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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, 2930
"Great Wave, The" (Lavin), 2923
"Greater Grace of Carlisle, The" (Perabo), 1900
Greek myth, 2660
Green Atom Number Five (Donoso), 759
"Green Hills of Earth, The" (Heinlein), 1161
"Green Park" (Wiggins), 2517
"Green Tea" (Le Fanu), 2645, 2915
"Green Thoughts" (Collier), 608
"Green Tunnels" (Huxley), 1258
Greenberg, Joanne, 1069-1074; High Crimes and Misdemeanors, 1072;
"Hunting Season," 1071; "Supremacy of the Hunza, The," 1070; "Things in Their Season," 1072;
With the Snow Queen, 1073
Greene, Graham, 1074-1080, 2814; "Basement Room, The," 1077, 2814;
"Destructors, The," 1078, 2815; "Germinal," 1078; "Hint of an Explanation, The," 1075;
"Lost Childhood, The," 1075
Greene, Robert, 1081-1085, 2714; "Conversion of an English Courtizan," 1084; Disputation
Between a Hee Conny-Catcher and a Shee Conny-Catcher, A
, 1084; Greene's Groats-worth of
Witte Bought with a Million of Repentance
, 1082; Menaphon, 1082; Notable Discovery of
Cozenage, A
, 1083; Pandosto, 1082
Greene's Groats-worth of Witte Bought with a Million of Repentance (Greene, Graham), 1082
"Greenleaf" (O'Connor, Flannery), 1799, 2826
Gregory of Tours; Historia Francorum, 2682
Gregory the Great, 2682; Dialogues, 2682
Grettis saga, 2674
"Greyhound People" (Adams), 10
Gridr's Fosterling, Illugi, 2678
"Grieg on a Stolen Piano" (Mphahlele), 1718
Griffith, George, 2634
Grimm, Brothers, 1086-1092, 2658; "Cinderella," 1090; "Fisherman and His Wife, The," 1087;
"Godfather Death," 1088; Grimm's Fairy Tales, 1086; "Lady and the Lion, The," 1088;
"Little Farmer, The," 1089; "Rapunzel," 1088; "Singing Bone, The," 1090; "Six Soldiers of
Fortune," 1087; "Sleeping Beauty," 1089; "Snow White," 1090; "Violence," 1090;
"Wonderful Glass, The," 1088
Grimm's Fairy Tales (Grimm), 1086
Grobnica za Borisa Davidovi a. See Tomb for Boris Davidovich, A
"Grobovshchik." See "Undertaker, The"
"Grocer's Daughter" (Wiggins), 2518
"Grosse Fifi, La" (Rhys), 2032
Grotesque, 3061. See also "Category Index"
"Growing Season, The" (Caldwell), 406
"Growing Stone, The" (Camus, Albert), 431
"Growing Up" (Higuchi), 2931
"Guardagujas, El." See "Switchman, The"
"Guardapelo, El." See "Locket, The"
Guardian, The (Steele, Richard), 2214-2216
"Guatemalan Idyll, A" (Bowles, Jane), 307
"Güero, The" (Donoso), 757
"Guest, The" (Camus, Albert), 430, 2819
Guests of Mrs. Timms, The (Jewett), 1301
"Guests of the Nation" (O'Connor, Frank), 1804, 2815
"Guided Tours of Hell" (Prose), 1977, 1979
Guillaume d'Angleterre (Chrétien de Troyes), 569
Guilt Payment (Pak, Ty), 2884
Guilty vicarage crime fiction, 2617
"Guilty Woman, A" (Wescott), 2492
Guimarães Rosa, João, 1092-1095; "Thin Edge of Happiness, The," 1093
"Gulfport" (Smith), 2184
Gulistan. See Rose Garden, The
Gullason, Thomas, 2759
"Guns at Cyrano's" (Chandler), 508
Gwynne, Nell; "Miss Vandyke," 2900
Gynocriticism, 3061
"Gyofukuki." See "Transformation"
"Gypsy Delegate, The" (Hoch), 1214
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"Haguruma." See "Cogwheels"
"Haircut" (Lardner), 1435
Hale, Edward Everett; "Man Without a Country, The," 2777
Hale, Nancy, 1096-1101; "Arrangement in Parents, An," 1099; Empress's Ring, The, 1097;
"Entrance into Life," 1098; Heaven and Hardpan Farm, 1098; "Journeys," 1099;
Life in the Studio, The, 1099; "Miss August," 1097; "On the Beach," 1097;
"Pattern of Perfection, The," 1098; Pattern of Perfection, The, 1098; Realities of
Fiction, The
, 1099; "Rich People," 1098; Secrets, 1099; "Through the Dark Glass to
Reality," 1100; "Two Way Imagination, The," 1100
"Half-Holiday" (Huxley), 1258
"Half-Skinned Steer, The" (Proulx), 1982
"Halfway to Hell" (Collier), 606, 609
Haliburton, Thomas Chandler, 2899
Hall, Lawrence Sargent, 1101-1104; "Ledge, The," 1102; "Sequel, The," 1103;
"Twenty-three, Please," 1103
Halligan, Marion, 2888
"Hamlet of the Shchigrovsky District" (Turgenev), 2355
Hamðismál, 2684
"Hammer of God, The" (Chesterton), 559
"Hammer of God, The" (Clarke), 594
Hammett, Dashiell, 1104-1108, 2616; "House in Turk Street, The," 1106
"Hammon and the Beans, The" (Paredes), 2953
Hammon and the Beans and Other Stories, The (Paredes), 2953
Hams al-junnn (Mahfouz), 1587
"Hana." See "Nose, The"
"Right Hand, The" (Solzhenitsyn), 2190
"Hands" (Anderson), 78
"Handsome Is as Handsome Does" (Pritchett), 1971
Hangman, The (Lagerkvist), 1422
Hangman's Holiday (Sayers), 2618
Hannah, Barry, 1108-1111, 2837; Airships, 1109; Bats Out of Hell, 1110;
Captain Maximus, 1110; High Lonesome, 1110; "Testimony of Pilot," 2838;
"Water Liars," 2837
"Happily Ever After" (Huxley), 1257
"Happiness" (Lavin), 1447
"Happiness of Others, The" (Price), 1964
"Happy Birthday" (Lispector), 1519
"Happy Death, A" (Lavin), 1445
"Happy Memories Club" (Smith), 2186
Happy to Be Here (Keillor), 1353
"Hapworth 16, 1924" (Salinger), 2082
Hara, Marie, 2880
"Hard Candy" (Williams, Tennessee), 2526
Hard Time to Be a Father, A (Weldon), 2474
Hardy, Thomas, 1112-1118; "Barbara of the House of Grebe," 1115; "Distracted Preacher,
The," 1114; "Few Crusted Characters, A," 1115; "Fiddler of the Reels, The," 1114;
"Withered Arm, The," 1113
"Hardys, The" (Humphrey), 1246
Harjo, Joy, 1118-1121; "Boston," 1119; "Flood, The," 1119; "Northern Lights," 1119;
"Warrior Road," 1120; "Woman Who Fell from the Sky, The," 1120
Harlem Renaissance, 281, 1238, 1249, 2861
Harley Quin stories, 575
Harmony of the World (Baxter), 208
Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, 2858; "Two Offers, The," 2858
Harris, George Washington; "Mrs. Yardley's Quilting," 2779; "Sicily Burns's Wedding,"
2779; Sut Lovingood, 2779
Harris, Joel Chandler, 1121-1127, 2780; "Balaam and His Master," 1125; Balaam and
His Master and Other Sketches and Stories
, 1125; Free Joe and Other Georgian
Sketches
, 1124; "Free Joe and the Rest of the World," 1124; "How Mr. Rabbit Saved
His Meat," 1123; "Mingo," 1124; Mingo and Other Sketches in Black and White, 1124;
"Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again," 1123; "Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match at Last," 1123;
"Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter," 1123; Nights with Uncle Remus, 1124;
"Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, The," 1123; Uncle Remus, 1123; "Where's Duncan?," 1125;
"Wonderful Tar-Baby Story, The," 1123
Harris, Wendell, 2601, 2796
Harrison, Jim, 1127-1133; Brown Dog, 1130; Julip, 1131; Man Who
Gave Up His Name, The
, 1129; Revenge, 1128; Woman Lit by Fireflies, The, 1131
"Harrison Bergeron" (Vonnegut), 2419
"Harry Belten and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto" (Targan), 2288
Harte, Bret, 1133-1138; "Outcasts of Poker Flat, The," 1135; "Tennessee's Partner," 2777
"Harvest, The" (Hempel), 1181
Harvest, The (Rivera), 2954
Hasidic tale, 3061
"Hateful Word, The" (Welch), 2470
"Haunted and the Haunters, The" (Bulwer-Lytton), 2770
"Haunted Beach, The" (Adams), 12
"Haunted House, A" (Woolf), 2557
"Haunted Man, The" (Dickens), 729
"Haunted Palace, The" (Roberts), 2050
"Have a *Wonderful* Nice Walk" (Gilchrist), 996
Havelok the Dane, 2696
Hawkesworth, John, 1139-1143; Almoran and Hamet, 1141
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1143-1152, 2600, 2632, 2644, 2741, 2758, 2761-2762;
"Birthmark, The," 1148; "Ethan Brand," 1149; "May-Pole of Merrymount, The," 1147;
"Minister's Black Veil, The," 1146, 2763; "My Kinsman, Major Molineux," 1144-1145, 2741, 2763;
"Rappaccini's Daughter," 1148, 2764; "Roger Malvin's Burial," 1145; "Young Goodman
Brown," 1147, 2644, 2741, 2762
Hawthorne and the Modern Short Story (Rohrberger), 2758
"He" (Porter), 1951
Head, Bessie, 1152-1155; "Collector of Treasures, The," 1153; Collector of Treasures
and Other Botswana Village Tales, The
, 1153, 2854; "Coming of the Christ-Child, The," 1154;
"Life," 1154; "Lovers, The," 1154; "Prisoner Who Wore Glasses, The," 1154; "Witchcraft," 2854
Head, Dominic, 2612; Modernist Short Story, The, 2610
"Headwaiter" (Himes), 1206
"Health" (Williams), 2522
"Health Card" (Yerby), 2866
Hearn, Lafcadio, 1156-1159; Fantastics and Other Fancies, 1157; "Ghostly Kiss, The," 1157;
"In a Cup of Tea," 1158; Kotto, 1158; Kwaidan, 1158; Some Chinese Ghosts, 1157;
"Soul of the Great Bell, The," 1157; Stray Leaves from Strange Literature, 1158;
"Vision of the Dead Creole, The," 1157
"Heart" (Robison), 2055
Heart of Darkness (Conrad), 623, 2755
Heart of Happy Hollow, The (Dunbar), 796
"Heart of Stone, A" (Zoshchenko), 2592
"Heart of the Artichoke, The" (Gold), 1031
"Hearts Come Home" (Buck), 369
"Heat Lightning" (Smith), 2184
Heaven and Hardpan Farm (Hale), 1098
"Hector Quesadilla Story, The" (Boyle, T. C.), 328
"Hee-Haw!" (Warner), 2450
Hegemony, 3062
Heinlein, Robert A., 1159-1164; "`All You Zombies--'," 1162; "Blowups Happen," 2636;
"Coventry," 2636; "Green Hills of Earth, The," 1161; "Menace from Earth, The," 1162;
"Requiem," 2636; "--We Also Walk Dogs," 1160
Heliodorus; Ethiopian History, An, 2666
"Hell Most Feared" (Onetti), 1850
"Hell Screen" (Akutagawa), 39, 2932
"Hellgraue frühjahrsmantel, Der." See "Light Gray Spring Coat, The"
"Heloise." See "Heroine, The"
"Helping" (Stone), 2256
Helprin, Mark, 1164-1171; "Dove of the East, A," 1167; Dove of the East and Other
Stories, A
, 1166; Ellis Island and Other Stories, 1168; "Home Front, The," 1166;
"Jew of Persia, A," 1167; "Katherine Comes to Yellow Sky," 1166; "Katrina, Katrin'," 1166;
"Last Tea with the Armorers," 1170; "Letters from the Samantha", 1168;
"North Light," 1169; "Palais de Justice," 1169; "Room of Frail Dancers, A," 1169; "Schreuderspitze, The," 1168
Hemingway, Ernest, 1172-1179, 2606, 2805; "Hills Like White Elephants," 1174;
"In Another Country," 1174; "Killers, The," 1175, 2806; "Short Happy Life of Francis
Macomber, The," 1176; "Snows of Kilimanjaro, The," 1176, 2806; "Soldier's Home," 1175
Hempel, Amy, 1180-1183; "Harvest, The," 1181; "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is
Buried," 1180; "Most Girl Part of You, The," 1182; "Sportsman," 1182; "Today Will Be a
Quiet Day," 1181; Tumble Home, 1182
Henry, O., 1183-1187, 2791; "Cop and the Anthem, The," 2791; Gentle Grafter, The,
1186; "Gift of the Magi, The," 1184, 2791; "Past One at Rooney's," 1185;
"Ransom of Red Chief, The," 1186; Roads of Destiny, 1185; "Shearing the Wolf, The," 1186;
"Trimmed Lamp, The," 1185; "Unfinished Story, An ", 1185
Henryson, Robert; Morall Fabillis of Esope, the Phrygian, The, 2628
Heptameron, The (Marguerite de Navarre), 2705
"Her Table Spread" (Bowen), 301, 2922
"Her Whole Existence" (Himes), 1206
"Here Come the Maples" (Updike), 2381
Hermetics, 1428
"Hermitage" (Barnes), 171
"Hérodias" (Flaubert), 877
"Heroine, The" (Dinesen), 742
Hesiod; Works and Days, 2626
Hesse, Hermann, 1187-1193; "Evening with Dr. Faust, An," 1190; "Man by the Name of
Ziegler, A," 1188; "Poet, The," 1190; "Walter Kömpff," 1189
"Hey Sailor, What Ship?" (Olsen), 1845
Hichens, Robert S., 2648
Hicks, Granville, 2607
"Hiding" (Minot), 1687
"Higgler, The" (Coppard), 641
High Crimes and Misdemeanors (Greenberg), 1072
High Lonesome (Hannah), 1110
"Highland Widow, The" (Scott), 2122
Highsmith, Patricia, 1193-1200; Animal-Lover's Book of Beastly Murder, The,
1196; Black House, The, 1197; Little Tales of Misogyny, 1195; Mermaids on the
Golf Course and Other Stories
, 1198; "Quest for Blank Claveringi, The," 1195;
Slowly Slowly in the Wind, 1196; Snail-Watcher and Other Stories, The, 1194;
Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophe, 1198; "Terrapin, The," 1195
Higuchi Ichiyō, 2931; "Child's Play," 2931; "Growing Up," 2931
"Hijo." See "Son, The"
Hildebrandslied, The, 2685
Hildesheimer, Wolfgang, 1201-1204; "I Am Not Writing a Book on Kafka," 1202;
"Light Gray Spring Coat, The," 1202; "Sleep," 1203; "World Ends, A," 1203
"Hill of Evil Counsel, The" (Oz), 1862
"Hills Like White Elephants" (Hemingway), 1174
Him with His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories (Bellow), 236
Himes, Chester, 1204-1209; "All He Needs Is Feet," 1207; "Headwaiter," 1206;
"Her Whole Existence," 1206; "His Last Day," 1206; "Lunching at the Ritzmore," 1207;
"Nigger, A," 1206; "So Softly Smiling," 1207; "Tang," 1207
"Hint of an Explanation, The" (Greene, Graham), 1075
Hiraoka, Kimitake. See Mishima, Yukio
"His Last Day" (Himes), 1206
"His Wife's Deceased Sister" (Stockton), 2253
Hispanic, 2949. See also Latino culture, Chicano
Historia Brittonum (Nennius), 2693
Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. See Ecclesiastical History of the
English People

Historia Francorum (Gregory of Tours), 2682
Historical criticism, 3062
"History of a Self-Tormentor, The" (Dickens), 727
History of the Kings of Britain (Geoffrey of Monmouth), 2694
History of the Nun, The (Behn), 2723
"Hitchhiking Game, The" (Kundera), 1415
Hoax, The (Svevo), 2270
Hoch, Edward D., 1210-1216; "Christmas Client, The," 1214; "Detective's Wife, The," 1214;
Diagnosis: Impossible, 1212; "Gypsy Delegate, The," 1214; "I'd Know You Anywhere," 1212;
Leopold's Way, 1213; "Problem of the General Store, The," 1213; Quests of
Simon Ark, The
, 1211; "Sacajawea's Gold," 1212; Spy and the Thief, The, 1212;
"Sweating Statue, The," 1214; "Theft of the General's Trash, The," 1213
Hodgson, William Hope, 2648; "Voice of the Night, The," 2634
Hoffmann, E. T. A., 1216-1222, 2643; "Councillor Krespel," 1219; "Doge and Dogaressa,"
