909
"Daphne" (Ovid), 1855
Daphnis and Chloë (Longus), 2666
"Dare's Gift" (Glasgow), 1010
"Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, The" (Saroyan), 2092
Darío, Rubén, 2942
Dark Blue Suit (Bacho), 2882
Dark Carnival (Bradbury), 335
Darkness (Mukherjee), 1723
"Darkness Box" (Le Guin), 1478
"Darling, The" (Chekhov), 547
"Date with a Bird" (Tolstaya), 2322
Daudet, Alphonse, 676-681; Fédor, La, 680; "Last Class, The," 679;
"Legend of the Man with the Golden Brain, The," 679; Letters from My Mill, 678;
"M. Seguin's Goat," 678; Monday Tales, 679; "Pope's Mule, The," 679;
"Reverend Father Gaucher's Elixir, The," 678; Trésor d'Arlatan, Le, 680
"Daughters of the
Late Colonel, The" (Mansfield), 1620
Davenport, Guy, 681-691; "Aeroplanes at Brescia, The," 683; Apples and Pears and
Other Stories
, 687; Da Vinci's Bicycle, 685; "Dawn in Erewhon, The," 684;
"Death of Picasso, The," 686; Drummer of the Eleventh North Devonshire Fusiliers, The, 689;
Eclogues, 686; Jules Verne Steam Balloon, The, 688;
"Mesoroposthonippidon," 687; "On Some Lines of Virgil," 687; "Robot," 684; "Tatlin!," 684
David, 2658
Davies, Peter Ho, 691, 694; "Hull Case, The," 693; "Small World," 693; "Ugliest House
in the World, The," 692; Union, A, 692
Davies, Rhys, 694-698; "Dilemma of Catherine Fuchsias, The," 697; "Nightgown, The," 696;
"Revelation," 697; "Trip to London, The," 696
Da Vinci's Bicycle (Davenport), 685
"Dawn" (Purdy), 1994
"Dawn in Erewhon, The" (Davenport), 684
"Dawn of Remembered Spring" (Stuart), 2259
Dawson, William James, 2603
"Day at Harmenz" (Borowski), 297
"Day Before, The" (Endō), 844
"Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away, The" (Ōe), 1812
"Day He Left, The" (Simpson), 2155
"Day in the Country, A" (Broyard), 365
"Day in the Open, A" (Bowles, Jane), 307
"Day the Dancers Came, The" (Santos), 2881
Day's End and Other Stories (Bates), 199
"Dayspring Mishandled" (Kipling), 1394
Dazai, Osamu, 699-703; "Almanac of Pain, An," 700; "Currency," 702; "Eight Views of
Tokyo," 701; Eight Views of Tokyo, 700; "Gemeine, Das" 702; "Island of Monkeys, The," 701;
"Mound of the Monkey's Grave, The," 701; "My Older Brothers," 701; "Putting Granny Out to
Die," 701; "Recollections," 700; Return to Tsugaru, 700; "Taking the Wen Away," 702;
"Toys," 701; "Transformation," 701
De Lisser, H. G., 2945
"De Mortuis" (Collier), 607
"De noche soy tu caballo." See "I'm Your Horse in the Night"
"Dead, The" (Joyce), 1322-1323, 1326, 2801, 2918
"Dead as They Come" (McEwan), 1565
"Dead Man, The" (Quiroga), 2020
"Dead Past, The" (Asimov), 99
"Dead Ringer" (Queen), 2014
"Deal, The" (Michaels), 1676
"Deal in Wheat, A" (Norris), 1768
"Dean of Men" (Taylor, Peter), 2296
"Dear Phil Donahue" (Smith), 2183
"Death and the Child" (Crane), 661
"Death and the Compass" (Borges), 289
"Death and the Single Girl" (Disch), 746
"Death in Jerusalem" (Trevor), 2925
Death in Midsummer and Other Stories (Mishima), 1691
"Death in the Desert" (Agee), 21
Death in the Family, A (Agee), 19-20
"Death in the Woods" (Anderson), 80
Death in Venice (Mann), 1611
"Death of a Government Clerk, The" (Chekhov), 542
"Death of a Lesser Man" (Berriault), 250
"Death of a Traveling Salesman" (Welty), 2484
"Death of Dolgushov, The" (Babel), 132, 2820
"Death of Halprin Frayser, The" (Bierce), 2649
Death of Hind Legs and Other Stories (Wain), 2426
"Death of Horatio Alger, The" (Baraka), 167
Death of Ivan Ilyich, The (Tolstoy), 2331, 2794
"Death of Justina, The" (Cheever), 537
"Death of King Arthur, The" (Malory), 1605
"Death of Olivier Bécaille, The" (Zola), 2586
"Death of Picasso, The" (Davenport), 686
"Death the Proud Brother" (Wolfe), 2547
"Deathless Lovers" (Woiwode), 2540
"Debriefing" (Sontag), 2194
Decameron, The (Boccaccio), 268, 2702
"Decapitated Chicken, The" (Quiroga), 2019
Deconstruction, 3058
"Dedicated" (Leavitt), 1464, 2835
"Dedicated Man, A" (Taylor, Elizabeth), 2292
"Deeds of Light" (Price), 1966
Deeds of the Kings of the English, The (William of Malmesbury), 2693
"Deer Woman" (Allen), 2969
Defamiliarization, 3058
"Defeated, The" (Gordimer), 1044
"Defender of the Faith" (Roth), 2062, 2813
Defoe, Daniel; True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs Veal, 2728
"Degradation of Tenderness, The" (Stern), 2243
De la Mare, Walter, 704-708, 2650, 2798; "Ideal Craftsman, An," 707; "In the Forest," 706;
"Orgy, The," 705; "Riddle, The," 705
Delany, Samuel R., 709-714; "Aye, and Gomorrah," 710; "Driftglass," 711; "Tale of Dragons and
Dreamers, The," 712; "Tale of Gorgik, The," 712; "Tale of Old Venn, The," 712;
"Tale of the Small Sarg, The," 711; Tales of Nevèrÿon, 712; "Time Considered as a
Helix of Semiprecious Stones," 711; We, in Some Strange Power's Employ Move on a Rigorous Line, 711
"Delia" (Gordon, Mary), 1053
"Delicate Prey, The" (Bowles, Paul), 314
"Delitto al circolo di tennis." See "Crime at the Tennis Club"
"Demon Lover, The" (Bowen), 303, 2922
Deng Gang, 2912
Denotation, 3058
Dénouement, 3058
"Dentophilia" (Slavin), 2173
"Departures" (L'Heureux), 1511
Derleth, August, 714-719, 2651; "Adventure of the Camberwell Beauty, The," 717;
"Adventure of the Remarkable Worm, The," 716; "Adventure of the Rudberg Numbers, The," 716;
Three Problems for Solar Pons, 717
"Dernière Classe, La." See "Last Class, The"
Desai, Anita, 2974
"Descendant of El Cid, A" (Pardo Bazán), 1879
"Descent into the Maelström, A" (Poe), 1942
Desengaños amorosos (Zayas y Sotomayor), 2706
"Desert Breakdown, 1968" (Wolff), 2552
Deshpande, Shashi, 2974
"Design for Departure" (Algren), 59
"Desire and the Black Masseur" (Williams, Tennessee), 2527
"Désirée's Baby" (Chopin), 564, 2787
"Despicable Bastard" (Endō), 844
"Desquite." See "Revenge, The"