1220; "Fragment of the Lives of Three Friends, A," 1219; Golden Flower Pot, The, 1219;
"Interrupted Cadence, An," 1220; "Mademoiselle de Scudéry," 1219; "Mines of Falun, The," 1219;
"New Year's Eve Adventure, A," 1220; Princess Brambilla, 1220;
"Sandman, The," 1220; Signor Formica, 1220; "Story of Serapion, The," 1218
"Hoffmeier's Antelope" (Swift), 2273
Hogan, Desmond; "Diamonds at the Bottom of the Sea," 2926
"Hokuro no Tegami." See "Mole, The"
Hold On (Douglas), 767
"Hole in the Day" (Tilghman), 2318
"Hole That Jack Dug, The" (Sargeson), 2894
"Holiday" (Porter), 1955
"Holidays" (Kincaid), 1365
"Hollow Stone, A" (Oz), 1863
Holmes, Sherlock, 776-777, 2613, 2615
Holy Place (Fuentes), 926
"Hombre muerto, El." See "Dead Man, The"
Hombres de maíz. See Men of Maize
"Home" (Grau), 1068
"Home" (Phillips), 2834
"Home Front, The" (Helprin), 1166
"Home Is Where" (Adams), 10
"Home Sickness" (Moore, George), 2917
"Homeland" (Kingsolver), 1376
Homeland and Other Stories (Kingsolver), 1376
Homer, 1222-1227, 2661; Iliad, 1223, 2661-2662; Odyssey, 1225, 2661-2663
Homewood Trilogy, The. See Damballah
Honchō nijū fukō (Ihara Saikaku), 1265
"Honey" (Tallent), 2278
"Honeysuckle, The" (Marie de France), 1627
Honwana, Luís Bernardo; "Old Woman, The," 2848; "Papa, Snake, and I," 2847; "We Killed
Mangy-Dog," 2847; We Killed Mangy-Dog and Other Mozambique Stories, 2847
Hood, Hugh, 2754
"Hook" (Clark), 588
Hopkins, Pauline Elizabeth, 2859; "Mystery Within Us, The," 2859
Hopkins, Sarah Winnemucca, 2962
Horace, 2661; Satires, 2627
"Horla, The" (Maupassant), 1657, 2793
Hornung, E. W., 2615
Horse and Two Goats and Other Stories, A (Narayan), 1753
"Horse Dealer's Daughter, The" (Lawrence), 1453, 2813
"Horse That Could Whistle `Dixie,'" The" (Weidman), 2464
Hosain, Attia, 2974
Hospital, Janette Turner, 1228-1231; "After Long Absence," 1229; "Golden Girl," 1229;
"Litany for the Homeland," 1229; "Unperformed Experiments Have No Results," 1230;
"You Gave Me Hyacinths," 1229
"Hostages" (Wideman), 2513
"Hôte, L'." See "Guest, The"
Hour of Last Things and Other Stories, An (Elliott), 828
"Hour of Letdown, The" (White), 2508
Hous of Fame (Chaucer), 520
"House in Turk Street, The" (Hammett), 1106
House Made of Dawn (Momaday), 2960, 2962
"House of Cobwebs" (Gissing), 2797
House of Sleep, The (Kavan), 1342
House of the Sleeping Beauties, The (Kawabata), 1348
House on Mango Street, The (Cisneros), 580
"Housekeeper" (Grau), 1067
"Houses" (Leavitt), 1466
Houston, Pam, 1231-1233; "Best Girlfriend You Never Had, The," 1232; "Moving from
One Body of Water to Another," 1233; "Waltzing the Cat," 1233; Waltzing the Cat, 1232
"How Beautiful with Shoes" (Steele, Wilbur Daniel), 2219
"How I Became a Holy Mother" (Jhabvala), 1304
"How I Finally Lost My Heart" (Lessing), 1497
"How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (Hurston), 2863
"How It Was Done in Odessa" (Babel), 130
"How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat" (Harris, Joel Chandler), 1123
"How Sharp Snaffles Got His Capital and His Wife" (Simms), 2148
"How the Devil Came Down Division Street" (Algren), 60
"How to Tell a Story" (Twain), 2778
Howard, Elizabeth Jane, 2652
Howard, Robert E., 2651
Howe, Irving, 2605
Howells, William Dean, 1234-1237, 2604, 2787; "Angel of the Lord, The," 1236;
"Difficult Case, A," 1235; "Editha," 1236, 2787; "Magic of a Voice, The," 1235
Hrafnkel's Saga, 2676
Hreidar the Fool, 2677
"Hua ma." See "Picture Horse, The"
"Hua p'i." See "Painted Skin, The"
"Hubert and Minnie" (Huxley), 1258
"Hue and Cry" (McPherson), 1583
Hue and Cry (McPherson), 2867
Hughes, Langston, 1238-1243, 2863; "Big Meeting," 1241; Big Sea, The, 1238;
"Fine Accommodations," 1241; "Little Dog," 1239; "Professor," 1240; "Thank You M'am," 1240
"Hull Case, The" (Davies, Peter Ho), 693
"Human Element, The" (Maugham), 1649
Humishuma, 2964; Cogewea, the Halfblood, 2964
Humphrey, William, 1243-1249; "Apple of Discord, The," 1247; "Fresh Snow, A," 1246;
"Hardys, The," 1246; "Last Husband, The," 1246; Last Husband and Other Stories, The, 1245;
"Mouth of Brass," 1246; "Quail for Mr. Forester," 1246; September Song, 1247;
Time and a Place, A, 1246; "Voice from the Woods, A," 1246
Hunger (Chang), 511
"Hunger" (Rhys), 2032
"Hunter" (Grau), 1067
"Hunters in the Snow" (Wolff), 2551
"Hunting Season" (Greenberg), 1071
"Hurrah for Freedom" (Lind), 1514
Hurston, Zora Neale, 1249-1255, 2861; "Black Death," 2862; "Cock Robin, Beale Street,"
1253; "Drenched in Light," 2862; "Gilded Six-Bits, The," 1253, 2862; "How It Feels to Be
Colored Me," 2863; "John Redding Goes to Sea," 1252, 2861; Mules and Men, 2863;
"Muttsy," 2862; "Spunk," 1252, 2862; "Sweat," 1253
Huxley, Aldous, 1255-1260; "Chawdron," 1258; "Cynthia," 1258; "Fard," 1258;
"Green Tunnels," 1258; "Half-Holiday," 1258; "Happily Ever After," 1257;
"Hubert and Minnie," 1258; "Little Mexican," 1259; "Portrait, The," 1258;
"Rest Cure, The," 1258; "Uncle Spencer," 1258; "Young Archimedes," 1259
Hyder, Qurratulain, 2972
"Hymeneal" (O'Faoláin), 1820
Hyperbole, 3062
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"`I Always Wanted You to Admire My Fasting'" (Roth), 2063
"I Am a Fool" (Anderson), 81
I Am Lazarus (Kavan), 1341
"I Am Not Writing a Book on Kafka" (Hildesheimer), 1202
"I Am Twenty-One" (Robison), 2056
I Cannot Get You Close Enough (Gilchrist), 995
"I Do What I Can and I Am What I Am" (Weldon), 2474
"I-80 Nebraska, m. 490-m. 205" (Sayles), 2104
"I Just Love Carrie Lee" (Douglas), 767
"I Knew What I Was Doing" (Weidman), 2464
I-novel, 2932
"I See London, I See France" (Leavitt), 1465
I Sing the Body Electric! (Bradbury), 338
"I Stand Here Ironing" (Olsen), 1845
"I Used to Live Here Once" (Rhys), 2034
"Iazvitel'nyi." See "Stinger, The"
"Ice" (Tallent), 2277
"Ice House, The" (Gordon, Caroline), 1050
Icelandic culture, 2669-2670
"Ich schreibe kein buch über Kafka." See "I Am Not Writing a Book on Kafka"
"Icicle, The" (Sinyavsky), 2168
"I'd Know You Anywhere" (Hoch), 1212
Idea-as-hero story, 2634, 2636
"Ideal Craftsman, An" (de la Mare), 707
"Idiots First" (Malamud), 1599
"Idle Days on the Yann" (Dunsany), 800
Idrimi, 2658
"If Not Higher" (Peretz), 1909
"If They Knew Yvonne" (Dubus), 790
"If You Don't Want to Live I Can't Help You" (Calisher), 411
Ihara Saikaku, 1261-1267, 2930; Budf denraiki, 1265; Five Women Who Loved
Love
, 1263, 2930; "Gengobei, the Mountain of Love," 2930; Great Mirror of Male
Love, The
, 1265, 2930; Honchf nijn fukf, 1265; Japanese Family Storehouse, The,
1265; Saikaku okimiyage, 1266; Saikaku shokoku-banashi, 1265; Tales of
Samurai Honor
, 1265; Worldly Mental Calculations, 1266
"Iisusov grekh." See "Sin of Jesus, The"
Il Novellino: The Hundred Old Tales, 2701
Iliad (Homer), 1223, 2661-2662
Illustrated Man, The (Bradbury), 336
Im Land der Umbramauten (Meckel), 1661
"I'm Not Talking About That, Now" (Magona), 2855
"I'm Your Horse in the Night" (Valenzuela), 2387
"Image-Vendor, The" (Okri), 1840
Imagery, 3062
"Imagination Dead Imagine" (Beckett), 222
Impressionism, 2787, 2790, 2796, 2801. See also "Category Index"
In a Café (Lavin), 1447
"In a Café" (Mansfield), 1619
"In a Cup of Tea" (Hearn), 1158
"In a Father's Place" (Tilghman), 2318
"In a Glass Darkly" (Christie), 575
In a Glass Darkly (Le Fanu), 1472
"In a Grove" (Akutagawa), 39, 2932
"In a Strange Country" (Ellison, Ralph), 839
"In a Thicket" (Wescott), 2492
"In a Word, Trowbridge" (Stern), 2243
"In Another Country" (Hemingway), 1174
"In Between the Sheets" (McEwan), 1564
"In Corner B" (Mphahlele), 1719
"In Darkness and Confusion" (Petry), 1919
"In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" (Schwartz, Delmore), 2113
"In Greenwich There Are Many Gravelled Walks" (Calisher), 410
"In guter hut." See "Waiting-Room, The"
In His Own Country (Callaghan), 418
"In Jewel" (Robison), 2056
In Love and Trouble (Walker), 2430, 2868
In medias res, 3062
In Old Plantation Days (Dunbar), 796
"In Old Russia" (Zamyatin), 2575
"In Spain, One Thousand and Three" (Byers), 392
"In the Alley" (Elkin), 822
"In the Autumn of the Year" (Oates), 1776
"In the Basement" (Babel), 130
"In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried" (Hempel), 1180
"In the City of Red Dust" (Okri), 1841
"In the Cutting of a Drink" (Aidoo), 2852
"In the Forest" (de la Mare), 706
"In the Garden" (Paley), 1875
"In the Garden of the North American Martyrs" (Wolff), 2551
In the Garden of the North American Martyrs (Wolff), 2551
"In the Heart of the Heart of the Country" (Gass), 978
"In the Loyal Mountains" (Bass), 195
In the Midst of Life. See Tales of Soldiers and Civilians
"In the Realm of the Heron" (Kaplan), 1336
"In the Region of Ice" (Oates), 1775
"In the Steppe" (Gorky), 1058
"In the Train" (O'Connor, Frank), 1804
In the Village of Viger (Scott), 2901
"In Youth Is Pleasure" (Gallant), 943
Inada, Lawson Fusao, 2877
"Incautious Burglar, The" (Carr), 467
"Incident at Krechetovka Station" (Solzhenitsyn), 2189
"Incident on a Lake" (Collier), 607
Incidents at the Shrine (Okri), 1839
Incognita (Congreve), 612, 2724
"Incredible Voyage" (Endō), 844
Increíble y triste historia de la Cándida Eréndira y de su abuela desalmada, La.
See "New Islands"
"Ind Aff or Out of Love in Sarajevo" (Weldon), 2474
Indian Boyhood (Eastman), 2963
Indian culture, 2972. See also "Category Index"; "Geographical Index"
"Indian Summer of a Forsyte, The" (Galsworthy), 947
"Indian Uprising, The" (Barthelme, Donald), 185
"Indian Well, The" (Clark), 588
Industrial Age, 2726
"Infant Prodigy, The" (Mann), 1611
Inferno, The (Dante), 672
"Infinite Passion of Expectation, The" (Berriault), 250
"Inhabitant of Carcosa, An" (Bierce), 2649
Initiation story, 3062
Injustice Collectors, The (Auchincloss), 118
"Inkle and Yarico" (Steele, Richard), 2215
"Innocence" (Brodkey), 356-357
Innocent and the Guilty, The (Warner), 2453
Innocent Eréndira and Other Stories (García Márquez), 954
Innocent Eréndira Islas nuevas, Las. See "New Islands"
"Inside the Frame" (Coover), 636
"Interference" (Barnes), 170
Interior monologue, 3062
"Intermission" (Coover), 636
Interpretation, 3062
"Interpreter of Maladies, The" (Gates), 1425
Interpreter of Maladies (Lahiri), 2975
"Interrupted Cadence, An" (Hoffmann), 1220
"Into the Cone of Cold" (Elliott), 828
"Intruder, The" (Dixon), 751
"Intruder, The" (Dubus), 789
"Intruder, The" (Gates), 982
"Intruder, The" (Gordimer), 1042
"Inventing the Abbotts" (Miller), 1681
"Inverno di malato" (Moravia), 1705
"Invisible Dove Dancer of Strathpheen Island, The" (Collier), 609
"Invisible Hands" (Carr), 467
"Invisible Lover, The" (Queen), 2015
Invisible Man (Ellison), 2865
Ireland, 2914-2927; 1880-1920, 2800; 1920-1960, 2815. See also
"Geographical Index"
"Irene" (Bell), 231
Irish Literary Revival, 1322
"Irish Revel, The" (O'Brien, Edna), 2923
"Iron Will" (Leskov), 1492
Irrealism, 3062. See also "Category Index"
Irving, Washington, 1268-1273, 2600, 2643, 2738, 2756; "Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The,"
1271; "Little Man in Black, The," 1269, 2738; "Rip Van Winkle," 1270, 2738-2740;
Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., The, 2644; "Sketches from Nature," 1269;
"Spectre Bridegroom, The," 1270
"Is There Nowhere Else Where We Can Meet?" (Gordimer), 1041
"Island, The" (Jackson), 1275
Island Like You, An (Ortiz), 2958
"Island of Monkeys, The" (Dazai), 701
Islanders, The (Zamyatin), 2574
"Islands on the Moon" (Kingsolver), 1377
Íslendingabók. See Book of the Icelanders
Issei, 2877
"Istoriia moei golubiatni." See "Story of My Dovecote, The"
Italian culture, 2702. See also "Category Index"
Italy, 2733. See also "Geographical Index"
"Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt" (Gogol), 1025
Ivar's Story, 2678
"Izu Dancer, The" (Kawabata), 1346
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"Jackrabbit" (Chan), 2875
Jackson, Shirley, 1274-1279; "Beautiful Stranger, The," 1275; "Island, The," 1275;
"Little House, The," 1275; "Lottery, The," 1277; "Louisa, Please," 1275;
"Pillar of Salt," 1276; "Tooth, The," 1275; "Visit, The," 1276
Jacobs, W. W., 1279-1282, 2648; "Blundell's Improvement," 1281; "Contraband," 1280;
"Monkey's Paw, The," 1281
"Jade Buddhas, Red Bridges, Fruits of Love" (Gilchrist), 993
"Jakarta" (Munro), 1736
James, Henry, 1283-1291, 2649, 2789; "Altar of the Dead, The," 1287; "Aspern Papers,
The," 1286; "Beast in the Jungle, The," 1288; Daisy Miller, 1285, 2783;
"Figure in the Carpet, The," 1287; "Jolly Corner, The," 1289; "Real Thing, The," 1286, 2789
James, M. R., 1291-1296, 2647; "Lost Hearts," 1293; "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad," 1294
"Janet's Repentance" (Eliot), 818
"Janus" (Beattie), 214, 2832
Japan, 2928-2935; medieval, 2929; 1600-1868, 2930; modern, 2931; 900-1600, 2928;
1920-1960, 2821. See also "Geographical Index"
Japanese American culture, 2877, 2880. See also "Category Index"
Japanese Family Storehouse, The (Ihara Saikaku), 1265
Japanese Tales (Tyler, Royall), 2929
"Jasmine" (Mukherjee), 1726
"Je Ne Parle Pas Français" (Mansfield), 1619
"Je Suis le Plus Malade des Surrealistes" (Nin), 1762
"Jean Beicke" (Williams, William Carlos), 2532
"Jean-Pierre" (Spencer), 2206
"Jean-ah Poquelin" (Cable), 397, 2780
Jeannot and Colin (Voltaire), 2413
"Jeffrey, Believe Me" (Smiley), 2177
"Jeffty Is Five" (Ellison, Harlan), 835
Jen, Gish; Who's Irish?, 2876
"Jerusalem's Lot" (King), 1370
Jest-books, 2718
"Jew of Persia, A" (Helprin), 1167