"Destination" (Wang), 2444
"Destiny" (Erdrich), 849
"Destructors, The" (Greene, Graham), 1078, 2815
Detective and mystery, 2613-2624, 2797, 3058. See also "Category Index"
"Detective's Wife, The" (Hoch), 1214
"Detroit Skyline, 1949" (Mason), 1641
"Detstvo: U babushki." See "Childhood: At Grandmother's"
Deus ex machina, 3059
"Deux Amis de Bourbonne, Les." See "Two Friends from Bourbonne, The"
Devatero pohádek. See Fairy Tales
Device, 3059
Devil and All, The (Collier), 606
"Devil and Daniel Webster, The" (Benét), 244
"Devil Was the Joker, The" (Powers), 1958
Devil's Dictionary, The (Bierce), 258
"Dhoya" (Yeats), 2567
"Di Grasso" (Babel), 130
Diagnosis: Impossible (Hoch), 1212
Dialogi. See Dialogues
Dialogics, 3059
Dialogues (Gregory the Great), 2682
"Diamond Badge, The" (Welch), 2470
"Diamond Lens, The" (O'Brien, Fitz-James), 1787
"Diamonds at the Bottom of the Sea" (Hogan), 2926
Diary of a Mad Old Man (Tanizaki), 2286
"Diary of a Madman" (Gogol), 1027
"Diary of a Madman, The" (Lu), 1545
"Diary of a Sixteen-Year-Old" (Kawabata), 1346
"Diary of a Superfluous Man, The" (Turgenev), 2355
"Diary of K. W." (Berriault), 250
Diaz, Junot, 2959; Drown, 2959
Dick, Philip K., 719-725, 2637; "Little Black Box, The," 723; "Mold of Yancy, The," 722;
"Project: Earth," 722; "Rautavaara's Case," 721; "Roog," 721; "Second Variety," 723;
"Small Town," 722; "Trouble with Bubbles, The," 722
Dickens, Charles, 725-731, 2613, 2644; Christmas Carol, A, 729; George
Silverman's Explanation
, 728; "Haunted Man, The," 729; "History of a Self-Tormentor, The," 727;
Pickwick Papers, 726; "Queer Client," 727; "Signalman, The," 2770;
"Sketches by Boz," 2745; "Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton, The," 729
Didactic, 2626, 2628, 2701, 2728, 3059. See also "Category Index"
Diderot, Denis, 731-737; "Madame de la Carlière," 734; Supplement to Bougainville's
Voyage
, 735; "This Is Not a Story," 734; "Two Friends from Bourbonne, The," 733
Diegesis, 3059
"Difference, The" (Glasgow), 1009
"Difficult Case, A" (Howells), 1235
"Difficulty with a Bouquet" (Sansom), 2087
"Dilemma of Catherine Fuchsias, The" (Davies, Rhys), 697
"¡Diles que no me maten!" See "Tell Them Not to Kill Me"
"Dimond Cut Dimond" (Thackeray), 2302
Dinesen, Isak, 737-744, 2816; "Babette's Feast," 742; "Blank Page, The," 2817;
"Heroine, The," 742; "Monkey, The," 738; "Sailor-Boy's Tale, The," 741, 2817;
"Sorrow-Acre," 740, 2817; "Young Man with the Carnation, The," 740
Ding Ling, 2910
Diop, Birago; "Sarzan," 2849
"Dirigibles" (Byers), 391
"Dirty Wedding" (Johnson, Denis), 1312
"Disabled Soldier, The" (Goldsmith), 2728
Disch, Thomas M., 745-749, 2640; "Abduction of Bunny Steiner," 747; "Asian Shore, The," 746;
Brave Little Toaster, The, 747; Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars, The, 747;
"Death and the Single Girl," 746; "Getting into Death," 746; "Joycelin Shrager Story, The," 747;
"Let Us Quickly Hasten to the Gate of Ivory," 746; "Man Who Had No Idea, The," 747
Disciplina clericalis (Alfonsi), 2701
Discourse of the Adventures Passed by Master F. J., The (Gascoigne), 2712
"Disorder and Early Sorrow" (Mann), 2816
Displaced Person, The (O'Connor, Flannery), 1798
"Displacement" (Louie), 2876
Disputation Between a Hee Conny-Catcher and a Shee Conny-Catcher, A (Greene, Robert), 1084
"Distant Episode, A" (Bowles, Paul), 313
"Distracted Preacher, The" (Hardy), 1114
"District in the Rear, A" (Pasternak), 1891
Divarkaruni, Chitra Banerjee, 2885
"Diver, The" (Pritchett), 1974
"Dividends" (O'Faoláin), 1820
Divine Comedy, The (Dante), 670-671. See also Inferno, The
"Diviner, The" (Friel), 921, 2924
"Divorce" (Lu), 1548
Dixon, Stephen, 749-752, 2837; Frog, 751; "Intruder, The," 751; "Last May," 750;
"Man of Letters," 750, 2837; "Man, Woman and Boy," 751; "Signing, The," 750
"Dnevnik lishnega cheloveka." See "Diary of a Superfluous Man, The"
"Do Seek Their Meat from God" (Roberts), 2900
"Do You Love Me?" (Carey) , 452
Doce cuentos peregrinos. See Strange Pilgrims
"Doctor, The" (Gallant), 943
"Dr. Murkes gesammeltes Schweigen." See "Murke's Collected Silences"
"Doctor's Son, The" (O'Hara), 1836
"Dodu" (Narayan), 1753
Dodu and Other Stories (Narayan), 1752
"Doe Season" (Kaplan), 1337
Doerr, Harriet, 752-755; "Edie: A Life," 753; "Mexico," 754; "Tiger in the Grass, The," 754
"Doge and Dogaressa" (Hoffmann), 1220
Doggerel, 3059
"Doll's House, The" (Mansfield), 1622
"Domestic Dilemma, A" (McCullers), 1558
Dominican American culture, 2959
Dominican Republic, 2957
"Dominion" (Targan), 2289
"Don Juan's Last Illusion" (Pardo Bazán), 1880
"Donde viven las águilas." See "Up Among the Eagles"
Donoso, José, 756-760; "Closed Door, The," 758; Gaspard de la nuit, 758; Green
Atom Number Five
, 759; "Güero, The," 757; "Lady, A," 757; "Santelices," 757;
Still Life with Pipe, 759; "Walk, The," 758
"Don't Call Me by My Right Name" (Purdy), 1993
"Door, The" (White), 2507
"Door in the Wall, The" (Wells), 2479
"Door to Doom, The" (Carr), 466
"Doorbell, The" (Nabokov), 1740
Doppelgänger, 3059
"Doppelganger" (Lewis), 1506
"Doppioni." See "Doubles"
"Dorothea." See "Confessions of Fitz-Boodle"
Dorothée (Camus, Jean-Pierre), 2719
"Dos Elenas, Las." See "Two Elenas, The"
"Dos madres." See "Two Mothers"
Dostoevski, Fyodor, 760-765; "Apropos of the Wet Snow," 2773; "Christmas Tree and a
Wedding, A," 763; "Dream of a Ridiculous Man, The," 763; Notes from the Underground, 2794;
"Peasant Marey, The," 2774; "White Nights," 762
"Double Admiral, The" (Metcalfe), 2650
"Double Charley" (Stern), 2241
"Double Happiness Bun, The" (Gilchrist), 993
"Doubles" (Moravia), 1707
Douglas, Ellen, 766-769; "About Loving Women," 768; Hold On, 767; "I Just
Love Carrie Lee," 767; Truth, 768