"Jewbird, The" (Malamud), 1600
Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1296-1302; Country of the Pointed Firs, The, 1297-1298;
Guests of Mrs. Timms, The, 1301; "Martha's Lady," 1300; "Only Rose, The," 1299;
"White Heron, A," 1298
Jewish culture, 2811, 2827, 2836. See also "Category Index";
"Geographical Index"
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1302-1306, 2972-2973, 2976; "Course of English Studies, A," 1304;
East into Upper East, 2976; "Fidelity," 1305; "How I Became a Holy Mother," 1304;
"Old Lady, The," 1304
"Jockey, The" (McCullers), 1557
"John Napper Sailing Through the Universe" (Gardner), 959
"John Redding Goes to Sea" (Hurston), 1252, 2861
"John Sherman" (Yeats), 2568
John Silence (Blackwood), 264
"Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams" (Plath), 1934
"Johnny Pye and the Fool-Killer" (Benét), 246
Johnson, Charles, 1306-1309; "ALE-THIA," 1308; "China," 1308; "Education of Mingo,
The," 1307; "Kwoon," 1308
Johnson, Denis, 1310-1313; "Beverly Home," 1311; "Car Crash While Hitchhiking," 1311;
"Dirty Wedding," 1312; "Emergency," 1311
Johnson, E. Pauline, 2962; Legends of Vancouver, 2962; "Red Girl's Reasoning, A," 2962
Johnson, Samuel, 1314-1319; Rasselas, 1316
"Jolly Corner, The" (James, Henry), 1289
Jones, Edith Newbold. See Wharton, Edith
Jones, Everett LeRoi. See Baraka, Amiri
Jones, Thom, 2838; "White Horse, The," 2838
"Jongleur de Notre-Dame, Le." See "Juggler of Our Lady, The"
"Jordan's End" (Glasgow), 1011
Joseph Conrad (O'Flaherty), 1827
"Joshua" (Grau), 1066
"Journey Through the Night" (Lind), 1515
"Journey to Petrópolis" (Lispector), 1519
"Journey to the Seven Streams, A" (Kiely), 1357
"Journeys" (Hale), 1099
"Joy Luck Club, The" (Tan), 2281
Joy Luck Club, The (Tan), 2281
Joyce, James, 1319-1327, 2801, 2917; "Araby," 2918; "Dead, The," 1322-1323, 1326,
2801, 2918; Dubliners, 1321, 2801; "Eveline," 2917; "Grace," 1323;
"Painful Case, A," 1323
"Joycelin Shrager Story, The" (Disch), 747
"Juan Darién" (Quiroga), 2021
"Judas" (O'Connor, Frank), 2921
"Judas Tree, The" (Welch), 2468
"Judgement Day" (O'Connor, Flannery), 1800
"Judgment, The" (Kafka), 1330
"Juggler of Our Lady, The" (France), 900
Jules Verne Steam Balloon, The (Davenport), 688
"Julia and the Bazooka" (Kavan), 1342
Julia and the Bazooka and Other Stories (Kavan), 1342
"Julia Cahill's Curse" (Moore, George), 2800, 2916
Julip (Harrison), 1131
Junglee Girl (Kamani), 2885
"Junior" (Lewis), 1506
"Junius Maltby" (Steinbeck), 2236
"Jūrokusai no nikki." See "Diary of a Sixteen-Year-Old"
"Just Like a Tree" (Gaines), 934
Just So Stories (Kipling), 1392
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"Kabnis" (Toomer), 2338
Kafka, Franz, 1328-1335, 2646; "Before the Law," 1332; "Bucket Rider, The," 1332; "Country Doctor, A," 1333; "Give It Up!," 1331; "Judgment, The," 1330; Metamorphosis, The, 2794
"Kafkas" (Wiggins), 2517
"Kak eto delalos v Odesse." See "How It Was Done in Odessa"
Kamani, Ginu, 2885; Junglee Girl, 2885
"Kamennoe serdtse." See "Heart of Stone, A"
"Kamienny kwiat." See "World of Stone"
Kaplan, David Michael, 1336-1339; "Comfort," 1337; "Doe Season," 1337;
"Elisabetta, Carlotta, Catherine," 1337; "In the Realm of the Heron," 1336;
"Love, Your Only Mother," 1336; "Skating in the Dark," 1338; Skating in the Dark, 1338;
"Summer People," 1336
Kappa, 40
"Kataude." See "One Arm" (Kawabata)
"Katherine Comes to Yellow Sky" (Helprin), 1166
"Katrina, Katrin'" (Helprin), 1166
Kavan, Anna, 1339-1344; "Asylum Piece," 1341; "Birthmark, The," 1340; "Fog, The," 1342;
"Going Up in the World," 1340; House of Sleep, The, 1342; I Am Lazarus, 1341;
"Julia and the Bazooka," 1342; Julia and the Bazooka and Other Stories, 1342;
My Soul in China, 1343; "Old Address, The," 1342; "Palace of Sleep, The," 1341;
"There Is No End," 1341; "World of Heroes, The," 1342
Kawabata, Yasunari, 1344-1349, 2933; "Diary of a Sixteen-Year-Old," 1346; House of the Sleeping Beauties, The, 1348; "Izu Dancer, The," 1346; "Man Who
Did Not Smile, The," 1347; "Mole, The," 1347; "Moon on the Water, The," 1347;
"Of Birds and Beasts," 1347; "One Arm," 1348; Palm-of-the-Hand Stories, 2933;
Snow Country, 2933
"Keela, the Outcast Indian Maiden" (Welty), 2484
Keillor, Garrison, 1350-1356; Happy to Be Here, 1353; Lake Wobegon Days,
1353; Leaving Home, 1353; Prairie Home Companion, A, 1354;
"Wake, The," 1354; We Are Still Married, 1354
Kenny, Maurice; "What's in a Song," 2969
"Kepi, The" (Colette), 602
"Kerchief, The" (Agnon), 25
"Kew Gardens" (Woolf), 2557
"Khat" (Dreiser), 785
"Kholstomer." See "Strider"
"Khor and Kalynich" (Turgenev), 2354
"Khor'i Kalynich." See "Khor and Kalynich"
Kibert, Declan, 2915
"Kid in the Stove, The" (Kinsella), 1386. See also Silas Ermineskin stories
Kiely, Benedict, 1356-1362; "Ball of Malt and Madame Butterfly, A," 1357;
"Bluebell Meadow," 1360; "Cow in the House, A," 1357; "Down Then by Derry," 1360;
"Journey to the Seven Streams, A," 1357; "Maiden's Leap," 1359
"Killers,
The" (Hemingway), 1175, 2806
"Killing of Colin Moosefeathers, The" (Kinsella), 1385. See also Silas Ermineskin stories
Kincaid, Jamaica, 1362-1367, 2869, 2947; "At the Bottom of the River," 1365;
"Circling Hand, The," 2870; "Girl," 1364, 2869; "Holidays," 1365; "Letter from Home, The," 1365;
"My Mother," 1365; "What I Have Been Doing Lately," 1365; "Xuela," 1366
"Kind of Light That Shines on Texas, The" (McKnight), 1579
"King, The" (Babel), 130
King, Stephen, 1368-1374, 2652; "Ballad of the Flexible Bullet, The," 1372;
"Body, The," 1371; "Jerusalem's Lot," 1370; "Man in the Black Suit, The," 1372; "Mangler, The," 1370;
"Monkey, The," 1370; "One for the Road," 1370; "Trucks," 1370; "Woman in the Room, The," 1371
King, Thomas, 2905
"King Caliban" (Wain), 2426
"King Candaules" (Gautier), 986
"King Lear of the Steppes" (Turgenev), 2356
"King of the Bingo Game" (Ellison, Ralph), 839
"King of the Trenches, The" (Lewis), 1507
Kingdoms of Elfin (Warner), 2454
"King's Ankus, The" (Kipling), 1392
"King's Indian, The" (Gardner), 960
King's Indian, The (Gardner), 958
"Kingsmeat" (Card), 447
Kingsolver, Barbara, 1374-1377; "Homeland," 1376; Homeland and Other Stories, 1376;
"Islands on the Moon," 1377
Kingston, Maxine Hong, 1378-1381; "Adventures of Lo Bun Sun, The," 1380; China
Men
, 1380; "Laws, The," 1380; "No Name Woman," 1379; "On Discovery," 1380; "White Tigers," 1380
"Kinjn." See "Of Birds and Beasts"
Kinsella, W. P., 1382-1388; "Book Buyers, The," 1383; "Brother Frank's Gospel Hour," 1387;
"Bull," 1386; "Evangeline's Mother," 1383; "Kid in the Stove, The," 1386;
"Killing of Colin Moosefeathers, The," 1385; "Last Pennant Before Armageddon, The," 1384;
"Thrill of the Grass, The," 1384
"Kinsman of His Blood, A" (Wolfe), 2546
Kipling, Rudyard, 1388-1396, 1646, 2606, 2798; "Beyond the Pale," 1390;
"Brushwood Boy, The," 1391; "Dayspring Mishandled," 1394; "Dymchurch Flit," 1392;
Just So Stories, 1392; "King's Ankus, The," 1392; "Love-o'-Women," 1390;
"Man Who Would Be King, The," 2799; "Mary Postgate," 1394; "Mrs. Bathurst," 1392;
"Phantom 'Rickshaw, The," 1391; Puck of Pook's Hill, 1392; "They," 1394;
"Wish House, The," 1391
Kiš, Danilo, 1397-1400; Early Sorrows, 1398; "Encyclopedia of the Dead," 1399;
"Knife with the Rosewood Handle, The," 1399; "Pages from a Velvet Album," 1398;
"Sow That Eats Her Farrow, The," 1399; Tomb for Boris Davidovich, A, 1398
"Kite and Paint" (Robison), 2054
Klausner, Amos. See Oz, Amos
Klein, T. E. D., 2652
"Kleine Herr Friedemann, Der." See "Little Herr Friedemann"
Kleist, Heinrich von, 1400-1406; "Beggarwoman of Locarno, The," 1404;
"Earthquake in Chile, The," 1401; "Foundling, The," 1403; "Marionette Theater, The," 1402;
Michael Kohlhaas, 1403; Prince of Homburg, The, 1400; "St. Cecilia," 1404
"Kneel to the Rising Sun" (Caldwell), 406
"Knife Thrower, The" (Millhauser), 1685
Knife Thrower and Other Stories, The (Millhauser), 1684
"Knife with the Rosewood Handle, The" (Kiš), 1399
Knight, Damon, 2638
"Knight's Tale, The" (Chaucer), 525
"Knights and Dragons" (Spencer), 2205
"Knight's Tale, The" (Chaucer), 525
"Knot, The" (Minot), 1688
Knowles, John, 1406-1411; "Phineas," 1409; Phineas, 1407; "Turn with the Sun, A," 1408
"Knoxville" (Agee), 20
"Kobutori." See "Taking the Wen Away"
"Kohei." See "Currency"
"Kolacje." See "Supper, The"
Kompromiss. See Compromise, The
"Konets bogadel'ni." See "End of the Old Folks' Home, The"
"Kong yiji" (Lu), 1545
Konjaku monogatari. See Tales of Times Now Past
Kōno Taeko, 2934; "Toddler-Hunting," 2934
"Kool-Aid Wino, The" (Brautigan), 344
"Korea" (McGahern), 1567
Korean American culture, 2883
Kornbluth, Cyril M., 2637
Kōshoku gonin onna. See Five Women Who Loved Love
Kotto (Hearn), 1158
Kreutzer Sonata, The (Tolstoy), 2332
"Kristu-Du" (Carey) , 452
"Kübelreiter, Der" See "Bucket Rider, The"
"Kugelmass Episode, The" (Allen), 64
"Kumo no ito." See "Spider's Thread, The"
Kundera, Milan, 1412-1419; "Edward and God," 1416; "Golden Apple of Eternal Desire,
The," 1417; "Hitchhiking Game, The," 1415; Laughable Loves, 1414; "Let the Old
Dead Make Room for the Young Dead," 1416; "Nobody Will Laugh," 1414;
"Symposium," 1416
"Kuno no nenkan." See "Almanac of Pain, An"
Kurosawa, Akira, 39
"Kvartiranty." See "Tenants"
Kwaidan (Hearn), 1158
"Kwoon" (Johnson, Charles), 1308
Kyng Alisaunder, 2692
"Kyōfu." See "Terror"
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"Labor Day Dinner" (Munro), 1734
Labours of Hercules (Christie), 2620
"Lady, A" (Donoso), 757
"Lady" (Friedman), 918
"Lady and the Lion, The" (Grimm), 1088
"Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District" (Leskov), 1491
"Lady on the Grey, The" (Collier), 608
Lady Susan (Austen), 125
La Fontaine, Jean de, 2629
Lagerkvist, Pär, 1420-1423; Eternal Smile, The, 1421; "Far och jag," 1422;
Hangman, The, 1422; "Lilla fälttåget, Det," 1422
"Lagoon, The" (Conrad), 622
Lagoon, The (Frame), 2894
La Guma, Alex; "A Walk in the Night," 2854
Lahiri, Jhumpa, 1424-1427, 2972, 2975; "Interpreter of Maladies, The," 1425, 2975;
"Temporary Matter, A," 1425; "Third and Final Continent, The," 1426; When Mr. Pirzada
Came to Dinner
, 1425
Lai, 3062
Lais (Marie de France), 1625
"Laissé-pour-compte, Le." See "Misfit, The"
Lake Wobegon Days (Keillor), 1353
Lake Wobegon stories (Keillor), 1352
Lamb, Charles; "Dream Children," 2745
"Lamb to the Slaughter" (Dahl), 665
"Lame Shall Enter First, The" (O'Connor, Flannery), 1799
"Lamia in the Cévennes, A" (Byatt), 389
Lancelot (Chrétien de Troyes), 569, 2695
"Land of Exile" (Pavese), 1894
Land Without Thunder (Ogot), 2853
"Landarzt, Ein." See "Country Doctor, A"
"Landfill Meditation" (Vizenor), 2407
Landnámabók. See Book of Settlements
Landolfi, Tommaso, 1427-1433; Cancerqueen, 1430; "Gogol's Wife," 1431;
"Mute, The," 1431; Two Old Maids, The, 1429
Landwirth, Heinz. See Lind, Jakov
Lang Xian, 2909
"Lantern Slides" (O'Brien, Edna), 2923
"Lanval" (Marie de France), 1626
Lao She, 2909, 2911
"Lappin and Lapinova" (Woolf), 2557
Lapse of Time (Wang), 2445
Lardner, Ring, 1434-1438; "Champion," 1435; "Ex Parte," 1436; "Golden Honeymoon," 1436;
"Haircut," 1435; "Some Like Them Cold," 1436
Larson, Charles; Under African Skies, 2846
Las Casas, Bartolomé de, 2939
"Las Vegas Charley" (Yamamoto), 2879
"Last Class, The" (Daudet), 679
"Last Day, The" (Verga), 2396
"Last Day in the Field, The" (Gordon, Caroline), 1048
"Last Escapade, The" (Alarcón), 44
"Last Frontier, The" (Schwartz, Lynne Sharon), 2119
"Last Husband, The" (Humphrey), 1246
Last Husband and Other Stories, The (Humphrey), 1245
"Last Kiss" (Fitzgerald), 869
Last Lovely City, The (Adams), 12
"Last May" (Dixon), 750
"Last Mohican, The" (Malamud), 1598, 2827
Last of Chéri, The (Colette), 2818
Last of the Menu Girls, The (Chavez), 2956
"Last Pennant Before Armageddon, The" (Kinsella), 1384
"Last Tea with the Armorers" (Helprin), 1170
"Late Love" (Oz), 1863
Latin America, 2822, 2936-2948. See also "Geographical Index"
Latino culture, 2936, 2944, 2949-2959. See also "Category Index"
Laughable Loves (Kundera), 1414
"Laura Borealis" (Reid), 2029
Laurence, Margaret, 1438-1442; "Bird in the House, A," 1441; Bird in the House,
A
, 1441; "Drummer of All the World, The," 1441; "Perfume Sea, The," 1440;
"Tomorrow-Tamer, The," 1440; Tomorrow-Tamer, The (Laurence), 1440;
"Voices of Adamo, The," 1440
"Laüstic" (Marie de France), 1627
Lavin, Mary, 1443-1449, 2923; "At Sallygap," 1445; "Eterna," 1447; "Girders, The," 1448;
"Great Wave, The," 2923; "Happiness," 1447; "Happy Death, A," 1445; In a Café, 1447;
"Miss Holland," 1444; "Sarah," 2923; "Say Could That Lad Be I," 1446;
"Senility," 1446; Tales from Bective Bridge, 2923; "Tom," 1446
"Law of Life" (London), 1524
Lawley Road (Narayan), 1753
"Lawns" (Simpson), 2155
Lawrence, D. H., 1449-1457, 2813; "Blind Man, The," 1452; "Crown, The," 1454; Fox,
The
, 2814; "Horse Dealer's Daughter, The," 1453, 2813; Man Who Died, The, 1455;
"Odour of Chrysanthemums," 1451; "Princess, The," 1455; "Prussian Officer, The," 1453, 2814;
St. Mawr, 1455; "Shades of Spring, The," 1452; "Shadow in the Rose Garden, The," 1452;
"Tickets, Please," 2813; "Woman Who Rode Away, The," 1455; "You Touched Me," 1453
"Laws, The" (Kingston), 1380
Lawson, Henry, 1458-1462, 2889; "Drover's Wife, The," 1460; "Song of the Republic, A," 2889;
"Union Buries Its Dead, The," 1460; "'Water Them Geraniums,'" 1461
Laxdœla Saga, 2674
Lay, 3062