"Dove of the East, A" (Helprin), 1167
Dove of the East and Other Stories, A (Helprin), 1166
Dovlatov, Sergei, 769-775; Compromise, The, 773; "Mother," 771; "My First
Cousin," 772; "Photo Album, The," 774; "Uncle Aron," 771; "Uncle Leopold," 772;
Zone, The, 773
"Down at the Dollhouse" (Gilchrist), 996
"Down Then by Derry" (Kiely), 1360
"Downward Path to Wisdom, The" (Porter), 1954
Dowson, Ernest; "Dying of Francis Donne, The," 2797
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 775-783, 2613, 2633, 2648; "Adventure of the Speckled Band, The,"
777; "Adventure of the Dancing Men, The," 781; "Adventure of the Empty House, The," 780;
"Final Problem, The," 779; "Red-Headed League, The," 778; "Scandal in Bohemia, A," 778
"Dragon's Seed" (Bell), 232
"Dragons" (Barnes), 170, 2841
"Dream Children" (Lamb), 2745
"Dream Come True, A" (Onetti), 1850
"Dream of a Ridiculous Man, The" (Dostoevski), 763
"Dream Sequence" (Agee), 21
Dream vision, 3059
"Dreaming in Polish" (Bender), 241
Dreiser, Theodore, 783-788; "Cruise of the Idlewild, The," 785; "Khat," 785;
"Lost Phoebe, The," 787; "McEwen of the Shining Slave Makers," 785; "Nigger Jeff," 785;
"Old Neighborhood, The," 786; "Prince Who Was a Thief, The," 785; "St. Columba and the River," 787;
"Sanctuary," 785; Sister Carrie, 784; "Story of Stories, A," 785; "When the Old Century Was New," 785
"Drenched in Light" (Hurston), 2862
"Dressmaker's Dummy, The" (Robbe-Grillet), 2046
"Driftglass" (Delany), 711
"Drifting" (Quiroga), 2020
"Driver" (Barthelme, Frederick), 192
Droll Stories (Balzac), 149
"Drover's Wife, The" (Lawson), 1460
Drown (Diaz), 2959
"Drug Called Tradition, A" (Alexie), 57
"Drummer Boy, The" (Trevor), 2343
"Drummer of All the World, The" (Laurence), 1441
Drummer of the Eleventh North Devonshire Fusiliers, The (Davenport), 689
Drunk with Love (Gilchrist), 994
"Drunkard, The" (O'Connor, Frank), 1806, 2815
Dualism, 3059
Dubliners (Joyce), 1321, 2801
Dubus, Andre, 789-793, 2835; "Adultery," 791; "Blessings," 2835; "Dancing After Hours," 2835;
"Father's Story, A," 791; "Finding a Girl in America," 791; "If They Knew Yvonne," 790;
"Intruder, The," 789; "Pretty Girl, The," 790
"Duel, The" (Chekhov), 545
"Duel, The" (Conrad), 625
"Duellists, The." See "Duel, The"
Du Fresne, Yvonne; "Morning Talk, The," 2896
Duggan, Maurice, 2895; "Along Rideout Road That Summer," 2895
Duke Humphrey's Dinner (O'Brien, Fitz-James), 1789
Dumas, Henry, 2866; "Crossing, The," 2866
"Dummy, The" (Sontag), 2195
"Dun, The" (Edgeworth), 813
Dunbar-Nelson, Alice, 2860; "Violets," 2860
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 793-797, 2859; "Colonel's Awakening, The," 2860; Folks
from Dixie
, 795, 2860; Heart of Happy Hollow, The, 796; In Old Plantation Days, 796;
Strength of Gideon and Other Stories, The, 795
Dunsany, Lord, 797-802, 2648; "Ghosts, The," 2797; "Idle Days on the Yann," 800;
"Sword of Welleran, The," 799; "What Jorkens Has to Put Up With," 801
"Dunwich Horror, The" (Lovecraft), 1538
Dupin, C. Auguste, 777, 1944-1945
"Dushechka." See "Darling, The"
"Dva gusara." See "Two Hussars"
"Dva pomeshchika." See "Two Landowners"
"Dvadtsat'shest' i odna." See "Twenty-six Men and a Girl"
"Dwarf House" (Beattie), 212
Dybek, Stuart, 803-806; "Ant," 805; Childhood and Other Neighborhoods, 804;
Coast of Chicago, The, 804
"Dying" (Stern), 2242
"Dying of Francis Donne, The" (Dowson), 2797
"Dymchurch Flit" (Kipling), 1392
"Dynamite" (Smiley), 2177
"Dzieî na Hermenzach." See "Day at Harmenz"
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"Early One Morning" (Warner), 2453
Early Sorrows (Kiš), 1398
Earthdivers (Vizenor), 2408
"Earthquake in Chile, The" (Kleist), 1401
East into Upper East (Jhabvala), 2976
East, West: Stories (Rushdie), 2976
Eastman, Charles, 2963
Eastman, Jacob; Indian Boyhood, 2963; Red Hunters and the Animal People, 2963;
Stories of the Sioux, 2963; "War Maiden, The," 2963
Eaton, Edith. See Sui Sin Far
"Ebony Tower, The" (Fowles), 893
Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Saint Bede the Venerable), 2683
"Echo, The" (Bowles, Paul), 313
"Echo and the Nemesis, The" (Stafford), 2210
Eclogue, 3059
Eclogues (Davenport), 686
Écriture Féminine, 3059
Edgeworth, Maria, 807-816, 2914; "Angelina or L'Amie Inconnue," 811; Castle Rackrent,
2914; "Dun, The," 813; Frank, I-IV, 810; "Good Aunt, The," 811;
"Lottery, The," 812; "Mademoiselle Panache," 811; Modern Griselda, The, 813;
Parent's Assistant, The, 809; Popular Tales, 811; "Prussian Vase, The," 810;
"Purple Jar, The," 809; "Simple Susan," 809; Tales of Fashionable Life, 813
"Edie: A Life" (Doerr), 753
"Editha" (Howells), 1236, 2787
"Ednas Ruthie" (Cisneros), 581
Edo era, 2930
"Education of Mingo, The" (Johnson, Charles), 1307
"Edward and God" (Kundera), 1416
Effect, 3059
Egan, Greg, 2641
"Egg, The" (Anderson), 81
"Egg Race, The" (Updike), 2382
Egil's saga, 2674
Egyptian culture, 2659. See also "Geographical Index"
"Eight Views of Tokyo" (Dazai), 701
Eight Views of Tokyo (Dazai), 700
Eighteenth century, 2726-2735
"Eighty-Yard Run, The" (Shaw), 2132
"Eileen" (Gordon, Mary), 1054
"Eine seele aus holz." See "Soul of Wood"
"Einfahrt, Die" (Walser), 2440
Ejxenbaum, B. M., 2752-2753, 2762
El Bronx Remembered (Mohr), 2958
Elbow Room (McPherson), 2867
"Electioneering on Big Injun Mountain" (Murfree), 2780
Elegy, 3059
Elene (Cynewulf), 2687
"Elephant Vanishes, The" (Murakami), 2934
"Eleven" (Cisneros), 582
"Eli, the Fanatic" (Roth), 2060
"Eliduc" (Fowles), 894
"Eliduc" (Marie de France), 1628
Eliot, George, 816-820; "Amos Barton," 817; "Brother Jacob," 818; "Janet's Repentance," 818;
"Mr. Gilfil's Love Story," 817; "Lifted Veil, The," 818
Eliot, T. S., 2795
"Elisabetta, Carlotta, Catherine" (Kaplan), 1337
"Elixir de Révérend Père Gaucher, L'." See "Reverend Father Gaucher's Elixir, The"
Elizabethan romance, 2710
"Elka i svad'ba." See "Christmas Tree and a
Wedding, A"
Elkin, Stanley, 820-825; "Bailbondsman, The," 823; "Everything Must Go!," 821;
"In the Alley," 822; Van Gogh's Room at Arles, 823
Ellin, Stanley; "Specialty of the House, The," 2621
Elliott, George P., 825-830, 2607; Hour of Last Things and Other Stories, An, 828;
"Into the Cone of Cold," 828; "Miss Cudahy of Stowe's Landing," 829; "NRACP, The," 827
Ellis Island and Other Stories (Helprin), 1168
Ellison, Harlan, 831-836; Dangerous Visions, 2640; "Face of Helene Bournouw,
The," 834; "Jeffty Is Five," 835; "On the Downhill Side," 834; "Shattered Like a Glass Goblin," 832
Ellison, Ralph, 837-841, 2865; "Battle Royal," 2865; "Flying Home," 839; Flying Home and
Other Stories
, 838; "In a Strange Country," 839; Invisible Man, 2865;
"King of the Bingo Game," 839
"Embrace at Vergara, The" (Alarcón), 43
"Emerald" (Zhang), 2580
"Emergency" (Johnson, Denis), 1311
Emotive meaning, 3059
Emperor of the Air (Canin), 434
"Emperor's New Clothes, The" (Andersen), 74
Empress's Ring, The (Hale), 1097
"Empty House, The" (Blackwood), 263
"Enciklopedija mrtvih." See "Encyclopedia of the Dead"
"Encyclopedia of the Dead" (Kiš), 1399
"End, The" (Beckett), 221
"End of August, The" (Pavese), 1897
"End of Romance, The" (Brown), 361
"End of the Old Folks' Home, The" (Babel), 131
"Ende einer welt, Das." See "End of a World, The"
"Ending" (Grau), 1068
Endō, Shūsaku, 841-847; "Box, The," 845; "Day Before, The," 844; "Despicable Bastard," 844;
"Final Martyrs, The," 845; "Forty-Year-Old Man, A," 843; "Incredible Voyage," 844;
"Retreating Figures," 843; "Shadow Figure, The," 844
"Enemy, The" (Buck), 368
"Enfance d'un chef, L'." See "Childhood of a Boss"
"Enfant malade, L'." See "Sick Child, The"
England, 2726; 1880-1920, 2796; and medieval romance, 2695; modern short story and, 2744.
See also "Geographical Index"
"Enigma, The" (Fowles), 895
Enlightenment, 2726, 2732, 2734
"Enoch Soames" (Beerbohm), 226
"Enormous Door" (Price), 1966
"Enormous Radio, The" (Cheever), 534, 2810
"Enormous Space, The" (Ballard), 145
"Entered as Second-Class Matter" (Perelman), 1904
"Entrance into Life" (Hale), 1098
"Entropy" (Pynchon), 2007
"Ephemera, The" (Franklin), 906
Epic, 2661, 2685, 3059. See also "Category Index"
Epidemia, L' (Moravia), 1706
"Epilogue II" (Mansfield), 1619
Epiphany, 1321, 1518-1519, 2917, 3060. See also "Category Index"
Episode, 3060
"Episode at Gastein" (Sansom), 2088
Epistolary fiction, 3060
"Epitaph, An" (Shalamov), 2129
"Epstein" (Roth), 2061
"Erdbeben in Chili, Das." See "Earthquake in Chile, The"
Erdrich, Louise, 847-850; "Destiny," 849; "Fleur," 849; Love Medicine, 2965;
"Matchimanito," 849; "Red Convertible, The," 848; "Saint Marie," 849, 2967; Tracks, 2965
Erec and Enide (Chrétien de Troyes), 568
Ermanaric, 2684
"Ermolai and Miller's Wife" (Turgenev), 2354
"Ermolai i mel'nichikha." See "Ermolai and Miller's Wife"
"Erostrate." See "Erostratus"
"Erostratus" (Sartre), 2098
Erotic Tales (Moravia), 1708
"Es lebe die freiheit." See "Hurrah for Freedom"
"Es que somos muy pobres." See "We're Very Poor"
"Escapade, An" (Callaghan), 418
"Escapes" (Williams, Joy), 2522
Escapes (Williams, Joy), 2521
"Esperanto" (Shalamov), 2128
Espurgatoire Saint Patriz (Marie de France), 1628
Essais. See Essays, The
Essay, 3060
Essay-sketch tradition, 2737-2739, 2744, 3060. See also "Category Index"
Essays, The
(Montaigne), 2737
"Esther" (Toomer), 2336
Etchison, Dennis, 2652
"Eterna" (Lavin), 1447
"Eternal Moment, The" (Forster), 888
Eternal Smile, The (Lagerkvist), 1421
"Ethan Brand" (Hawthorne), 1149
Ethiopian History, An (Heliodorus), 2666
Euphony, 3060
Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit (Lyly), 2714
Europe; and science fiction, 2633; and the supernatural, 2645
"Eva." See "Eve"
Eva Luna (Allende), 67
"Evangeline's Mother" (Kinsella), 1383
"Eve" (Arreola), 93
"Eve of the Spirit Festival, The" (Chang), 512
"Eveline" (Joyce), 2917
"Evelyn" (Austen), 125
"Evening in Connecticut" (Tuohy), 2349
"Evening Primrose" (Collier), 608
"Evening with Dr. Faust, An" (Hesse), 1190
"Evening with John Joe Dempsey, An" (Trevor), 2342
"Eventide" (Purdy), 1996
"Evermore" (Barnes), 171
"Every Little Hurricane" (Alexie), 57
"Everybody Knew Bubba Riff" (Wideman), 2514
"Everyday Disorders" (Prose), 1977
"Everyday Use" (Walker), 2434
"Everything Is Nice" (Bowles, Jane), 309
"Everything Must Go!" (Elkin), 821
"Everything That Rises Must Converge" (O'Connor, Flannery), 1799
Everything That Rises Must Converge (O'Connor, Flannery), 1799
"Everything Under the Sun" (Purdy), 1994
Eviga leendet, Det. See Eternal Smile, The
"Ex Parte" (Lardner), 1436
Executioner, The. See Hangman, The
"Executor, An" (Mars-Jones), 1632
Exemplary Novels (Cervantes), 493, 2706, 2720
Exemplum, 2701, 2939, 3060. See also "Category Index"
Exile of the Sons of Uisliu, 2688
Existentialism, 3060. See also "Category Index"
"Expatriates' Party, The" (Vanderhaeghe), 2392
"Experiment in Misery, An" (Crane), 656
Experimental, 2828. See also "Category Index"
Exposition, 3060
Expressionism, 3060. See also "Category Index"
"Extract from an Account of the Captivity of William Henry" (Franklin), 906
"Eye of Apollo, The" (Chesterton), 558
"Eyes, The" (Wharton), 2502
"Eyes of the Statue, The" (Laye), 2850
"Eyes of Zapata" (Cisneros), 2955
"Eyes to See" (Cozzens), 652
Eyrbggja saga, 2674
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Fable, 2625-2631, 2658, 2660, 2736, 3060; eighteenth century, 2629;
medieval, 2626, 2628; nineteenth century, 2629; seventeenth century, 2629; twentieth century, 2630.