Laye, Camara; "Eyes of the Statue, The," 2850
Leacock, Stephen, 2901
"Leaning Tower, The" (Porter), 1954
"Leap, The" (Barthelme, Donald), 187
"Learning to Swim" (Swift), 2272
Learning to Swim and Other Stories (Swift), 2841
"Leather Jacket, The" (Pavese), 1895
"Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian" (Sui Sin Far), 2874
Leaving Home (Keillor), 1353
"Leaving Home" (Miller), 1680
"Leaving One, The" (Offutt), 1824
Leavitt, David, 1463-1469, 2834; Arkansas, 1467; "Ayor," 1465;
"Dedicated," 1464, 2835; "Houses," 1466; "I See London, I See France," 1465;
"Lost Cottage, The," 1466; "My Marriage to Vengeance," 1466; "Place I've Never Been, A," 1465;
Place I've Never Been, A, 2834; "Saturn Street," 1468; "Spouse Night," 1467;
"Term Paper Artist, The," 1467; "Territory," 1465, 2834; "When You Grow to Adultery," 1465;
"Wooden Anniversary, The," 1468
"Lechery" (Phillips), 2834
"Ledge, The" (Hall), 1102
"Ledi Makbet Mtsenskogo uezda." See "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District"
Lee, Manfred Bennington. See Queen, Ellery
Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan, 1469-1475, 2645, 2915; "Carmilla," 1472; "Child That Went
with the Fairies, The," 2645; "Green Tea," 2645, 2915; In a Glass Darkly, 1472;
"Madame Crowl's Ghost," 2645; "Schalken the Painter," 1471
Left Bank and Other Stories, The (Rhys), 2031
"Legacy, The" (Spencer), 2206
"Legacy of the Motes, The" (Godwin), 1015
Legend, 3062
Legend of Good Women (Chaucer), 522
"Legend of Miss Sasagawara, The" (Yamamoto), 2879
"Legend of St. Julian, Hospitaler, The" (Flaubert), 876, 2792
"Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The" (Irving), 1271
"Legend of the Man with the Golden Brain, The" (Daudet), 679
"Legend of Tularecito, The" (Steinbeck), 2236
"Légende de l'homme à la cervelle d'or, La." See "Legend of the Man with the
Golden Brain, The"
"Légende de Saint Julien l'Hospitalier, La." See "Legend of St. Julian, Hospitaler, The"
Legends of Vancouver (Johnson, E. Pauline), 2962
Le Guin, Ursula K., 1476, 1481, 2641; "Darkness Box," 1478; Fisherman of the Inland
Sea, A
, 1479; "Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, The," 1479
Leiber, Fritz, 2640, 2651
Leiden des jungen Werthers, Die. See Sorrows of Young Werther, The
Leitmotif, 3062
Lem, Stanisław, 1481-1488, 2640; "Albatross, The," 1486; Cyberiad, The, 1486;
"Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy: IV," 1485; Memoirs of a Space Traveler, 1484;
Mortal Engines, 1486; "Patrol, The," 1485; Perfect Vacuum, A, 1483;
Tales of Pirx the Pilot, 1485; "Test, The," 1485
Leopold's Way (Hoch), 1213
Lepofsky, Manfred. See Queen, Ellery
Leprohon, Rosanna; "Alice Sydenham's First Ball," 2899
Leskov, Nikolai, 1488-1494; "Amazon, The," 1491; "At the Edge of the World," 1491;
"Iron Will," 1492; "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District," 1491; "March Hare, The," 1493;
"Musk-Ox, The," 1490; "Night Owls," 1493; "Robbery, A," 1493; "Sealed Angel, The," 1491;
"Sentry, The," 1492; "Stinger, The," 1490; "Toupee Artist, The," 1492;
"Winter's Day, A," 1493
Lessing, Doris, 1494-1501; "Casualty," 1499; "How I Finally Lost My Heart," 1497;
"Man and Two Women, A," 1498; "New Café, The," 1498; "Sparrows," 1499;
"Storms," 1499; "Two Old Women and a Young One," 1499
Lessing, Gotthold, 2629
"Lesson, The" (Bambara), 155
"Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead" (Kundera), 1416
"Let Us Quickly Hasten to the Gate of Ivory" (Disch), 746
"Letter, A" (Babel), 131
"Letter from China, A" (Franklin), 906
"Letter from Home, The" (Kincaid), 1365
"Letter to a Commissioner of Novellas " (Walser), 2442
"Letter to a Learned Neighbor, A" (Chekhov), 542
"Letter to a Young Lady in Paris" (Cortázar), 646
Letters de mon moulin. See Letters from My Mill
Letters from My Mill (Daudet), 678
"Letters from the Samantha" (Helprin), 1168
"Letters from Tula" (Pasternak), 1889
"Letting Go" (Grau), 1068
Leucippe and Clitophon (Tatius), 2666
Levine, Norman, 2903
Lew Archer, Private Investigator (Macdonald), 2621
Lewis, C. S., 2611
Lewis, Wyndham, 1501-1509; "Bishop's Fool, The," 1505; "Breton Innkeeper, A," 1504;
"Cantleman's Spring-Mate," 1504, 1506; "Children of the Great," 1506; "Code of a Herdsman, The," 1506;
"Doppelganger," 1506; "French Poodle, The," 1505; "Junior," 1506; "King of the Trenches, The," 1507;
"Man Who Was Unlucky with Women, The," 1505; "Room Without a Telephone, The," 1504;
"Rot, The," 1505; Rotting Hill, 1505; "Time the Tiger," 1505; "Unlucky for Pringle," 1504;
"War Baby, The," 1504, 1506; Wild Body, The, 1503
"Leyenda del sombrerón" (Asturias), 104
Leyendas de Guatemala (Asturias), 104
L'Heureux, John, 1509-1513; "Comedian, The," 1512; "Departures," 1511; "Fox and Swan," 1511;
"Priest's Wife, The," 1511
"Liar!" (Asimov), 97
"Library of Babel, The" (Borges), 2823
Licht (Meckel), 1662
"Life" (Head), 1154
"Life Among the Oilfields" (Yamamoto), 2879
"Life Guard, The" (Wain), 2426
Life in the Studio, The (Hale), 1099
"Life of Engineer Kipreev, The" (Shalamov), 2128
Life of St. Alexis, 2688
"Life of the Body, The" (Wolff), 2553
"Life on the Moon" (Smith), 2185
"Life You Save May Be Your Own, The" (O'Connor, Flannery), 1797
"Life, Death" (Sansom), 2088
"Lifeguard, The" (Beattie), 212
"Lifted Veil, The" (Eliot), 818
"Light Can Be Both Wave and Particle" (Gilchrist), 995
Light Can Be Both Wave and Particle (Gilchrist), 995
"Light Gray Spring Coat, The" (Hildesheimer), 1202
"Like a Lover" (Wescott), 2492
"Like a Winding Sheet" (Petry), 1919
"Like Argus of Ancient Times" (London), 1525
Like One of the Family (Childress), 2869
"Like the Night" (Carpentier), 461
"Lily's Party" (Purdy), 1995
Lim, Shirley Geok-Lin; Two Dreams, 2877
Limitação da rosa, A (Lispector), 1520
"Limpopo" (Tolstaya), 2324
Lind, Jakov, 1513-1516; "Hurrah for Freedom," 1514; "Journey Through the Night," 1515;
"Soul of Wood," 1514; "Stove, The," 1515; Stove, The, 1515
Linderman, Frank, 2962; "Woman's Fight, A," 2962
Ling Mengchu, 2909
Lingo (Gilliatt), 1001
"Linnaeus Forgets" (Chappell), 517
"Lions, Harts, Leaping Does" (Powers), 1960
Lispector, Clarice, 1517-1522; Alguns Contos, 1518; Bela e a fera, A, 1520;
"Corpo, O," 1520; "Crime of the Mathematics Professor, The," 1519; Family Ties, 1519;
Felicidade clandestina, 1519; Foreign Legion, The, 1519; "Happy Birthday," 1519;
"Journey to Petrópolis," 1519; Limitação da rosa, A, 1520; "Love," 1518;
"Miss Ruth Algrave," 1520; "Preciousness," 1519; "Procura de uma dignidade, A," 1520;
Via crucis do corpo, A, 1520
"Litany for the Homeland" (Hospital), 1229
Literary short story, 3062
"Little Black Box, The" (Dick), 723
"Little Brown Girl, The" (Spencer), 2204
Little Disturbances of Man, The (Paley), 1873
"Little Dog" (Hughes), 1239
"Little Farmer, The" (Grimm), 1089
"Little Frogs in a Ditch" (Gautreaux), 989
"Little Herr Friedemann" (Mann), 1609
"Little House, The" (Jackson), 1275
Little Jinx (Sinyavsky), 2169
"Little Kingdom of Franklin J. Payne, The" (Millhauser), 1684
"Little Knife, The" (Chabon), 503
"Little Man in Black, The" (Irving), 1269, 2738
"Little Mexican" (Huxley), 1259
"Little Miracles, Kept Promises" (Cisneros), 2950
"Little Momento" (Collier), 607-608
Little Novels of Sicily (Verga), 2396
Little Tales of Misogyny (Highsmith), 1195
"Littoral Zone, The" (Barrett), 174
"Liubish'--ne liubish'." See "Loves Me, Loves Me Not"
"Liubka Kazak." See "Lyubka the Cossack"
Live and Remember (Rasputin), 2025
Live Bait and Other Stories (Tuohy), 2349
"Live Bottomless" (Smith), 2185
"Live Life Deeply" (West), 2498
"Lives of the Invertebrates" (Slavin), 2173
"Living Alone in Iota" (Abbott), 2, 2835
"Living on the Box" (Gilliatt), 999
"Livvie" (Welty), 2485
"Lizabeth: The Caterpillar Story" (Wideman), 2512
"Loaf of Bread, A" (McPherson), 1584, 2867
Local color, 2786, 2788, 3062. See also "Category Index"
"Locket, The" (Pardo Bazán), 1881
"Locura del doctor Montarco, La." See "Madness of Doctor Montarco, The"
"Lodger, The" (Chappell), 516
"Lodging for the Night, A" (Stevenson), 2246, 2798
Logocentrism, 3063
Lohafer, Susan; Coming to Terms with the Short Story, 2608; Short Story Theory at a Crossroads, 2608
"Lola" (Colette), 601
London, Jack, 1522-1526; "Law of Life," 1524; "Like Argus of Ancient Times," 1525;
"To Build a Fire," 1524
Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, The (Alexie), 56
"Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner, The" (Sillitoe), 2144
Lonely Voice, The (O'Connor, Frank), 1807, 2753, 2914
Long After Midnight (Bradbury), 338
"Long Day in November, A" (Gaines), 932
"Long Distance" (Smiley), 2177
"Long-Distance Runner, The" (Paley), 1876
"Long Road to Ummera, The" (O'Connor, Frank), 1805
Long Valley, The (Steinbeck), 2236
"Longing" (Oz), 1862
Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin, 1527-1531, 2743; "Gander-Pulling, The," 1528;
"Georgia Theatrics," 1528; "Shooting-Match, The," 1529
Longus; Daphnis and Chloë, 2666
"Looking for Mr. Green" (Bellow), 234
Loom and Other Stories, The (Sasaki), 2880
"Loon Point" (O'Brien, Tim), 1793
"Loose Reins" (Tilghman), 2318, 2839
"Loose Talk" (Broyard), 365
Lopes, Baltasar; Antologia da ficcao Cabo-Verdiana contemmporanea, 2847
Lord Love Us (Sansom), 2088
"Lord of the Dynamos, The" (Wells), 2478
Lordan, Beth, 1531-1534; "And Both Shall Row," 1533; "Cow Story, The," 1532;
"Widow, The," 1532
"Lorry Driver, The" (Moravia), 1706
Lost and Found Stories of Morley Callaghan, The (Callaghan), 421
"Lost Battle, The" (Mansfield), 1620
"Lost Childhood, The" (Greene, Graham), 1075
"Lost Cottage, The" (Leavitt), 1466
"Lost Hearts" (James, M. R.), 1293
"Lost in the Funhouse" (Barth), 178
Lost in the Funhouse (Barth), 176
"Lost Phoebe, The" (Dreiser), 787
"Lost Princess, The" (Nahman), 1746
"Lottery, The" (Edgeworth), 812
"Lottery, The" (Jackson), 1277
"Lotus, The" (Rhys), 2032
"Lough Derg Pilgrim, The" (Carleton), 457
Louie, David Wong, 2875; "Birthday," 2876; "Displacement," 2876; "Pangs of Love," 2875;
Pangs of Love, 2875
"Louisa, Please" (Jackson), 1275
"Love" (Colette), 600
"Love" (Lispector), 1518
Love and Friendship (Austen), 125
"Love and Like" (Gold), 1032
Love in a Small Town (Wang), 2446
Love Life (Mason), 1642
"Love Match, A" (Warner), 2451
Love Medicine (Erdrich), 2965
Love Must Not Be Forgotten (Zhang), 2580
"Love-o'-Women" (Kipling), 1390
Love of a Good Woman, The (Munro), 1735
Love on a Barren Mountain (Wang), 2446
"Love, Your Only Mother" (Kaplan), 1336
Lovecraft, H. P., 1535-1541, 2650; "Call of Cthulhu, The," 1537; "Dunwich Horror, The,"
1538; "Nameless City, The," 1536; "Outsider, The," 1536
"Lovely Beasts, The" (O'Flaherty), 1829
"Lovers, The" (Head), 1154
Lovers and Cohorts (Gold), 1031
"Lovers of Their Time" (Trevor), 2343
"Love's Lesson" (O'Brien, Edna), 1784
"Loves Me, Loves Me Not" (Tolstaya), 2322
"Low-Lands" (Pynchon), 2006
Lu Hsün. See Lu Xun
Lu Xun, 1541-1550, 2909; "Diary of a Madman, The," 1545; "Divorce," 1548; "Kong yiji,"
1545; "Medicine," 1546; "New Year's Sacrifice, The," 1547; True Story of Ah Q, The, 1546;
"Upstairs in a Wineshop," 1548; Wandering, 1547
"Lucretia Burns" (Garland), 965
"Lucy in Her Pink Jacket" (Coppard), 643
Ludwig, Otto, 2793
Lukács, Georg; Theory of the Novel, The, 2753
"Lullaby" (Robison), 2137
"Lulu" (Williams, Joy), 2522
"Luminous Thighs: Mythic Tropisms" (Vizenor), 2408
"Lunching at the Ritzmore" (Himes), 1207
"Lupa, La." See "She-Wolf, The"
Lusophone African short fiction, 2846
"Lust" (Minot), 1688
Lust and Other Stories (Minot), 1688
"Lust of the White Serpent, The" (Ueda), 2931
"Luvina" (Rulfo), 2066
Lyly, John, 2714; Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit, 2714
Lyrical, 3063. See also "Category Index"
"Lyubka the Cossack" (Babel), 130
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M
"M. Pigeonneau" (France), 900
"M. Seguin's Goat" (Daudet), 678
McCarthy, Mary, 1551-1555; "Cruel and Barbarous Treatment," 1552; "Man in the Brooks
Brothers Shirt, The," 1553
McCullers, Carson, 1556-1562; "Ballad of the Sad Café, The," 1560; "Domestic Dilemma,
A," 1558; "Jockey, The," 1557; "Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland," 1557;
"Tree. A Rock. A Cloud, A," 1558, 2809; "Wunderkind," 1557
Macdonald, Ross, 2621; Blue City, 2621; Lew Archer, Private Investigator, 2621
McEwan, Ian, 1562-1566, 2841; "Dead as They Come," 1565; First Love, Last Rites,
1564, 2841; "In Between the Sheets," 1564; "Psychopolis," 1565
"McEwen of the Shining Slave Makers" (Dreiser), 785
McGahern, John, 1566-1569, 2924; "All Sorts of Impossible Things," 1568;
"Beginning of an Idea, The," 1568, 2924; "Country Funeral, The," 1567;
"Korea," 1567; Nightlines, 2924; "Peaches," 1567
Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria, 1569-1574; "Singular Event, A," 1570
Machen, Arthur, 1574-1577, 2646; "Bowmen, The," 1576; Great God Pan, The,
1575; "N," 1576; Three Impostors, The, 1575; "White People, The," 1576
"Machine Stops, The" (Forster), 887
Machineries of Joy, The (Bradbury), 337
McKay, Claude, 2945
McKnight, Reginald, 1577-1580; "Kind of Light That Shines on Texas, The," 1579;
"Quitting Smoking," 1579; "Uncle Moustapha's Eclipse," 1578; "White Boys, The," 1580
McLaverty, Bernard; "Secrets," 2926
McLaverty, Michael; "Poteen Maker, The," 2925
MacLeod, Alistair, 2904
MacMahon, Bryan; "Ring, The," 2926
MacNickle, D'Arcy; Surrounded, The, 2964
McPherson, James Alan, 1581-1585, 2867; "Elbow Room," 2867; "Gold Coast," 1582, 2867;