See also "Category Index"
"Fable of the Goat" (Agnon), 24
Fables of a Jewish Aesop (Natronai ha-Nakdan), 2628
Fabliau, 3060
Fabulation, 3060
"Face of Helene Bournouw, The" (Ellison, Harlan), 834
"Face of Stone, A" (Williams, William Carlos), 2532
"Face on the Barroom Floor, The" (Algren), 60
Facing the Music (Brown), 361
"Facino Cane" (Balzac), 150
"Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut, The" (Twain), 2361
Fair Eckbert (Tieck), 2731
"Fair Trade, A" (Byers), 392
"Fairy Goose, The" (O'Flaherty), 1828, 2922
Fairy tale, 2658, 2736-2737, 3060. See also "Category Index"
"Fairy Tale, The" (Goethe), 1019
Fairy Tales (Čapek), 439
"Fall of the House of Usher, The" (Poe), 1276, 1945, 2644, 2743, 2767
"Falling Free" (Targan), 2289
"False Dawn" (Mahfouz), 1589
"False Lights" (Godwin), 1014
"False Prophet, The" (Sembène), 2850
"Fame" (Walker), 2433
"Family, The" (Pavese), 1895
Family Happiness (Tolstoy), 2330
Family Ties (Lispector), 1519
"Famous Poll at Jody's Bar, The" (Gilchrist), 993
Fanatic Heart, A (O'Brien, Edna), 1784
Fancies and Goodnights (Collier), 608
"Fangzhou." See "Ark, The"
Fantastic, 3061. See also "Category Index"
Fantastics and Other Fancies (Hearn), 1157
"Fard" (Huxley), 1258
"Fare to the Moon" (Price), 1965
"Farewell to Cuba" (Cozzens), 651
Farewell to Matyora (Rasputin), 2025
Farewell to Militarie Profession (Rich), 2711
"Farmers' Daughters, The" (Williams, William Carlos), 2533
Farrell, James T., 851-856; "Fastest Runner on Sixty-first Street, The," 854;
"When Boyhood Dreams Come True," 852
"Fastest Runner on Sixty-first Street, The" (Farrell), 854
"Fat" (Carver), 474
"Father, The" (Babel), 130
"Father, A" (Mukherjee), 1725
"Father and I" (Lagerkvist), 1422
"Father's Last Escape" (Schulz), 2110
"Father's Story, A" (Dubus), 791
Faulkner, William, 856-864, 2804; "Barn Burning," 861; "Bear, The," 860, 2804;
"Rose for Emily, A," 858, 2805; "That Evening Sun," 2805
Fauset, Jessie Redmon, 2861
"Feather in the Toque, The" (Minot), 1688
"Feather Pillow, The" (Queen), 2019
Fédor, La (Daudet), 680
Felicidade clandestina (Lispector), 1519
"Feliz aniversário." See "Happy Birthday"
Fellow Passengers (Auchincloss), 121
Feng Menglong, 2908
"Fenice, La" (Colette), 601
"Fensted's Mother" (Baxter), 208
Fenton, Geoffrey; Certain Tragical Discourses, 2711
Fernandez, Roberto, 2958
Fetish, The (Moravia), 1707
"Fever" (Wideman), 2513
Fever (Wideman), 2513
"Few Crusted Characters, A" (Hardy), 1115
Ficciones, 1935-1944, 2942
"Fiddler, The" (Melville), 1669
"Fiddler of the Reels, The" (Hardy), 1114
Fiddler on the Roof (film), 50
"Fidelity" (Jhabvala), 1305
"Field Guide to the Western Birds" (Stegner), 2222
"Field of Mustard, The" (Coppard), 639
"Fifteen-Dollar Eagle, The" (Plath), 1935
"Fifteen: Spring" (West), 2497
"Fig Tree, The" (Ngugi), 2854
"Fig Tree, The" (Porter), 1954
"Fight, The" (Thomas), 2309
Fightin' (Ortiz), 2967
Figurative language, 3061
"Figure in the Carpet, The" (James, Henry), 1287
Figure on the Boundary Line, The (Meckel), 1662
Filipino American culture, 2880, 2882
"Filthy with Things" (Boyle, T. C.), 329
Fin de Chéri, La. See Last of Chéri, The
Fin de siècle, 3061
"Final Martyrs, The" (Endō), 845
"Final Mist, The" (Bombal), 278
"Final Problem, The" (Doyle), 779
"Final Proof of Fate and Circumstance, The" (Abbott), 2
"Finding a Girl in America" (Dubus), 791
"Findling, Der." See "Foundling, The"
"Fine Accommodations" (Hughes), 1241
"Fingers in the Door" (Tuohy), 2349
Finlayson, Roderick; "Totara Tree, The," 2895
Firdusi; Shahnamah, 2664
"Fire and Cloud" (Wright, Richard), 2561
"Fire in the Wood, The" (Welch), 2470
Fireman Flower (Sansom), 2085
"Fires" (Bass), 195
"First Communion" (Rivera), 2043
"First Confession" (O'Connor, Frank), 1806
"First Dark" (Spencer), 2204
"First Death of Her Life, The" (Taylor, Elizabeth), 2292
"First Love" (Babel), 129
"First Love" (Beckett), 220
"First Love" (Pavese), 1896
"First Love" (Turgenev), 2357
First Love and Other Sorrows (Brodkey), 356
First Love, Last Rites (McEwan), 1564, 2841
"First Seven Years, The" (Malamud), 1597
"First Year of My Life, The" (Spark), 2199
"Firstborn" (Woiwode), 2541
"Fisherman and His Wife, The" (Grimm), 1087
"Fisherman from Chihuahua, The" (Connell), 616
Fisherman of the Inland Sea, A (Le Guin), 1479
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 864-871; "Babylon Revisited," 868; "Last Kiss," 869;
"Rich Boy, The," 867; "Winter Dreams," 867
Fitzgibbon, Roseanne, 2888
"Five-Forty-Eight, The" (Cheever), 536
Five Women Who Loved Love (Ihara Saikaku), 1263, 2930
Flashback, 3061
Flaubert, Gustave, 872-879, 2792; "Hérodias," 877; "Legend of St. Julian, Hospitaler, The,"
876, 2792; "Simple Heart, A," 873, 2782
"Fleur" (Erdrich), 849
"Flight" (Grau), 1068
"Flight" (Steinbeck), 2237
"Flight" (Updike), 2377
Flights of Angels (Gilchrist), 995
"Flights of Fancy" (Trevor), 2344
"Flood, The" (Harjo), 1119
"Flood, The" (Zamyatin), 2576
"Flowering Judas" (Porter), 1951, 2807
"Fly, The" (Chekhov), 2800
"Fly, The" (Mansfield), 1621
Flying Goat, The (Bates), 200
"Flying Home" (Ellison, Ralph), 839
Flying Home and Other Stories (Ellison, Ralph), 838
"Fog, The" (Kavan), 1342