"Hue and Cry," 1583; Hue and Cry, 2867; "Loaf of Bread, A," 1584, 2867;
"On Trains," 2867; "Solo Song: For Doc, A," 1583; "Why I Like Country Music," 1583
McWhorter, Lucullus, 2964; "Coyote Juggles His Eyes," 2964
"Madame Celestin's Divorce" (Chopin), 2787
"Madame Crowl's Ghost" (Le Fanu), 2645
Madam Crowl's Ghost and Other Tales of Mystery (James, M. R.), 1292
"Madame de la Carlière" (Diderot), 734
"Madame Tellier's Establishment" (Maupassant), 1656
"Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland" (McCullers), 1557
"Mademoiselle de Scudéry" (Hoffmann), 1219
"Mademoiselle Panache" (Edgeworth), 811
"Madness of Doctor Montarco, The" (Unamuno y Jugo), 2372
"Madwoman, The" (Maupassant), 1654
"Maggie Meriwether's Rich Experience" (Stafford), 2210
"Magic Barrel, The" (Malamud), 1598, 2812
"Magic Egg, The" (Stockton), 2251
Magic Mirror (Card), 449
"Magic of a Voice, The" (Howells), 1235
"Magic Striptease, The" (Garrett), 971
Magical Realism, 2937, 2943. See also "Category Index"
"Magician and the Girl, The" (Tadjo), 2851
Magona, Sindiwe; "I'm Not Talking About That Now," 2855
Mahabharata, 2664
Mahfouz, Naguib, 1586-1591; "Answer Is No, The," 1589; "Beneath the Shelter," 1588;
"False Dawn," 1589; "God's World," 1587; Hams al-junnn, 1587; "Min taht ila Fawq," 1589;
"Sa'iq al-qitar," 1588; Tawta al-mi,alla, 1589; "Zaabalawi," 1588
"Maiden in a Tower" (Stegner), 2222
"Maiden's Leap" (Kiely), 1359
"Mail Lady, The" (Gates), 982
Major, Clarence, 1591-1594; "Area in the Cerebral Hemisphere, An," 1593; Fun and
Games
, 1592; "My Mother and Mitch," 1592; "Scat," 1593; "Ten Pecan Pies," 1593
"Makar Chudra" (Gorky), 1057
"Maker of Coffins, The" (Bates), 201
"Maker of One Coffin, The" (Chappell), 515
"Making a Change" (Gilman), 1005
"Making of a New Zealander, The" (Sargeson), 2894
Malamud, Bernard, 1595-1602, 2811, 2827; "Angel Levine," 1598; "Black Is My Favorite
Color," 1599; "First Seven Years, The," 1597; "German Refugee, The," 1600;
"God's Wrath," 1601; "Idiots First," 1599; "Jewbird, The," 1600; "Last Mohican, The,"
1598, 2827; "Magic Barrel, The," 1598, 2812; "Notes from a Lady at a Dinner Party," 1601;
"Rembrandt's Hat," 1600
Malaprop, 3063
Malapropism, 3063
Malgudi Days (Narayan), 1752
Malory, Sir Thomas, 1603-1606; "Death of King Arthur, The," 1605; Morte d'Arthur,
Le
, 2695; "Quest of the Holy Grail, The," 1604; "Tale of Balin, The," 1604;
"Tale of King Arthur, The," 1603
Malzberg, Barry N., 2640
"Mama, Rimma, and Alla" (Babel), 133
"Mamay" (Zamyatin), 2576
"Man and the Character, The" (Moravia), 1707
"Man and the Snake, The" (Bierce), 2788
"Man and Two Women, A" (Lessing), 1498
"Man and Wife" (Purdy), 1996
"Man by the Name of Ziegler, A" (Hesse), 1188
"Man Child, The" (Baldwin), 136
Man Descending (Vanderhaeghe), 2391
"Man from Mars, The" (Atwood), 109
"Man from the South" (Dahl), 666
"Man in the Black Suit, The" (King), 1372
"Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt, The" (McCarthy), 1553
"Man Is Born, A" (Gorky), 1057
Man Must Live, and Other Stories (Mphahlele), 1718
"Man of Letters" (Dixon), 750, 2837
"Man Outside, The" (Grau), 1067
"Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, The" (Twain), 2362
"Man Who Became a Soprano, The" (Updike), 2383
"Man Who Became a Woman, The" (Anderson), 80
"Man Who Could Work Miracles, The" (Wells), 2478
"Man Who Did Not Smile, The" (Kawabata), 1347
Man Who Died, The (Lawrence), 1455
Man Who Gave Up His Name, The (Harrison), 1129
"Man Who Had No Idea, The" (Disch), 747
"Man Who Invented Sin, The" (O'Faoláin), 2920
"Man Who Lived Underground, The" (Wright, Richard), 2562
"Man Who Lost the Sea, The" (Sturgeon), 2267
"Man Who Saw Through Heaven, The" (Steele, Wilbur Daniel), 2219
"Man Who Was Unlucky with Women, The" (Lewis), 1505
"Man Who Would Be King, The" (Kipling), 2799
"Man Whom the Trees Loved, The" (Blackwood), 264
"Man Without a Country, The" (Hale), 2777
"Man Without a Temperament, The" (Mansfield), 1621
"Man, Woman and Boy" (Dixon), 751
"Mangler, The" (King), 1370
"Manhole Sixty-nine" (Ballard), 143
Mann, Thomas, 1607-1616, 2793, 2816; Black Swan, The, 1612; Death in Venice, 1611;
"Disorder and Early Sorrow," 2816; "Infant Prodigy, The," 1611; "Little Herr Friedemann," 1609;
Mario and the Magician, 1612, 2816; "Railway Accident," 2816; Tonio Kröger, 1610;
Transposed Heads, The, 1612
Mansfield, Katherine, 1617-1624, 2605, 2800, 2893; "At the Bay," 1622; "Bliss," 1619;
"Daughters of the Late Colonel, The," 1620; "Doll's House, The," 1622; "Epilogue II," 1619;
"Fly, The," 1621; "Garden Party, The," 1623; "In a Café," 1619; "Je Ne Parle Pas Français," 1619;
"Lost Battle, The," 1620; "Man Without a Temperament, The," 1621; "Marriage à la Mode," 1620;
"Miss Brill," 1620; "Ole Underwood," 1621; "Prelude," 1622; "Psychology," 1619;
"Woman at the Store, The," 1621; "Young Girl, The," 1620
"Manuscript, The" (Singer), 2162
Mao Tun, 2910
Maori, 2895
Maoriland Stories (Grace), 2895
"March Hare, The" (Leskov), 1493
Märchen, 3063
"Märchen, Das." See "Fairy Tale, The"
Märchen. See "Category Index": Märchen
Mare, Walter de la. See De la Mare, Walter
Marginalization, 3063
Marguerite de Navarre, 2705; Heptameron, The, 2705
"María Concepción" (Porter), 1951
"Marie" (Woiwode), 2541
Marie de France, 1625-1630, 2628, 2697; "Bisclayret," 1627; "Eliduc," 1628; Espurgatoire
Saint Patriz
, 1628; "Honeysuckle, The," 1627; Lais, 1625; "Lanval," 1626;
"Laüstic," 1627; Medieval Fables, 1628
Mario and the Magician (Mann), 1612, 2816
"Marionette Theater, The" (Kleist), 1402
"Marjorie Daw" (Aldrich), 47, 2781
"Mark of Apelles, The" (Pasternak), 1888
"Mark of Satan" (Oates), 1778
"Markheim" (Stevenson), 2247
"Marleen American Horse" (Vizenor), 2407
Marler, Robert, 2775
"Marmalade Bird, The" (Sansom), 2089
Marmalade Bird, The (Sansom), 2089
Maro, Publius Vergilius. See Vergil
"Marriage à la Mode" (Mansfield), 1620
Mars-Jones, Adam, 1630-1633; "Bears in Mourning," 1632; "Executor, An," 1632;
"Remission," 1632; "Slim," 1631; "Small Spade, A," 1632; "Summer Lightning," 1632
Marshall, Alan, 2890
Marshall, Paule, 1634-1638; "Barbados," 1635; "Brazil," 1636; "British Guiana," 1636;
"Brooklyn," 1636; Merle, 1637; "Reena," 1637; Reena and Other Stories, 1636;
Soul Clap Hands and Sing, 1635; "To Da-duh, in Memoriam," 1637; "Valley Between, The," 1636
"Martha's Lady" (Jewett), 1300
Martian Chronicles, The (Bradbury), 335, 2637
"Martian Way, The" (Asimov), 98
"Mary Postgate" (Kipling), 1394
Mason, Bobbie Ann, 1639-1644; "Big Bertha Stories," 1643, 2833; "Coyotes," 1642;
"Detroit Skyline, 1949," 1641; Love Life, 1642; Midnight Magic, 1643;
"Nancy Culpepper," 1643; "Offerings," 1641; "Private Lies," 1643; "Residents and Transients," 1641;
"Shiloh," 1640, 2833; Shiloh and Other Stories, 1640; "State Champions," 1642
"Masque of the Red Death, The" (Poe), 2766
"Master and Man" (Tolstoy), 2332
"Master Misery" (Capote), 443
"Master of Prayers, The" (Nahman), 1747
"Master Richard" (Wain), 2425
Masumoto, David, 2880; Silent Spring, 2880
"Matchimanito" (Erdrich), 849
"Matchmaker, The" (Steele, Richard), 2727
"Mateo Falcone" (Mérimée), 1672, 2750
"Matinée" (Colette), 601
"Matryona's House" (Solzhenitsyn), 2190
"Matter of Chance, A" (Nabokov), 1741
"Matter of Principle, A" (Chesnutt), 2859
"Matter of Taste, A" (Collier), 607
Matthews, Brander, 2599, 2758, 2790
Maugham, W. Somerset, 1645-1651, 2604; "Human Element, The," 1649; "Rain," 1648;
"Red," 1647; Six Stories Written in the First Person Singular, 1649; Trembling of a Leaf, The, 1646
Maupassant, Guy de, 1652-1659, 2792; "Boule de Suif," 1655; "Horla, The," 1657, 2793;
"Madame Tellier's Establishment," 1656; "Madwoman, The," 1654; "Necklace, The," 2793
May, Charles E.; New Short Story Theories, The, 2610; Short Story Theories, 2607
"May Night, A" (Gogol), 1025
"May-Pole of Merrymount, The" (Hawthorne), 1147
"May Queen" (Robison), 2055
"Mayskaya Noch." See "May Night, A"
"Me and Miss Mandible" (Barthelme, Donald), 184
"Me and My Baby View the Eclipse" (Smith), 2185
Me and My Baby View the Eclipse (Smith), 2184
"Measure of Devotion, The" (Perabo), 1899
Meckel, Christoph, 1659-1664; "Crow, The," 1662; Figure on the Boundary Line,
The
, 1662; Im Land der Umbramauten, 1661; Licht, 1662; Noticen des
Feuerwerkers Christopher Magalan, Die
, 1662; Plunder, 1663; Suchbild, 1663;
Tullipan, 1662; Wahre Muftoni, Der, 1663
"Medea" (Ovid), 1855
"Medicine" (Lu), 1546
Medicine for Melancholy, A (Bradbury), 337
Medieval fables, 2626, 2628
Medieval Fables (Marie de France), 1628
Medieval romance, 2691-2699, 3063
Medieval short fiction, 2669, 2672; early, 2680-2690
"Medley" (Bambara), 155
"Medusa's Ankles" (Byatt), 388, 2840
"Meeting, The" (Chekhov), 544
"Meeting in the Dark, A" (Ngugi), 2853
"Meeting with Medusa, A" (Clarke), 593
"Mein teures bein." See "My Expensive Leg"
Melting Pot and Other Subversive Stories, The (Schwartz, Lynn Sharon), 2119
Melville, Herman, 1664-1670; "Bartleby the Scrivener," 1666, 2629, 2775;
"Fiddler, The," 1669
"Melyuzga" (Chekhov), 543
Memnon (Voltaire), 2413
Memoir, 3063
Memoirs of a Space Traveler (Lem), 1484
"Memories of the Space Age" (Ballard), 144
"Memories Sent to an Old Friend" (Akutagawa), 40
Men of Maize (Asturias), 104
"Menace from Earth, The" (Heinlein), 1162
Menachem-Mendl letters (Aleichem), 53
Menaphon (Greene, Robert), 1082
"Menu/1965, The" (Brautigan), 346
"Merchant's Tale, The" (Chaucer), 529
Mérimée, Prosper, 1671-1675, 2750; "Abbé Aubain, The," 2769; Carmen, 1673;
Colomba, 1672; "Mateo Falcone," 1672, 2750; Venus of Ille, The, 1673
Merle (Marshall), 1637
Mermaids on the Golf Course and Other Stories (Highsmith), 1198
Merril, Judith, 2638
Mesopotamian culture, 2659
"Mesoroposthonippidon" (Davenport), 687
"Message from the Pig-Man, A" (Wain), 2425
Metafiction, 3063. See also "Category Index"
Metamorphoses (Apuleius), 2664
Metamorphoses (Ovid), 1853, 2643, 2660
Metamorphosis, The (Kafka), 2794
Metaphor, 3063
Metcalfe, John, 2650; "Double Admiral, The," 2650
"Metel." See "Blizzard, The"
Metonymy, 3063
"Mexican Dust" (Adams), 10
Mexican Village (Niggli), 2952
"Mexico" (Doerr), 754
"Mexico" (Gilchrist), 995
"Miaomiao" (Wang), 2447
Michael Kohlhaas (Kleist), 1403
Michaels, Leonard, 1675-1678; "City Boy," 1677; "Deal, The," 1676; "Murderers," 1676
"Microcosmic God" (Sturgeon), 2265
"Midair" (Conroy), 629
"Middle Classes, The" (Schwartz, Lynne Sharon), 2118
"Middle Drawer, The" (Calisher), 412
Middleman and Other Stories, The (Mukherjee), 1725
Middleton, Richard, 2648
Middleton-Murry, John, 2639
"Middling Type, A" (Moravia), 1707
"Midnight Blue" (Collier), 609
Midnight Magic (Mason), 1643
"Midnight Reader, The" (Gardner), 958
"Miel silvestre, La" (Quiroga), 2020
"Migala, La." See "Bird Spider, The"
"Migraine Workers, The" (Paley), 1922
"Milczenie." See "Silence"
Miller, Sue, 1679-1682; "Inventing the Abbotts," 1681; "Leaving Home," 1680;
"Tyler and Brina," 1680
"Miller's Tale, The" (Chaucer), 525-526
Millhauser, Steven, 1682-1685, 2837; "August Eschenburg," 1683; "Catalogue of the
Exhibition: The Art of Edmund Moorash," 1684; "Game of Clue, A," 1684; "Knife Thrower, The," 1685;
Knife Thrower and Other Stories, The, 1684; "Little Kingdom of Franklin J. Payne, The," 1684;
"New Automaton Theater, The," 1685; "Paradise Park," 1685
"Min taht ila Fawq" (Mahfouz), 1589
"Minerva Writes Poems" (Cisneros), 581
"Mines of Falun, The" (Hoffmann), 1219
"Mingo" (Harris, Joel Chandler), 1124
Mingo and Other Sketches in Black and White (Harris, Joel Chandler), 1124
Minimalism, 2830-2831, 2833, 3063. See also "Category Index"
"Minister's Black Veil, The" (Hawthorne), 1146, 2763
Minot, Susan, 1686-1689; "Accident," 1688; "Feather in the Toque, The," 1688;
"Hiding," 1687; "Knot, The," 1688; "Lust," 1688; Lust and Other Stories, 1688;
Monkeys, 1687; "Navigator, The," 1688; "Party Blues," 1688;
"Thorofare," 1688; "Thrilling Life, A," 1689
"Miracle, The" (Mutia), 2849
Mirrielees, Edith R., 2605
Mirror in the Roadway, The (O'Connor, Frank), 1807
"Misanthrope, The" (Moravia), 1707
"Miscellany of Characters That Will Not Appear in My Next Novel, A" (Cheever), 533
Mise en abîme, 3064
"Miserere" (Stone), 2255
"Misery" (Chekhov), 2795
"Misfit, The" (Colette), 601
Mishima, Yukio, 1690-1695, 2821, 2933; Death in Midsummer and Other Stories,
1691; "Forest in Full Bloom, The," 1691; "Patriotism," 1693, 2822, 2933;
"Priest of Shiga Temple and His Love, The," 1692
Mishle shu'alim. See Fables of a Jewish Aesop
"Miss August" (Hale), 1097
"Miss Brill" (Mansfield), 1620
"Miss Crystal Confronts the Past" (Gilchrist), 995
"Miss Cudahy of Stowe's Landing" (Elliott), 829
"Miss Holland" (Lavin), 1444
"Miss Leonora When Last Seen" (Taylor, Peter), 2297
"Miss Loewe." See "Confessions of Fitz-Boodle"
Miss Marple stories, 576
"Miss Muriel" (Petry), 1920
Miss Muriel and Other Stories (Petry), 1919
"Miss Parker Possessed" (Betts), 253
"Miss Ruth Algrave" (Lispector), 1520
"Miss Shum's Husband" (Thackeray), 2301
"Miss Vandyke" (Gwynne), 2900
"Miss Yellow-Eyes" (Grau), 1065
"Mississippi" (Gilchrist), 996
Mo Yan, 2912
Mochulsky, Konstantin, 2773
"Model World, A" (Chabon), 501
Modern Griselda, The (Edgeworth), 813
Modern short story, 1998, 2121, 2397, 2599, 2612, 2941, 3064; definition, 2738-2739;
England and, 2744, 2798; France and, 2749; Germany and, 2747, 2794; Ireland and, 2800;
Latino, 2938; 1960, 2826; Russia and, 2748, 2794-2795; United States and, 2790, 2792.