Folks from Dixie (Dunbar), 795, 2860
Folktale, 2657, 2745, 2975, 3061. See also "Category Index"
"For Esmé--with Love and Squalor" (Salinger), 2078
"For Real" (Robison), 2057
"For the Good of the Cause" (Solzhenitsyn), 2190
Ford, Richard, 880-885, 2833; "Communist," 2833; "Great Falls," 882;
"Optimists," 881; "Rock Springs," 882, 2833; "Sweethearts," 883; Wildlife, 883;
Women with Men, 884
Foreign Legion, The (Lispector), 1519
Foreseeable Future, The (Price), 1965
"Forest in Full Bloom, The" (Mishima), 1691
"Foring Parts" (Thackery), 2302
"Forks, The" (Powers), 1958
Form, 3061
Forster, E. M., 886-891; Aspects of the Novel, 2611; "Celestial Omnibus, The," 889;
"Machine Stops, The," 887; "Eternal Moment, The," 888; "Other Kingdom," 887, 889;
"Road from Colonus, The," 889; "Story of a Panic, The," 887
Fortune, Reggie, 2618
"Forty-Year-Old Man, A" (Endō), 843
"Forty-five a Month" (Narayan), 1753
"Foundling, The" (Kipling), 1403
"Foundry House" (Friel), 922, 2924
"Four Men in a Cave" (Crane), 656
Fowles, John, 891-897; "Cloud, The," 895; "Ebony Tower, The," 893; "Eliduc," 894;
"Enigma, The," 895; "Poor Koko," 894
Fox, The (Lawrence), 2814
"Fox and Swan" (L'Heureux), 1511
Foxe, John; Book of Martyrs, The, 2718
"Fragment of the Lives of Three Friends, A" (Hoffmann), 1219
Frame, Janet, 2894-2895; Lagoon, The, 2894; "My Last Story," 2895
Frame story, 3061
Framework, 3061
France, 2730; 1880-1920, 2792; and medieval romance, 2692; modern short story and, 2749;
novella and, 2704. See also "Geographical Index"
France, Anatole, 897-902; "Balthasar," 899; "Crainquebille," 901; "Juggler of Our
Lady, The," 900; "M. Pigeonneau," 900; "Procurator of Judea, The," 900; "Putois," 901
Francis, Dick, 2622
Francophone African short fiction, 2849
Frank, I-IV (Edgeworth), 810
Franklin, Benjamin, 903-908; "Alice Addertongue," 905; "Anthony Afterwit," 904;
"Bagatelles, The," 2730; "Celia Single," 904; "Ephemera, The," 906; "Extract from an
Account of the Captivity of William Henry," 906; "Letter from China, A," 906; Reflections on
Courtship and Marriage
, 2730; "Silence Dogood Essays," 2730; "Speech of Polly Baker," 905
"Franklin's Tale, The" (Chaucer), 529
"Franny" (Salinger), 2080
Franny and Zooey (Salinger), 2080
"Fräulein von Scudéri, Das." See "Mademoiselle de Scudéry"
"Fred and Arthur" (Gilliatt), 999
"Frederic and Elfrida" (Austen), 125
"Free Agents" (Apple), 88
Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches (Harris, Joel Chandler), 1124
"Free Joe and the Rest of the World" (Harris, Joel Chandler), 1124
"Free Will" (Pavese), 1896
"Freedom's a Hard-Bought Thing" (Benét), 245
Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins, 908-914, 2787; "New England Nun, A," 910, 2787;
"Poetess, A," 911; "Revolt of `Mother,' The," 909
Freeman, R. Austin, 2615
"French Lessons" (Rasputin), 2024
"French Poodle, The" (Lewis), 1505
"Fresh Snow, A" (Humphrey), 1246
Friedman, Bruce Jay, 914-920; "Black Angels," 917; "Good Time, The," 917;
"Lady," 918; "Partners, The," 918; "Pitched Out," 919; "Punch, The," 917;
"Trip, The," 917; "When You're Excused You're Excused," 918
Friedman, Norman, 2607
Friel, Brian, 920-923, 2924; "Among the Ruins," 921; "Diviner, The," 921, 2924;
"Foundry House," 922, 2924; "My Father and the Sergeant," 922; "Saucer of Larks, The," 922
Friendly Persuasion, The (West), 2496
Fritz Kochers Aufsätze (Walser), 2439
Frog (Dixon), 751
"Frog Prince, The" (Collier), 609
"From the Journal of a Leper" (Updike), 2381
Frontera de cristal, La. See Crystal Frontier, The
"Frontier, The" (Bates), 201
Frye, Northrop; Words with Power, 2659
Fuentes, Carlos, 924-929, 2943; Aura, 926; Cantar de ciegos, 926;
"Capital Girl, A," 927; "Chac Mool," 925; Crystal Frontier, The, 927-928;
Cumpleaños, 926; Holy Place, 926; "Old Morality, The," 926;
"Pain," 927; "Two Elenas, The," 926
"Fugue" (O'Faoláin), 2920
Fun and Games (Major), 1592
Funerales de la Mamá Grande, Los (García Márquez), 953
"Funes the Memorious" (Borges), 2822
"Fur Coat, The" (O'Faoláin), 1819
Further Confessions of Zeno (Svevo), 2271
"Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy: IV" (Lem), 1485
Further Confessions of Zeno (Svevo), 2271
Fūten rfjin nikki. See Diary of a Mad Old Man
Futrelle, Jacques, 2614
Futurians, 2638
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G
Gaines, Ernest J., 930-935; Bloodline, 930, 933; "Just Like a
Tree," 934; "Long Day in November, A," 932; "Sky Is Gray, The," 932; "Three Men," 933
Gaitskill, Mary, 936-938; "Because They Wanted To," 937; "Daisy's Valentine," 936;
"Girl on the Plane, The," 937; "Something Nice," 937; "Tiny, Smiling Daddy," 937
Galang, M. Evelina, 2883
Gallant, Mavis, 939-944, 2903; "Across the Bridge," 942; "Autumn Day," 941;
"Between Zero and One," 943; Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant, The, 942;
"Doctor, The," 943; "In Youth Is Pleasure," 943; "Moslem Wife, The," 942;
"Other Paris, The," 940; "Poor Franzi," 941
Galsworthy, John, 945-950; "Apple Tree, The," 946; "Indian Summer of a Forsyte, The," 947;
On Forsyte `Change, 947; "Salvation of a Forsyte, The," 947; "Spindleberries," 948
"Game of Clue, A" (Millhauser), 1684
"Games Without End" (Calvino), 426