See also "Category Index"
Modernism, 2782, 2796, 2802, 2826, 2902. See also "Category Index"
Modernist Short Story, The (Head), 2610
"Moglie conle ali, La." See "Count's Wife, The"
"Mohican, The" (Nin), 1761
Mohr, Nicholasa, 2958; "Aunt Rosana's Rocker," 2958; El Bronx Remembered, 2958
"Moi pervyi gus'." See "My First Goose"
"Mold of Yancy, The" (Dick), 722
"Mole, The" (Kawabata), 1347
"Molly's Dog" (Adams), 11
Momaday, N. Scott, 2960; House Made of Dawn, 2960, 2962
"Moments of Light" (Chappell), 516
"Mfmoku monogatari." See "Blind Man's Tale, A"
"Monday or Tuesday" (Woolf), 2556
Monday Tales (Daudet), 679
Money and Other Stories (Čapek), 439
Money for Maria (Rasputin), 2025
"Monkey, The" (Dinesen), 738
"Monkey, The" (King), 1370
Monkeys (Minot), 1687
"Monkey's Paw, The" (Jacobs), 1281
Monologue, 3064
"Monsieur Maurice" (Colette), 601
Montague, John; "Occasion for Sin, An," 2926
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de; Essays, The, 2737
Montesquieu, 2730
Montreal Story Tellers, 2904
"Moon Came Out, The" (Tolstaya), 2324
"Moon Lake" (Welty), 2486
"Moon on the Water, The" (Kawabata), 1347
"Moon Over Minneapolis" (Weldon), 2474
Moon Over Minneapolis (Weldon), 2473
"Moonshine War, The" (Sturgeon), 2261
Moorcock, Michael, 2639
Moore, George, 1695-1699, 2916; "Clerk's Quest, The," 2801; "Home Sickness," 2917;
"Julia Cahill's Curse," 2800, 2916; "Sarah Gwynn," 1697; "So on He Fares," 1697, 2916;
Story-Teller's Holiday, A, 1698; Untilled Field, The, 2800, 2916;
"Wilfrid Holmes," 1696
Moore, Lorrie, 1699-1702; "People Like That Are the Only People Here," 1701;
"Real Estate," 1700; "Terrific Mother," 1701; "You're Ugly Too," 1701
Moral tract, 3064. See also "Category Index"
Morall Fabillis of Esope, the Phrygian, The (Henryson), 2628
Moravia, Alberto, 1702-1710, 2603, 2821; Agostino, 2821; "Celestina," 1706;
Command and I Will Obey You, 1707; "Crime at the Tennis Club," 1705; "Doubles," 1707;
Epidemia, L, 1706; Erotic Tales, 1708; Fetish, The, 1707;
"Inverno di malato," 1705; "Lorry Driver, The," 1706; "Man and the Character, The," 1707;
"Middling Type, A," 1707; "Misanthrope, The," 1707; Paradise and Other Stories, 1707;
"Primo rapporto sulla terra dell' Inviato speciale della luna," 1706; "Products," 1708
More, Hannah, 2728
More Shapes than One (Chappell), 516
Mori, Toshio, 2877; "Seventh Street Philosopher," 2878; "She Makes Swell Doughnuts,"
2878; Yokohama, California, 2877
Mori Ōgai, 2931; "Dancing Girl, The," 2932; "Sanshō the Steward," 2932
Morkinskinna, 2671-2672
Morley Callaghan's Stories (Callaghan), 420
"Morning of the Day They Did It, The" (White), 2508
"Morning Talk, The" (du Fresne), 2896
Morning Watch, The (Agee), 19-20
Morris, Wright, 1710-1717; "Glimpse into Another Country," 1713; "Origin of Sadness,
The," 1714; "Ram in the Thicket, The," 1712; "Safe Place, The," 1712; "Uno Más," 1715
Morrison, Arthur, 2615
Morrison, John, 2890
"Mort d'Olivier Bécaille, La." See "Death of Olivier Bécaille, The"
Mortal Engines (Lem), 1486
"Mortality and Mercy in Vienna" (Pynchon), 2006
"Morte amoureuse, La." See "Beautiful Vampire, The"
Morte d'Arthur, Le (Malory), 2695
Mortimer, John, 2622; Rumpole à la Carte, 2623
"Mosby's Memoirs" (Bellow), 236
Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories (Bellow), 234
Moses, 2658
"Moslem Wife, The" (Gallant), 942
"Most Beloved" (Tolstaya), 2323
"Most Girl Part of You, The" (Hempel), 1182
"Mote in the Middle Distance, H*nry J*m*s, The" (Beerbohm), 228
"Moth and the Star, The" (Thurber), 2315
"Mother" (Dovlatov), 771
"Mother Africa" (Paley), 1922
"Mothers" (Plath), 1935
"Moths, The" (Viramontes), 2404, 2956
Motif, 3064
"Mound of the Monkey's Grave, The" (Dazai), 701
"Mountain Tavern, The" (O'Flaherty), 1830
"Mountains of Guatemala, The" (Connell), 618
"Mouth of Brass" (Humphrey), 1246
"Moving from One Body of Water to Another" (Houston), 1233
Mphahlele, Ezekiel, 1717-1720; "Grieg on a Stolen Piano," 1718; "In Corner B," 1719;
Man Must Live, and Other Stories, 1718; "Mrs. Plum," 1719; Renewal Time, 1719
"Mr. and Mrs. Frank Berry" (Thackeray), 2303
"Mr. Big" (Allen), 63
"Mr. Gilfil's Love Story" (Eliot), 817
"Mr. Levi" (Oz), 1862
"Mr. McMillan" (Spencer), 2206
Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective (Christie), 2620
"Mr. Peebles' Heart" (Gilman), 1006
"Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again" (Harris, Joel Chandler), 1123
"Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match at Last" (Harris, Joel Chandler), 1123
"Mr. Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter" (Harris, Joel Chandler), 1123
"Mr. Sweetly Indecent" (Broyard), 364
"Mrs. Bathurst" (Kipling), 1392
"Mrs. Mean" (Gass), 978
"Mrs. Plum" (Mphahlele), 1719
Mrs. Reinhardt and Other Stories (O'Brien, Edna), 1783
Mrs. Spring Fragrance (Sui Sin Far), 2873-2874
"Mrs. Yardley's Quilting" (Harris, George Washington), 2779
"Mud Below, The" (Proulx), 1982
"Muerte y la brújula, La." See "Death and the Compass"
Mukherjee, Bharati, 1721-1730, 2884, 2974; Darkness, 1723; "Father, A," 1725;
"Jasmine," 1726; Middleman and Other Stories, The, 1725; "Nostalgia," 1724;
"Tamurlane," 1724; "Tenant, The," 1727; "World According to Hsü, The," 1724
"Mule du Pape, La." See "Pope's Mule, The"
Mules and Men (Hurston), 2863
"Mummy's Foot, The" (Gautier), 2768
"Mumu" (Turgenev), 2356
Munderic, 2682
Munro, Alice, 1730-1737; "Bardon Bus," 1733; "Cortes Island," 1735; "Dance of the
Happy Shades," 1731; "Jakarta," 1736; "Labor Day Dinner," 1734; Love of a Good Woman, The, 1735;
"Peace of Utrecht, The," 1732; "Tell Me Yes or No," 1734
Munro, Hector Hugh. See Saki
Munson, Gorham Bert, 2604
"Mur, Le." See "Wall, The" (Sartre)
Murakami, Haruki, 2934; "Elephant Vanishes, The," 2934; "TV People," 2934
Murasaki Shikibu; Tale of Genji, The, 2667, 2929
Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The (Christie), 2619
"Murderers" (Michaels), 1676
"Murders in the Rue Morgue, The" (Poe), 2613
Murfree, Mary; "Electioneering on Big Injun Mountain," 2780
"Murke's Collected Silences" (Böll), 274
Museums and Women and Other Stories (Updike), 2379
"Music" (Gilchrist), 994
"Music on the Muscatatuck" (West), 2496
Music School, The (Updike), 2379
"Musk-Ox, The" (Leskov), 1490
"Muta, La." See "Mute, The"
"Mute, The" (Landolfi), 1431
"Mute Companions, The" (Narayan), 1752
Mutia, Ba'bila; "Miracle, The," 2849
"Muttsy" (Hurston), 2862
"My Expensive Leg" (Böll), 275
"My Father and the Sergeant" (Friel), 922
"My Father Is an Educated Man" (Sturgeon), 2262
"My Father Sits in the Dark" (Weidman), 2463
"My Father, Dancing" (Broyard), 364
My Father, Dancing (Broyard), 364
"My First Cousin" (Dovlatov), 772
"My First Goose" (Babel), 132, 2820
"My First Tooth" (Shalamov), 2129
"My Kinsman, Major Molineux" (Hawthorne), 1144-1145, 2741, 2763
"My Last Story" (Frame), 2895
"My Marriage to Vengeance" (Leavitt), 1466
"My Mother" (Kincaid), 1365
"My Mother and Mitch" (Major), 1592
My Name Is Aram (Saroyan), 2093
"My Oedipus Complex" (O'Connor, Frank), 1806
"My Older Brothers" (Dazai), 701
My Soul in China (Kavan), 1343
My Uncle Silas (Bates), 200
Mysterious Mr. Quin, The (Christie), 575, 2620
"Mystery of the Blue Jar, The" (Christie), 574
"Mystery Within Us, The" (Hopkins), 2859
Myth, 3064
Mythic, 2659. See also "Category Index"
"Myths of Bears, The" (Bass), 196
"Myths of the Near Future" (Ballard), 143
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"N" (Machen), 1576
"NRACP, The" (Elliott), 827
"Na kraiu sveta." See "At the Edge of the World"
"Na plotakh." See "On the Rafts"
"Na zolotom kryl'tse sideli." See "On the Golden Porch"
"Nabeg: Razskaz volontera." See "Raid: A Volunteer's Story, The"
Nabokov, Vladimir, 1738-1745, 2821; "Admiralty Spire, The," 1742; "Cloud, Castle,
Lake," 1742; "Doorbell, The," 1740; "Matter of Chance, A," 1741; "Razor, The," 1740;
"Scoundrel, The," 1741; "Signs and Symbols," 1743, 2821; "Spring in Fialta," 1742
Nahman of Bratslav, Rabbi, 1745-1750; "Lost Princess, The," 1746; "Master of Prayers,
The," 1747; "Tale of the Seven Beggars, The," 1748
"Nail, The" (Alarcón), 43
"Nameless City, The" (Lovecraft), 1536
Names and Faces of Heroes, The (Price), 1963
"Nancy Culpepper" (Mason), 1643
Nanshoku fkagami. See Great Mirror of Male Love, The
Narayan, R. K., 1750-1755, 2975; "Dodu," 1753; Dodu and Other Stories, 1752;
"Forty-five a Month," 1753; "Grandmother's Tale, The," 1754; Grandmother's Tale and
Selected Stories, The
, 1754; Horse and Two Goats and Other Stories, A, 1753;
Lawley Road, 1753; Malgudi Days, 1752; "Mute Companions, The," 1752;
"Salt and Sawdust," 1754; Under the Banyan Tree and Other Stories, 1753
Narrative, 3064
Narrative persona, 3064
Narratology, 3064
Narrator, 3064
Nashe, Thomas; Unfortunate Traveller, The, 2716
Naso, Publius Ovidius. See Ovid
Nathan, Daniel. See Queen, Ellery
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 2861
Native American culture, 2960-2971. See also "Category Index"
Native Argosy, A. See In His Own Country
Native Son (Wright), 167
Natronai ha-Nakdan, Rabbi Berechiah ben; Fables of a Jewish Aesop, 2628
Naturaleza muerta con cachimba. See Still Life with Pipe
Naturalism, 2789. See also "Category Index"
"Nature of Almost Everything, The" (Robison), 2055
"Navigator, The" (Minot), 1688
"Navodnenie." See "Flood, The" (Zamyatin)
"Necessary Knocking on the Door, The" (Paley), 1921
"Neck" (Dahl), 667
"Necklace, The" (Maupassant), 2793
"Neighbor Rosicky" (Cather), 488
"Neighbors" (Carver), 475, 2830
"Neighbors" (Viramontes), 2405
"Neighbors" (West), 2498
Nennius; Historia Brittonum, 2693
Nerval, Gérard de, 1756-1759; "Angélique," 1757; "Confidences de Nicolas, Les," 1757;
"Pandora," 2768; "Sylvie," 1757; "Tale of the Queen of the Morning and Soliman the Prince
of the Genii, The," 1758
Neumiller Stories, The (Woiwode), 2539
"Never Marry a Mexican" (Cisneros), 583
"Nevesta." See "Bride, The"
"Nevsky Prospect" (Gogol), 1026
"New Automaton Theater, The" (Millhauser), 1685
"New Café, The" (Lessing), 1498
New Criticism, 2607
"New England Nun, A" (Freeman), 910, 2787
New Gods Lead, The (Wright, S. Fowler), 2639
"New Islands" (Bombal), 280
"New Mirror, The" (Petry), 1920
"New Music, The" (Barthelme, Donald), 188
New Novel, 460, 2045-2047, 2193
New Realism, 2911
New Short Story Theories, The (May), 2610
New World, The (Banks), 162
"New Year's Eve Adventure, A" (Hoffmann), 1220
"New Year's Sacrifice, The" (Lu), 1547
New Zealand, 2888, 2892-2895, 2897; and the Maori, 2895; 1950-1950, 2895; 1960-1970,
2896. See also "Geographical Index"
"Newborn Thrown in Trash and Dies" (Wideman), 2514
News of the Spirit (Smith), 2185
"Next Door" (Wolff), 2551
"Next in Line, The" (Bradbury), 335
Ngugi wa Thiong'o; "Fig Tree, The," 2854; "Meeting in the Dark, A," 2853
Nibelungenlied, 2675
"Nice Day at School" (Trevor), 2342
Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girl and Other Stories, The (Svevo), 2270
Nicolas de Troyes; Grand parangon des nouvelles nouvelles, Le, 2705
"Nigger, A" (Himes), 1206
"Nigger Jeff" (Dreiser), 785
Niggli, Josefina, 2952; Mexican Village, 2952
Night at the Movies, A (Coover), 635
"Night Before the Trial, The" (Chekhov), 543
"Night in Question, The" (Wolff), 2553
Night in Question, The (Wolff), 2552
"Night of the Great Season, The" (Schulz), 2109
"Night of the Iguana, The" (Williams, Tennessee), 2525
"Night Owls" (Leskov), 1493
"Nightfall" (Asimov), 97, 2636
"Nightgown, The" (Davies, Rhys), 696
"Nightingale, The" (Andersen), 74
Nightlines (McGahern), 2924
Nights with Uncle Remus (Harris, Joel Chandler), 1124
"Night-Sea Journey" (Barth), 177
Nin, Anaïs, 1760-1764; "Birth," 1762; "Je Suis le Plus Malade des Surrealistes,"
1762; "Mohican, The," 1761; "Ragtime," 1762; Under a Glass Bell and Other Stories, 1761
"Nine Ball" (Offutt), 1824
"Nine Billion Names of God, The" (Clarke), 593
Nine Women (Grau), 1067
"Nineteen Fifty-Five" (Walker), 2433
Nineteenth century; and African American writers, 2857; Canada, 2900; 1800-1840,
2736-2751; 1840-1880, 2752-2785; 1880-1920, 2786
"99.6" (West), 2496
Nippon eitaigura: Daifuku shin chfja-kyf. See Japanese Family Storehouse, The
Nisei, 2877, 2879
"No Door" (Wolfe), 2546
"No Name Woman" (Kingston), 1379
No One Writes to the Colonel (García Márquez), 953
"No One's a Mystery" (Tallent), 2277
No Sweetness Here and Other Stories (Aidoo), 2852
"Nobby's Run of Luck" (Zhang), 2582
"Nobody Will Laugh" (Kundera), 1414
Nobody's Business (Gilliatt), 1000
"Nobody's Home" (Godwin), 1014
"Noc wielkiego sezonu." See "Night of the Great Season, The"
Noël Du Fail; Baliverneries, 2705
"Nomad and Viper" (Oz), 1863
"Noon Wine" (Porter), 1952
Norris, Frank, 1765-1770; "Case for Lombroso, A," 1768; "Deal in Wheat, A," 1768;
"Reversion to Type, A," 1767; "Third Circle, The," 1767
"North, The" (Zamyatin), 2575
"North Light" (Helprin), 1169
"Northern Lights" (Harjo), 1119
"Nose, The" (Akutagawa), 39
"Nostalgia" (Mukherjee), 1724
"Not Quite Final" (Bausch), 204
Notable Discovery of Cozenage, A (Greene, Robert), 1083
"Notes from a Lady at a Dinner Party" (Malamud), 1601
Notes from the Underground (Dostoevski), 2794
"Nothing: A Preliminary Account" (Barthelme, Donald), 188
Noticen des Feuerwerkers Christopher Magalan, Die (Meckel), 1662
Nouvelle, 2749, 3064
Novel, 3064
Novelas amorosas y exemplares (Zayas y Sotomayor), 2706
Novelas ejempalares. See Exemplary Novels
Novelette, 3064
Novella, 2711, 2731, 2747, 2906, 3064; Renaissance, 2700-2707
Novellas of Hortense Calisher, The (Calisher), 413
Novelle, 3064
Novelle (Goethe), 1020
Novelle rusticane. See Little Novels of Sicily
Novellino, Il. See Il Novellino: The Hundred Old Tales
"Novotny's Pain" (Roth), 2062
Now That April's Here and Other Stories (Callaghan), 419
"Nuit de Cléopâtre, Une." See "One of Cleopatra's Nights"
"Nun, The" (Alarcón), 44
"Nun's Priest's Tale, The" (Chaucer), 527
Nuyorican, 2957
Nwapa, Flora; "This Is Lagos," 2853
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"O Yes" (Olsen), 1845
"O Youth and Beauty" (Cheever), 536
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1771-1779, 2838; Assignation, The, 1777; "Census Taker,
The," 1774; "Ghost Girls," 1778; "In the Autumn of the Year," 1776; "In the Region of
Ice," 1775; "Mark of Satan," 1778; "Raven's Wing," 1777; "Scream, The," 1776;
"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?," 1775; Will You Always Love Me?, 1777
Objective, 3067
Objective correlative, 3065
"Oblako, ozero, bashnya." See "Cloud, Castle, Lake"
O'Brien, Edna, 1780-1786, 2923; "Another Time," 1784; "Cords," 1781; Fanatic Heart,
A
, 1784; "Irish Revel, The," 2923; "Lantern Slides," 2923; "Love's Lesson," 1784;
Mrs. Reinhardt and Other Stories, 1783; Returning, 1783;
"Savages," 1783; "Scandalous Woman, A," 1782
O'Brien, Edward Joseph Harrington, 2600
O'Brien, Fitz-James, 1786-1790; "Diamond Lens, The," 1787; Duke Humphrey's Dinner,
1789; "What Was It?," 1789, 2774; "Wondersmith, The," 1788
O'Brien, Tim, 1790-1793; "Going After Cacciato," 1792; "Loon Point," 1793;
"Things They Carried, The," 1792; Things They Carried, The, 1792
"Occasion for Sin, An" (Montague), 2926
Occom, Samson, 2961
"Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, An" (Bierce), 258, 2788-2789
O'Connor, Flannery, 1794-1802, 2601, 2808, 2826; "Artificial Nigger, The," 1797;
Displaced Person, The, 1798; "Everything That Rises Must Converge," 1799;
Everything That Rises Must Converge, 1799; "Geranium, The," 1796; "Good Country
People," 1798; "Good Man Is Hard to Find, A," 2809; Good Man Is Hard to Find, A, 1797;
"Greenleaf," 1799, 2826; "Judgement Day," 1800; "Lame Shall Enter First, The," 1799;
"Life You Save May Be Your Own, The," 1797; "Parker's Back," 1800;
"Revelation," 1800, 2826; "Turkey, The," 1797
O'Connor, Frank, 1802-1809, 2603, 2606, 2755, 2761, 2815, 2888, 2914, 2921;
"Drunkard, The," 1806, 2815; "First Confession," 1806; "Guests of the Nation," 1804, 2815;
"In the Train," 1804; "Judas," 2921; Lonely Voice, The, 1807, 2753, 2914;