"Gamlet Shchigrovskogo uezda." See "Prince Hamlet of Shchigrovo"
"Gander-Pulling, The" (Longstreet), 1528
"Gangu." See "Toys"
García Márquez, Gabriel, 950-956, 2943; Chronicle of a Death Foretold, 954;
Funerales de la Mamá Grande, Los, 953; Innocent Eréndira and Other Stories, 954;
No One Writes to the Colonel, 953; Ojos de perro azul, 952; Strange Pilgrims, 954
"Garden of Forking Paths, The" (Borges), 290
"Garden-Party, The" (Mansfield), 1623
Gardner, John, 956-963; Art of Living and Other Stories, The, 961; "Come on Back," 961;
"John Napper Sailing Through the Universe," 959; "King's Indian, The," 960; King's Indian, The, 958;
"Midnight Reader, The," 958; "Pastoral Care," 958; "Ravages of Spring, The," 958; "Redemption," 961;
"Tales of Queen Louisa," 960; "Temptation of St. Ivo, The," 959; "Warden, The," 959
Garland, Hamlin, 963-969, 2789; "Branch Road, A," 966; "Lucretia Burns," 965;
"Return of a Private, The," 967; "Sociable at Dudleys, A," 965; "Under the Lion's Paw," 965
Garrett, George, 969-974; Bad Man Blues, 972-973; "Cold Ground Was My Bed Last Night," 970;
"Genius Baby," 972; "Going to See the Elephant," 973; "Magic Striptease, The," 971;
"Wreath for Garibaldi, A," 971
Gascoigne, George; Discourse of the Adventures Passed by Master F. J., The, 2712
"Gaspar Ruiz" (Conrad), 625
Gaspard de la nuit (Donoso), 758
Gass, William H., 975-980, 2830; Cartesian Sonata, The, 979; "In the Heart
of the Heart of the Country," 978; "Mrs. Mean," 978; "Order of Insects," 977, 2830;
"Pederson Kid, The," 977
Gates, David, 980-983; "Beating," 982; "Crazy Thought, The," 982; "Intruder, The," 982;
"Mail Lady, The," 982; "Saturn," 982; "Star Baby," 981; "Vigil," 982; "Wonders of the
Invisible World, The," 981; Wonders of the Invisible World, The, 981; "Wronged Husband, A," 981
Gautier, Théophile, 984-987, 2750; "Beautiful Vampire, The," 985; "King Candaules," 986;
"Mummy's Foot, The," 2768; "Omphale," 985; "One of Cleopatra's Nights," 986
Gautreux, Tim, 988-991; "Little Frogs in a Ditch," 989; "Piano Tuner, The," 990;
"Same Place, Same Things," 988; "Welding with Children," 989
"Gavin O'Leary" (Collier), 608
"Gedali" (Babel), 131
Geismar, Maxwell, 2604
"Gemeine, Das" (Dazai), 702
Gendered, 3061
"General's Day, The" (Trevor), 2342
"Generous Wine" (Svevo), 2271
"Gengobei, the Mountain of Love" (Ihara Saikaku), 2930
"Genius Baby," (Garrett), 972
Genji monogatari. See Tale of Genji, The
Genre study, 3061
Genre theory, 2610
Gentle Grafter, The (Henry), 1186
Gentle Insurrection and Other Stories, The (Betts), 252
"Gentleman from Cracow, The" (Singer), 2818
"Gentleman from San Francisco, The" (Bunin), 375
Geoffrey of Monmouth; History of the Kings of Britain, 2694
George Silverman's Explanation (Dickens), 728
"Georgia Theatrics" (Longstreet), 1528
"Geranium, The" (O'Connor, Flannery), 1796
"German Refugee, The" (Malamud), 1600
Germany, 2731; 1880-1920, 2793; modern short story and, 2747. See also "Geographical Index"
"Germinal" (Æ), 1078
Gerould, Katherine Fullerton, 2755
"Get on with the Sleeping" (Zoshchenko), 2591
"Getting into Death" (Disch), 746
"Ghost Girls" (Oates), 1778
"Ghostly Kiss, The" (Hearn), 1157
"Ghosts, The" (Dunsany), 2797
"Giacca stregata, La." See "Bewitched Jacket, The"
"Giacchetta di cuoio, La." See "Leather Jacket, The"
"Gift of the Magi, The" (Henry), 1184, 2791
Gilchrist, Ellen, 991-997; "Anna, Part I," 995; "Double Happiness Bun, The," 993;
"Down at the Dollhouse," 996; Drunk with Love, 994; "Famous Poll at Jody's Bar, The," 993;
Flights of Angels, 995; "Have a *Wonderful* Nice Walk," 996; I Cannot Get You
Close Enough
, 995; "Jade Buddhas, Red Bridges, Fruits of Love," 993;
"Light Can Be Both Wave and Particle," 995; Light Can Be Both Wave and Particle, 995;
"Mexico," 995; "Miss Crystal Confronts the Past," 995; "Mississippi," 996; "Music," 994;
"Rich," 993; "Sordid Tale," 996; "Traceleen at Dawn," 995; "Tree to Be Desired, A," 996;
Victory over Japan, 993
"Gilded Six-Bits, The" (Hurston), 1253, 2862
"Giles and Penelope" (Wain), 2426
Gilgamesh, 2661
Gilliatt, Penelope, 997-1003; "Antique Love Story, An," 1000; "Fred and Arthur," 999;
Lingo, 1001; "Living on the Box," 999; Nobody's Business, 1000; Quotations from
Other Lives
, 1000; "Redhead, The," 999, 1002; Splendid Lives, 1000;
"Staying in Bed," 1000; "Stephanie, Stephen, Steph, Steve," 1002; They Sleep Without
Dreaming
, 1001; "What's It Like Out?," 999; What's It Like Out?, 999
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1003-1007; "Making a Change," 1005; "Mr. Peebles' Heart," 1006;
"When I Was a Witch," 1006; "Yellow Wallpaper, The," 1005
"Gimpel Tam." See "Gimpel the Fool"
"Gimpel the Fool" (Singer), 2161, 2818
"Giochi senza fine." See "Games Without End"
"Girders, The" (Lavin), 1448
"Girl" (Kincaid), 1364, 2869
"Girl on the Bus, The" (Sansom), 2087
"Girl on the Plane, The" (Gaitskill), 937
"Girls at War" (Achebe), 7, 2852
Girls at War (Achebe), 2851
"Girls in Their Summer Dresses, The" (Shaw), 2133
"Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, The" (Bank), 158
Gissing, George; "House of Cobwebs," 2797
"Give It Up!" (Kafka), 1331
"Giving Birth" (Atwood), 111