"Long Road to Ummera, The," 1805; Mirror in the Roadway, The, 1807; "My Oedipus
Complex," 1806; "Overcoat, The," 2761; "Story by Maupassant, A," 1806
October Country, The (Bradbury), 337
"Odnazhdy osen'iu." See "One Autumn Night"
O'Donovan, Michael Francis. See O'Connor, Frank
"Odour of Chrysanthemums" (Lawrence), 1451
Odyssey (Homer), 1225, 2661-2663
Ōe, Kenzaburō, 1809-1816; "Aghwee the Sky Monster," 1812; "Catch, The," 1811;
"Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away, The," 1812; Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness, 1814
"Of Birds and Beasts" (Kawabata), 1347
O'Faoláin, Seán, 1816-1822, 2603, 2920; "Childybawn," 1818, 2920; "Dividends," 1820;
"Fugue," 2920; "Fur Coat, The," 1819; "Hymeneal," 1820; "Man Who Invented Sin, The," 2920;
"Old Master, The," 1818; "Patriot, The," 1821; "Sugawn Chair, The," 1819
Ofen, Der. See Stove, The
"Offerings" (Mason), 1641
"Office Romances" (Trevor), 2343
Offutt, Chris, 1822-1825, 2839; "Blue Lick," 1824; "Leaving One, The," 1824;
"Nine Ball," 1824; "Out of the Woods," 2839; Out of the Woods, 1825; "Sawdust," 1823
O'Flaherty, Liam, 1826-1832, 2921; "Beggars, The," 1830; "Child of God, The," 1828;
"Fairy Goose, The," 1828, 2922; "Going into Exile," 2922; Joseph Conrad, 1827;
"Lovely Beasts, The," 1829; "Mountain Tavern, The," 1830; "Post Office, The," 1830;
"Red Barbara," 1829; "Red Petticoat, The," 1829; "Spring Sowing," 2921; "Two Lovely Beasts, The," 2922
Ogot, Grace; Land Without Thunder, 2853; "The Rain Came," 2853
"Oh,
Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" (James, M. R.), 1294
O'Hara, John, 1832-1838; "Andrea," 1834; "Doctor's Son, The," 1836; "You Can Always
Tell Newark," 1835
Ohrfeige und Sonstiges, Eine. See Slap in the Face Et Cetera, A
Ojos de perro azul (García Márquez), 952
O'Kelly, Seumas, 2918; "Weaver's Grave, The," 2918
Okri, Ben, 1838-1843; "Image-Vendor, The," 1840; "In the City of Red Dust," 1841;
Incidents at the Shrine, 1839; "Stars of the New Curfew," 1841; Stars of the
New Curfew
, 1841; "What the Tapster Saw," 1842; "When the Lights Return," 1842; "Worlds That Flourish," 1841
"Old Acquaintance" (Collier), 609
"Old Address, The" (Kavan), 1342
"Old Doc Rivers" (Williams, William Carlos), 2531
"Old Forest, The" (Taylor, Peter), 2298
"Old Halvorson Place, The" (Woiwode), 2541
"Old Lady, The" (Jhabvala), 1304
"Old Master, The" (O'Faoláin), 1818
"Old Morality, The" (Fuentes), 926
"Old Mortality" (Porter), 1952, 2807
"Old Neighborhood, The" (Dreiser), 786
"Old Order, The" (Porter), 1953
"Old Woman, The" (Honwana), 2848
"Old Woman Izergil" (Gorky), 1057
Oldest Olafs saga helga, 2671
"Ole Underwood" (Mansfield), 1621
Olsen, Tillie, 1843-1848; "Hey Sailor, What Ship?," 1845; "I Stand Here Ironing,"
1845; "O Yes," 1845; "Tell Me a Riddle," 1846
"Omoide." See "Recollections"
"Omphale" (Gautier), 985
"On Discovery" (Kingston), 1380
On Forsyte `Change (Galsworthy); , 947
"On Saturday Afternoon" (Sillitoe), 2144
"On Some Lines of Virgil" (Davenport), 687
"On the Beach" (Hale), 1097
"On the Downhill Side" (Ellison, Harlan), 834
"On the Edge of the Cliff" (Pritchett), 1975
"On the Golden Porch" (Tolstaya), 2321
On the Golden Porch (Tolstaya), 2322
On the Gulf (Spencer), 2206
"On the Mountainside" (Roberts), 2050
"On the Rafts" (Gorky), 1058
"On the Rivershore" (Tilghman), 2318
"On Trains" (McPherson), 2867
On with the Story (Barth), 180
"One Against Thebes" (Gordon, Caroline), 1049
"One Arm" (Kawabata), 1348
"One Arm" (Williams, Tennessee), 2528
"One Autumn Night" (Gorky), 1058
"One for the Road" (King), 1370
"One Holy Night" (Cisneros), 582
One Hundred Merrie and Delightsome Stories, 2704
"£1,000,000 Bank-Note, The" (Twain), 2362
"One of Cleopatra's Nights" (Gautier), 986
"Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, The" (Le Guin), 1479
Onetti, Juan Carlos, 1849-1852; "Dream Come True, A," 1850; "Hell Most Feared," 1850;
"Welcome, Bob," 1850
Onions, Oliver; Beckoning Fair One, The, 2649
"Only Rose, The" (Jewett), 1299
"Only the Master Shall Praise" (Oskison), 2964
"Only Traffic Signal on the Reservation Doesn't Flash Red Any More, The" (Alexie), 57
"Open Boat, The" (Crane), 657
Open to the Public (Spark), 2200
"Open Window, The" (Saki), 2074, 2798
"Optimists" (Ford), 881
Oral tale, 3065
Oral tradition, 2137, 2407, 2657, 2662, 2667, 2857, 3065; Native American, 2960-2961
"Oranging of America, The" (Apple), 87
"Orchards, The" (Thomas), 2310
Orczy, Baroness, 2616
"Order of Insects" (Gass), 977, 2830
Ordinary Love (Smiley), 2178
Orel, Harold, 2915
"Orgy, The" (de la Mare), 705
Oriental tale, 3065
"Origin of Sadness, The" (Morris), 1714
"Orlov Married Couple" (Gorky), 1058
"Orpheus" (Ovid), 1857
Ortiz, Simon, 2960; Fightin', 2967
"Oshkikiwe's Baby" (Oshogay), 2964
Oshogay, Delia; "Oshkikiwe's Baby," 2964
"Oskar" (Walser), 2440
Oskison, John; "Only the Master Shall Praise," 2964
"Ostatnia ucleczka ojca." See "Father's Last Escape"
Ostrovityane. See Islanders, The
"Otec." See "Father, The"
Other, 3065
"Other Kingdom" (Forster), 887, 889
"Other Miller" (Wolff), 2552
"Other Paris, The" (Gallant), 940
"Other Weapons" (Valenzuela), 2388
"Other World, The" (Zhang), 2581
Otogi-zōshi, 2929
"Ottilia." See "Confessions of Fitz-Boodle"
"Otto and the Magi" (Connell), 618
Otuel, 2693
"Our Story Begins" (Wolff), 2550
"Out of the Woods" (Offutt), 2839
Out of the Woods (Offutt), 1825
"Outcasts of Poker Flat, The" (Harte), 1135
"Outpost of Progress, An" (Conrad), 622
"Outsider, The" (Lovecraft), 1536
"Over Insurance" (Collier), 607
"Overcoat, The" (Gogol), 1027, 2761
"Overcoat II (Boyle, T. C.), 327
"Overloaded Man, The" (Ballard), 145
Overstreet, Bonaro Wilkinson, 2602, 2792
"Overtime" (Reid), 2029
Ovid, 1852-1860; "Medea," 1855; Metamorphoses, 1853, 2643, 2660;
"Orpheus," 1857; "Pan and Syrinx," 1856; "Python," 1855
"Ovtsebyk." See "Musk-ox, The"
"Owen's Father" (Woiwode), 2542
"Oxenhope" (Warner), 2453
Oxymoron, 3065
Oz, Amos, 1860-1865; "Before His Time," 1862; "Crusade," 1863; "Hill of Evil Counsel,
The," 1862; "Hollow Stone, A," 1863; "Late Love," 1863; "Mr. Levi," 1862;
"Nomad and Viper," 1863; "Setting the World to Rights," 1863; "Strange Fire," 1862;
"Trappist Monastery, The," 1863; "Upon This Evil Earth," 1863; "Way of the Wind," 1862;
Where the Jackals Howl and Other Stories, 1862
Ozick, Cynthia, 1865-1871, 2836; "Pagan Rabbi, The," 1866; "Puttermesser and the
Muscovite Cousin," 1869; "Puttermesser in Paradise," 1869; "Puttermesser Paired," 1869;
Puttermesser Papers, The, 1869; "Rosa," 1868; "Shawl, The," 1868, 2836
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P
Pa Jin, 2911
"Pagan Rabbi, The" (Ozick), 1866
"Pages from a Velvet Album" (Kiš), 1398
"Pages from Cold Point" (Bowles, Paul), 313
"Pain" (Fuentes), 927
Pain, Barry, 2603
"Painful Case, A" (Joyce), 1323
"Pains" (Weldon), 2474
"Painted Skin, The" (Pu), 1987
Painter, William; Palace of Pleasure, 2711
"Pair of Tickets, A" (Tan), 2282
Pak, Gary, 2884; Watcher of Waipuna and Other Stories, 2884
Pak, Ty, 2883; Guilt Payment, 2884
Palace of Pleasure (Painter), 2711
"Palace of Sleep, The" (Kavan), 1341
"Palace of the Moorish Kings, The" (Connell), 616
Palace Thief, The (Canin), 435
"Palais de Justice" (Helprin), 1169
"Pale Horse, Pale Rider" (Porter), 1953
"Pale Pink Roast, The" (Paley), 1874
Paley, Grace, 1872-1877, 2836; Collected Stories, The, 1875; "Come On, Ye Sons
of Art," 1874; "Conversations with My Father, A," 2836; "Goodbye and Good Luck," 1873;
"In the Garden," 1875; Little Disturbances of Man, The, 1873; "Long-Distance
Runner, The," 1876; "Pale Pink Roast, The," 1874; "Wants," 1874
Palm-of-the-Hand Stories (Kawabata), 2933
Palombe (Camus, Jean-Pierre), 2719
"Pan" (Schulz), 2108
"Pan and Syrinx" (Ovid), 1856
Panchatantra, 2700
"Pandora" (Nerval), 2768
Pandosto (Greene, Robert), 1082
"Pangs of Love" (Louie), 2875
Pangs of Love (Louie), 2875
"Papa, Snake, and I" (Honwana), 2847
"Paper Pills" (Anderson), 80
Parable, 2660-2661, 3065. See also "Category Index"
Paradise and Other Stories (Moravia), 1707
"Paradise Lounge, The" (Trevor), 2344
"Paradise Park" (Millhauser), 1685
Paradox, 3065
Parataxis, 3065
Pardo Bazán, Emilia, 1878-1883; Cuentos de Amor, 1880; "Descendant of El Cid, A,"
1879; "Don Juan's Last Illusion," 1880; "Locket, The," 1881; "Revenge, The," 1881;
"White Lock of Hair," 1880
Paredes, Américo, 2953; "Hammon and the Beans, The," 2953; Hammon and the Beans and
Other Stories, The
, 2953
Paredes, Raymund, 2952
Parent's Assistant, The (Edgeworth), 809
"Park City" (Beattie), 215
Parker Pyne Investigates. See Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective
Parker Pyne stories, 575
Parker, Dorothy, 1883-1887; "Big Blonde," 1885; "Telephone Call, A," 1884;
"Waltz, The," 1884
"Parker's Back" (O'Connor, Flannery), 1800
Parlement of Foules (Chaucer), 521
Parody, 3065. See also "Category Index"
Partners, The (Auchincloss), 121
"Partners, The" (Friedman), 918
Partners in Crime (Christie), 576, 2619
"Party Blues" (Minot), 1688
Pasco, Allan H., 2608
"Paseo." See "Walk, The" (Donoso)
"Passenger" (Wolff), 2552
"Passing of Grandison, The" (Chesnutt), 553
Passionate North, The (Sansom), 2087
"Past One at Rooney's" (Henry), 1185
Pasternak, Boris, 1887-1892; "Childhood of Luvers, The," 1889; "District in the Rear, A,"
1891; "Letters from Tula," 1889; "Mark of Apelles, The," 1888; Safe-Conduct, A, 1889;
Second Birth, 1891; "Story, The," 1890; "Story of a Contraoctave, The," 1888;
"Without Love," 1889
"Pastoral Care" (Gardner), 958
Pastures of Heaven, The (Steinbeck), 2235
"Patricia, Edith and Arnold" (Thomas), 2308
"Patriot, The" (O'Faoláin), 1821
"Patriotism" (Mishima), 1693, 2822, 2933
"Patrol, The" (Lem), 1485
Pattee, Fred Lewis, 2600, 2606, 2757
"Pattern of Perfection, The" (Hale), 1098
Pattern of Perfection, The (Hale), 1098
"Paul's Case" (Cather), 487, 2790
"Paura alla Scala." See "Scala Scare, The"
Pavese, Cesare, 1893-1898; "End of August, The," 1897; "Family, The," 1895;
"First Love," 1896; "Free Will," 1896; "Land of Exile," 1894; "Leather Jacket, The," 1895;
"Suicides," 1895; "Summer Storm," 1895; "Wedding Trip," 1895
"Pawnbroker's Wife, The" (Spark), 2198
"Payoff" (Queen), 2015
"Peace of Utrecht, The" (Munro), 1732
Peaceable Kingdom, The (Prose), 1978
"Peaches" (McGahern), 1567
"Peaches, The" (Thomas), 2307
"Peasant Marey, The" (Dostoevski), 2774
"Pederson Kid, The" (Gass), 977
Pensador, El (Clavijo y Fajardo), 2732
"People Like That Are the Only People Here" (Moore, Lorrie), 1701
"People Who Don't Know the Answers" (Tyler, Anne), 2368
Peoples Redemption Party (Nigeria), 5
Per le vie (Verga), 2396
Perabo, Susan, 1898-1901; "Counting the Ways," 1899; "Greater Grace of Carlisle, The,"
1900; "Measure of Devotion, The," 1899; "Rocks over Kyburz, The," 1900; "Thick as Thieves," 1899
Perceval (Chrétien de Troyes), 570
"Perekhod cherez Zbruch." See "Crossing into Poland"
Perelman, S. J., 1901-1906; Acres and Pains, 1903; "Entered as Second-Class Matter," 1904;
"Tomorrow--Fairly Cloudy," 1903
Peretz, Isaac Leib, 1906-1910; "Bontshe the Silent," 1908; "If Not Higher," 1909;
"Three Gifts, The," 1909
"Perfect Day for Bananafish, A" (Salinger), 2080
Perfect Vacuum, A (Lem), 1483
"Perfume Sea, The" (Laurence), 1440
Periodical essay/sketch, 3065
Perl, Arnold; World of Sholom Aleichem, The, 50
Permanent Errors (Price), 1964
Perry, Bliss, 2601; Study of Prose Fiction, A, 2758
Personification, 3065
"Pervaia liubov." See "First Love" (Babel)
"Pervaya lyubov." See "First Love" (Turgenev)
"Perviy zub." See "My First Tooth"
"Pesn' torzhestvuiushchei liubvi." See "Song of Triumphant Love, The"
"Pesnia o sokole." See "Song of the Falcon, The"
"Peters" (Tolstaya), 2323
Petite Pallace of Pettie His Pleasure, A (Pettie), 2711
Petronius, 1911-1916, 2664; "Boy of Pergamum, The," 1912; Cena Trimalchionis,
1912-1913; Satyricon, The, 1911, 2664; "Widow of Ephesus, The," 1913
Petry, Ann, 1916-1923, 2865; "Bones of Louella Brown, The," 1921; "In Darkness and
Confusion," 1919; "Like a Winding Sheet," 1919; "Migraine Workers, The," 1922; "Miss Muriel," 1920;
Miss Muriel and Other Stories, 1919; "Mother Africa," 1922; "Necessary Knocking on the
Door, The," 1921; "New Mirror, The," 1920; "Witness, The," 1921
Pettie, George; Petite Pallace of Pettie His Pleasure, A, 2711
"Pevtsy." See "Singers, The"
Phaedrus, 2627
"Phantom of the Movie Palace, The" (Coover), 636
"Phantom 'Rickshaw, The" (Kipling), 1391
"Pheasants" (Woiwode), 2540
"Phelim O'Toole's Courtship" (Carleton), 457
Phillips, Jayne Anne, 1923-1926, 2834; "Bess," 1924; "Home," 2834; "Lechery," 2834;
"Something That Happened," 1925
Philombe, Rene; "The True Martyr Is Me," 2849
"Philosopher, The" (Anderson), 78
"Phineas" (Knowles), 1409
Phineas (Knowles), 1407
"Photo Album, The" (Dovlatov), 774
"Piano Tuner, The" (Gautreaux), 990
"Piano Tuner's Wife, The" (Trevor), 2345
Pickwick Papers (Dickens), 726. See also "Queer
Client"
"Picture Horse, The" (Pu), 1987
Pictures in the Fire (Collier), 607
"Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" (Borges), 291, 2822
"Pigeon Feathers" (Updike), 2828
Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories (Updike), 2377
Pilgrim Hawk: A Love Story, The (Wescott), 2493
"Pillar of Salt" (Jackson), 1276
Ping, Wang; American Visa, 2877
"Pippa's Story" (Chang), 512
Pirandello, Luigi, 1927-1933; "Adrianna Takes a Trip," 1930; "Signora Frola and Her
Son-in-Law, Signor Ponza," 1930; "Sunlight and Shadow," 1929
"Pisma iz Tuly." See "Letters from Tula"
"Pis'mo." See "Letter, A"
"Pit and the Pendulum, The" (Poe), 2766
"Pit Strike" (Sillitoe), 2145
"Pitched Out" (Friedman), 919
"Pkhentz" (Sinyavsky), 2169
"Place I've Never Been, A" (Leavitt), 1465
Place I've Never Been, A (Leavitt), 2834
"Plain Pleasures" (Bowles, Jane), 308
Plath, Sylvia, 1933-1936; "Fifteen-Dollar Eagle, The," 1935; "Johnny Panic and the
Bible of Dreams," 1934; "Mothers," 1935; "Sunday at the Mintons'," 1934
"Playing Ball on Hampstead Heath" (Richler), 2039
"Pleasure of Her Company, The" (Smiley), 2177
Plomer, Franklyn, 1937-1939
Plomer, William, 1940; "Black Peril," 1939; "Child of Queen Victoria, The," 1938;
"Ula Masonda," 1938; "When the Sardines Came," 1938
Plot, 3065
"Ploughing of Leaca-na-Naomb, The" (Corkery, James), 2920
Plunder (Meckel), 1663
"Po' Sandy" (Chesnutt), 551
"Poaching" (Wolff), 2552
"Podlets." See "Scoundrel, The"
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1940-1948, 2599-2600, 2604, 2611, 2613, 2632-2633, 2644, 2741,
2759, 2796, 2857; "Cask of Amontillado, The," 2765; "Descent into the Maelström, A" , 1942; "Fall of the House of Usher, The," 1276, 1945, 2644, 2743,
2767; "Masque of the Red Death, The," 2766; "Murders in the Rue Morgue, The," 2613;
"Pit and the Pendulum, The," 2766; "Purloined Letter, The," 1944; "Raven, The," 2791;
"Tell-Tale Heart, The," 2767
"Poet, The" (Hesse), 1190
"Poetess, A" (Freeman), 911
Poetic Edda, 2670
Poetic realism, 2793
Pohl, Frederik, 2637
Point of view, 3065
Poirot, Hercule, 2620
Poirot Investigates (Christie), 2619
Poirot stories, 576
"Polarities" (Atwood), 111
"Polunoshchniki." See "Night Owls"
"Pomegranate Trees" (Saroyan), 2093
"Pomeriggio, Adamo, Un." See "Adam, One Afternoon"
"Poor Franzi" (Gallant), 941
"Poor Koko" (Fowles), 894
"Poor Little Rich Town" (Vonnegut), 2420
"Poor Thing, The" (Powers), 1959
"Pope's Mule, The" (Daudet), 679
Popular Tales (Edgeworth), 811
"Porcelain Salamander, The" (Card), 448
"Porn" (Walker), 2868
"Portable Phonograph, The" (Clark), 587
Porter, Katherine Anne, 1949-1956; "Circus, The," 1953; "Cracked Looking-Glass, The," 1951;
"Downward Path to Wisdom, The," 1954; "Fig Tree, The," 1954; "Flowering Judas," 1951, 2807;
"Grave, The," 1954, 2807; "He," 1951; "Holiday," 1955; "Leaning Tower, The," 1954;
"María Concepción," 1951; "Noon Wine," 1952; "Old Mortality," 1952, 2807; "Old Order, The," 1953;
"Pale Horse, Pale Rider," 1953; "Rope," 1951; "Theft," 1952
Porter, William Sydney. See Henry, O.