Glasgow, Ellen, 1007-1012; "Dare's Gift," 1010; "Difference, The," 1009;
"Jordan's End," 1011; "Romance and Sally Byrd," 1009
"Glass Coffin, The" (Byatt), 389
"Glass Family Cycle, The" (Salinger), 2079
"Glass Mountain, The" (Barthelme, Donald), 188
"Glass Scholar, The" (Cervantes), 496
"Glimpse into Another Country" (Morris), 1713
"Go-Away Bird, The" (Spark) , 2199
"Go Back to Your Precious Wife and Son" (Vonnegut), 2420
"Go South in the Winter" (Spencer), 2206
"Godfather Death" (Grimm), 1088
"Godliness" (Anderson), 79
"God's World" (Mahfouz), 1587
"God's Wrath" (Malamud), 1601
Godwin, Gail, 1013-1016; "Amanuensis," 1015; "False Lights," 1014; "Legacy of the
Motes, The," 1015; "Nobody's Home," 1014
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1016-1022; Conversations of German Emigrants,
2731; "Fairy Tale, The," 1019; Novelle, 1020; Sorrows of Young Werther, The, 1018
Gogol, Nikolai, 1022-1029, 2645, 2748-2749; "Diary of a Madman," 1027; "Ivan Fyodorovich
Shponka and His Aunt," 1025; "May Night, A," 1025; "Nevsky Prospect," 1026;
"Overcoat, The," 1027; "Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich, The," 1026;
"Taras Bulba," 1026; "Viy," 1026
"Gogol's Wife" (Landolfi), 1431
"Going After Cacciato" (O'Brien, Tim), 1792
"Going Home With Uccello" (Beattie), 215
"Going into Exile" (O'Flaherty), 2922
"Going to Meet the Man" (Baldwin), 137
"Going to See the Elephant (Garrett), 973
"Going Up in the World" (Kavan), 1340
Gold, Herbert, 1030-1033; "Cohorts," 1032; "Heart of the Artichoke, The," 1031;
"Love and Like," 1032; Lovers and Cohorts, 1031
"Gold Coast" (McPherson), 1582, 2867
"Golden Apple of Eternal Desire, The" (Kundera), 1417
Golden Apples of the Sun, The (Bradbury), 336
"Golden Child" (Price), 1966
Golden Flower Pot, The (Hoffmann), 1219
"Golden Girl" (Hospital), 1229
"Golden Honeymoon" (Lardner), 1436
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1033-1039; Citizen of the World, The, 1034; "Disabled Soldier, The," 2728
"Gololeditsa." See "Icicle, The"
"Gonzaga Manuscripts, The" (Bellow), 235
Gonzalez, Genaro, 2954
Gonzalez, Luis, 2957
Gonzalez, N. V. M., 2882; Bread of Salt and Other Stories, 2882
"Good Advice Is Rarer than Rubies" (Rushdie), 2069
"Good Aunt, The" (Edgeworth), 811
Good Bones and Simple Murders (Atwood), 114
"Good Country People" (O'Connor, Flannery), 1798
"Good Deed, The" (Buck), 369
"Good Man Is Hard to Find, A" (O'Connor, Flannery), 2809
Good Man Is Hard to Find, A (O'Connor, Flannery), 1797
"Good Morrow, Swine" (Stern), 2240
"Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, A" (Butler), 379
"Good Time, The" (Friedman), 917
Good Will (Smiley), 2179
"Good Women, The" (Sillitoe), 2145
"Goodbye and Good Luck" (Paley), 1873
"Goodbye, My Brother" (Cheever), 535
Good-bye, Wisconsin (Wescott), 2492
"Goophered Grapevine, The" (Chesnutt), 551, 2858
Gordimer, Nadine, 1039-1046, 2603; "Abroad," 1042; "Blinder," 1044; "Chip of Glass Ruby, A," 1042; "City of the Dead, a City of the Living, A," 1044;
"Defeated, The," 1044; "Soldier's Embrace, A," 1043; "Intruder, The," 1042;
"Is There Nowhere Else Where We Can Meet?," 1041; "Sins of the Third Age," 1044;
"Six Feet of the Country," 1041; Something Out There, 1043
Gordon, Caroline, 1046-1051; "Ice House, The," 1050; "Last Day in the Field, The,"
1048; "One Against Thebes," 1049
Gordon, Mary, 1052-1055; "Agnes," 1053; "Delia," 1053; "Eileen," 1054; Rest of Life, The, 1054
"Gorilla, My Love" (Bambara), 154
Gorilla, My Love (Bambara), 154, 2869
Gorky, Maxim, 1055-1060; "Chelkash," 1057; "In the Steppe," 1058; "Makar Chudra," 1057;
"Man Is Born, A," 1057; "Old Woman Izergil," 1057; "On the Rafts," 1058; "One Autumn Night," 1058;
"Orlov Married Couple," 1058; "Song of the Falcon, The," 1057; "Twenty-six Men and a
Girl," 1057; "Varenka Olesova," 1058
"Gospodin iz San Frantsisko." See "Gentleman from San Francisco, The"
"Gossip" (Conroy), 630
Gothic, 2643, 2729, 2734, 2748, 3061. See also "Category Index"
Goyen, William, 1060-1064; "Shape of Light, A," 1062; "White Rooster, The," 1061
"Grabezh."
See "Robbery, A"
"Grace" (Joyce), 1323
Grace, Alfred; Maoriland Stories, 2895; Tales of a Dying Race, 2895
"Grammar of Love" (Bunin), 374
"Grammatika liubvi." See "Grammar of Love"
Grand parangon des nouvelles nouvelles, Le (Nicolas de Troyes), 2705
"Grande Bretèche, The" (Balzac), 149, 2750
"Grandfather and Grandson" (Singer), 2162
"Grandmother's Tale, The" (Narayan), 1754
Grandmother's Tale and Selected Stories, The (Narayan), 1754
Grau, Shirley Ann, 1065-1069; "Beginning, The," 1068; "Ending," 1068; "Flight," 1068;
"Home," 1068; "Housekeeper," 1067; "Hunter," 1067; "Joshua," 1066; "Letting Go," 1068;
"Man Outside, The," 1067; "Miss Yellow-Eyes," 1065; Nine Women, 1067;
"Summer Shore," 1067;
"Way Back, The," 1067; "Widow's Walk," 1068; Wind Shifting West, The, 1066
"Grave, The" (Porter), 1954, 2807
"Grayling" (Simms), 2150
Great Britain; and medieval romance, 2693; 1920-1960, 2813; and science fiction, 2638;
and the supernatural, 2647, 2650. See also "Geographical Index"
"Great Falls" (Ford), 882
Great God Pan, The (Machen), 1575
Great Mirror of Male Love, The (Ihara Saikaku), 1265, 2