Portmanteau words, 3065
"Portobello Road, The" (Spark), 2199
"Portrait, The" (Huxley), 1258
"Portrait of Shunkin, A" (Tanizaki), 2285
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog (Thomas), 2307
Portuguese African short fiction, 2846
"Possession of Angela Bradshaw, The" (Collier), 606
"Posson Jone" (Cable), 2779
Post, Melville Davisson, 2616
"Post Office, The" (O'Flaherty), 1830
Postcolonial, 3065
Postmodernism, 2828, 3066. See also "Category Index"
"Poteen Maker, The" (McLaverty), 2925
Potocki, Count Jan, 2643; Saragossa Manuscript, The, 2643
"Pourriture Noble, La" (Stern), 2242
"Povest o tom, kak possorilsya Ivan Ivanovich s Ivanom Nikiforovichem See
"Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich, The"
Powers, J. F., 1957-1961; "Blue Island," 1959; "Devil Was the Joker, The," 1958;
"Forks, The," 1958; "Lions, Harts, Leaping Does," 1960; "Poor Thing, The," 1959;
"Prince of Darkness," 1958; "Valiant Woman, The," 1959
Powers of Attorney (Auchincloss), 120
Pozhar (Rasputin), 2026
Prairie Home Companion, A (Keillor), 1354
Pratt, Mary Louise, 2608
"Preciosidade." See "Preciousness"
"Preciousness" (Lewis), 1519
"Predicament, A" (Callaghan), 418
"Prelude" (Mansfield), 1622
"Premier amour." See "First Love" (Beckett)
"President Regrets, The" (Queen), 2015
"Pretty Girl, The" (Dubus), 790
"Pretty Ice" (Robison), 2054
Price, Reynolds, 1961-1968; "Chain of Love, A," 1963; Collected Stories, The,
1966; "Company of the Dead, The," 1966; "Deeds of Light," 1966; "Enormous Door," 1966;
"Fare to the Moon," 1965; Foreseeable Future, The, 1965; "Golden Child," 1966;
"Happiness of Others, The," 1964; Names and Faces of Heroes, The, 1963; Permanent Errors, 1964; "Truth and Lies," 1967
Pricksongs and Descants (Coover), 634
"Priest of Shiga Temple and His Love, The" (Mishima), 1692
"Priest's Wife, The" (L'Heureux), 1511
"Prikliucheniia obeziany." See "Adventures of a Monkey, The"
"Prime Leaf" (Warren), 2458
"Primo amore." See "First Love" (Pavese)
"Primo rapporto sulla terra dell' Inviato speciale della luna" (Moravia), 1706
"Prince of Darkness" (Powers), 1958
Prince of Homburg, The (Kipling), 1400
"Prince Who Was a Thief, The" (Dreiser), 785
"Princess, The" (Lawrence), 1455
Princess Brambilla (Hoffmann), 1220
Prinz Friedrich von Homburg. See Prince of Homburg, The
"Prioresss Tale, The" (Chaucer), 527
"Prisoner Who Wore Glasses, The" (Head), 1154
Pritchett, V. S., 1968-1976, 2604; "Accompanist, The," 1974; "Blind Love," 1973;
"Camberwell Beauty, The" , 1974; "Diver, The," 1974; "Handsome Is as Handsome Does," 1971;
"On the Edge of the Cliff," 1975; "Sense of Humour," 1971; "Skeleton, The," 1973;
"When My Girl Comes Home," 1972
"Private Lies" (Mason), 1643
"Problem of the General Store, The" (Hoch), 1213
Problems and Other Stories (Updike), 2380
"Probuzhdenie." See "Awakening"
"Procura de uma dignidade, A" (Lispector), 1520
"Procurator of Judea, The" (France), 900
"Prodigious Milligram, The" (Arreola), 92
"Products" (Moravia), 1708
"Professor" (Hughes), 1240
"Project: Earth" (Dick), 722
"Project for a Trip to China" (Sontag), 2194
"Promised Land, The" (Sembène), 2850
Pronzini, Bill, 2621
"Property" (Verga), 2396
"Prophecy, The" (Alarcón), 43
"Prophet's Hair, The" (Rushdie), 2070
Prose, Francine, 1977-1980; "Everyday Disorders,"
1977;
"Guided Tours of Hell," 1977, 1979; Peaceable Kingdom, The, 1978
Prose Edda (Sturluson), 2670, 2672
Prosody, 3066
"Prospect of the Sea, A" (Thomas), 2309
"Proszę państwa do gazu." See "This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen"
Protagonist, 3066
"Proud Costello, MacDermot's Daughter, and the Bitter Tongue" (Yeats), 2568
Proulx, E. Annie, 1980-1983, 2839; "Brokeback Mountain," 1981, 2840;
"Bunchgrass Edge of the World, The," 1982; Close Range: Wyoming Stories, 1981;
"Half-Skinned Steer, The," 1982; "Mud Below, The," 1982
"Prowler" (Tallent), 2276
"Prussian Officer, The" (Lawrence), 1453, 2814
"Prussian Vase, The" (Edgeworth), 810
"Psychology" (Mansfield), 1619
"Psychopolis" (McEwan), 1565
"Psychotaxidermist, The" (Vizenor), 2407
Pu Songling, 1984-1990; "Painted Skin, The," 1987; "Picture Horse, The," 1987;
"Pupils of the Eyes That Talked, The," 1986; "Tiger of Zhaochang, The," 1986
"Public Pool, A" (Adams), 11
Puck of Pook's Hill (Kipling), 1392
"Pueblerina." See "Small Town Affair"
"Puerta cerrada, La." See "Closed Door, The"
Puerto Rico, 2957
Pulp magazines, 1535, 2616, 2634
Pun, 3066
"Punch, The" (Friedman), 917
"Pupils of the Eyes That Talked, The" (Pu), 1986
Purdy, James, 1990-1997; "Color of Darkness," 1993; Color of Darkness, 1993;
"Cutting Edge," 1993; "Dawn," 1994; "Don't Call Me by My Right Name," 1993; Dream Palace, 1995;
"Eventide," 1996; "Everything Under the Sun," 1994; "Lily's Party," 1995; "Man and Wife," 1996;
"Rapture," 1994; "Sleep Tight," 1993; "Some of These Days," 1994; "Sound of Talking," 1996;
"Summer Tidings," 1994; "Why Can't They Tell You Why?," 1993
"Purloined Letter, The" (Poe), 1944
"Purple Jar, The" (Edgeworth), 809
Pushkin, Alexander, 1997-2004, 2748; "Blizzard, The," 2000; Queen of Spades, The,
2001, 2748-2749; "Shot, The," 1999; "Squire's Daughter, The," 2001;
"Undertaker, The," 2000
"Putois" (France), 901
"Puttermesser and the Muscovite Cousin" (Ozick), 1869
"Puttermesser in Paradise" (Ozick), 1869
"Puttermesser Paired" (Ozick), 1869
Puttermesser Papers, The (Ozick), 1869
"Putting Granny Out to Die" (Dazai), 701
Pynchon, Thomas, 2004-2010; "Entropy," 2007; "Low-Lands," 2006; "Mortality and Mercy
in Vienna," 2006; "Secret Integration, The," 2008; Slow Learner, 2009;
"Small Rain, The," 2005; "Under the Rose," 2008
"Python" (Ovid), 1855
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Q
Qian Zhongshu, 2911
"Quail for Mr. Forester" (Humphrey), 1246
"Qualcosa era successo." See "Catastrophe"
"Queen for a Day" (Banks), 164
Queen of Spades, The (Pushkin), 2001, 2748-2749
Queen, Ellery, 2011-2017, 2620; Adventures of Ellery Queen, The, 2620;
"African Traveller, The," 2014; "Bearded Lady, The," 2014; "Dead Ringer," 2014;
"Invisible Lover, The," 2015; "Payoff," 2015; "President Regrets, The," 2015
"Queer Client" (Dickens), 727
"Quest for Blank Claveringi, The" (Highsmith), 1195
"Quest of the Holy Grail, The" (Malory), 1604
Quests of Simon Ark, The (Hoch), 1211
Quicker than the Eye (Bradbury), 339
Quiller-Couch, Arthur, 2648
Quiroga, Horacio, 2017-2022, 2942; "Anaconda," 2021; "Dead Man, The," 2020;
"Decapitated Chicken, The," 2019; "Drifting," 2020; "Feather Pillow, The," 2019;
"Juan Darién," 2021; "Miel silvestre, La," 2020; "Son, The," 2020
"Quitting Smoking" (Oates), 1579
"Quo Vadimus" (White), 2508
Quotations from Other Lives (Gilliatt), 1000
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R
"Rabbi, The" (Babel), 132
"Ragtime" (Nin), 1762
"Raid: A Volunteer's Story, The" (Tolstoy), 2329
"Railway Accident" (Mann), 2816
"Rain" (Maugham), 1648
"Rain Came, The" (Ogot), 2853
Rain of Scorpions and Other Writings (Trambley), 2955
Rainwater, Catherine, 2966
"Rainy Season, A" (Tuohy), 2351
"Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters" (Salinger), 2079
"Ram in the Thicket, The" (Morris), 1712
Rambler, The (Johnson, Samuel), 1315
Rani jadi. See Early Sorrows
"Ransom of Red Chief, The" (Henry), 1186
"Rappaccini's Daughter" (Hawthorne), 1148, 2764
"Rapture" (Purdy), 1994
"Rapunzel" (Grimm), 1088
"Rashōmon" (Akutagawa), 38-39, 2932
Rasputin, Valentin, 2023-2027; Borrowed Time, 2025; Farewell to Matyora,
2025; "French Lessons," 2024; Live and Remember, 2025; Money for Maria, 2025;
Pozhar, 2026; "Vasily and Vasilisa," 2024
Rasselas (Johnson, Samuel), 1316
"Rasskaz o samom glavnom." See "Story About the Most Important Thing, A"
"Rautavaara's Case" (Dick), 721
"Ravages of Spring, The" (Gardner), 958
"Raven, The" (Poe), 2791
"Raven's Wing" (Oates), 1777
"Raymond's Run" (Bambara), 154
"Razor, The" (Nabokov), 1740
"Real Estate" (Moore, Lorrie), 1700
"Real Thing, The" (James, Henry), 1286, 2789
Realism, 2739, 2774, 2786, 2788, 2792, 2801, 2937, 3066. See also
"Category Index"
Realities of Fiction, The (Hale), 1099
"Realpolitik" (Wilson), 2536
Reardon, B. P.; Collected Ancient Greek Novels, 2665
Reception theory, 3066
"Recital for the Pope, A" (Stern), 2242
"Recollections" (Dazai), 700
"Red" (Maugham), 1647
"Red Barbara" (O'Flaherty), 1829
Red Cavalry (Babel), 131
"Red Clowns" (Cisneros), 582
"Red Girl's Reasoning, A" (Johnson, E. Pauline), 2962
Red Hunters and the Animal People (Eastman), 2963
"Red-Letter Day, A" (Taylor, Elizabeth), 2292
"Red Petticoat, The" (O'Flaherty), 1829
"Red Signal, The" (Christie), 574
"Red Wind" (Chandler), 508
"Redemption" (Gardner), 961
"Redhead, The" (Gilliatt), 999, 1002
"Red-Headed League, The" (Doyle), 778
"Reena" (Marshall), 1637
Reena and Other Stories (Marshall), 1636
"Reeve's Tale, The" (Chaucer), 526-527
"Reflections" (Carter), 470
"Reflections on Courtship and Marriage" (Franklin), 2730
Reid, Elwood, 2027-2030; "Buffalo," 2029; "Laura Borealis," 2029; "Overtime," 2029;
"What Salmon Know," 2028
"Reine du Matin et Soliman, Prince des Génies, La." See "Tale of the Queen
of the Morning and Soliman the Prince of the Genni, The"
"Reise durch die nacht." See "Journey Through the Night"
"Relative Stranger, A" (Baxter), 208
Relative Stranger, A (Baxter), 208
Religious, 2658, 2670. See also "Category Index"
"Rembrandt, The" (Wharton), 2501
"Rembrandt's Hat" (Malamud), 1600
Reminiscence, 3066
"Remission" (Mars-Jones), 1632
Renaissance, 2700-2709, 2711, 2715-2716, 2718-2720, 2722, 2724
"Renegade, The" (Camus, Albert), 432
"Renegade, The" (Jackson), 1275
Renewal Time (Mphahlele), 1719
"Repairer of Reputations, The" (Chambers), 2649
"Requiem" (Heinlein), 2636
"Rescue Party" (Clarke), 591
"Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin, The" (Williams, Tennessee), 2526
Reservation Blues (Alexie), 2967
"Residents and Transients" (Mason), 1641
"Response to a Request" (Walser), 2440
"Rest Cure, The" (Huxley), 1258
Rest of Life, The (Gordon, Mary), 1054
Rethinking Sorrow (Childs), 2930
"Retreating Figures" (Endō), 843
"Return, The" (Armstrong), 2964
"Return of a Private, The" (Garland), 967
Return to Tsugaru (Dazai), 700
Returning (O'Brien, Edna), 1783
"Reunion, The" (Angelou), 84
"Revelation" (Davies, Rhys), 697
"Revelation" (O'Connor, Flannery), 1800, 2826
Revenge (Harrison), 1128
"Revenge, The" (Pardo Bazán), 1881
"Revenge of Hannah Kemhuff, The" (Walker), 2431
"Revenge of the Lawn" (Brautigan), 344
"Reverend Father Gaucher's Elixir, The" (Daudet), 678
"Reversion to Type, A" (Norris), 1767
"Revolt of `Mother,' The" (Freeman), 909
"Revolver, The" (Pardo Bazán), 1881
Reynolds, John; Triumphs of Gods Revenge, Against the Crying, and Execrable Sinne
of Murther, The
, 2719
Rhetorical device, 3066
"Rhinoceros, Some Ladies, and a Horse, A" (Stephens), 2919
Rhodius, Apollonius; Argonautica, 2663
Rhys, Jean, 2031-2035, 2945; "Grosse Fifi, La," 2032; "Hunger," 2032; "I Used to
Live Here Once," 2034; Left Bank and Other Stories, The, 2031; "Lotus, The," 2032;
"Sleep It Off, Lady," 2033; Sleep It Off, Lady, 2033; "Till September Petronella," 2032
Ribas, Oscar, 2847
"Rich" (Gilchrist), 993
Rich, Barnaby; Farewell to Militarie Profession, 2711
"Rich Boy, The" (Fitzgerald), 867
"Rich Brother, The" (Wolff), 2552
"Rich People" (Hale), 1098
Richler, Mordecai, 2036-2041; "Playing Ball on Hampstead Heath," 2039; "Some Grist
for Mervyn's Mill," 2038; "Summer My Grandmother Was Supposed to Die, The," 2037
"Riddle, The" (de la Mare), 705
"Right Side, The" (Collier), 606
"Ring, The" (Bender), 241
"Ring, The" (MacMahon), 2926
"Rip Van Winkle" (Irving), 1270, 2738-2740
Rivera, Tomás, 2041-2044, 2954; . . . And the earth did not part, 2042, 2954;
"First Communion," 2043; Harvest, The, 2954; "Salamanders, The," 2043;
"Zoo Island," 2043
Riverside Counselor's Stories, The, 2928-2929
"Road from Colonus, The" (Forster), 889
Roads of Destiny (Henry), 1185
Robbe-Grillet, Alain, 2045-2048; "Dressmaker's Dummy, The," 2046; "Secret Room, The,"
2046-2047; "Shore, The," 2046; "Way Back, The," 2046
"Robbery, A" (Leskov), 1493
"Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning" (Barthelme, Donald), 186
Roberts, Elizabeth Madox, 2049-2052; "Haunted Palace, The," 2050; "On the Mountainside,"
2050; "Sacrifice of the Maidens, The," 2050; "Scarecrow, The," 2051
Roberts, Sir Charles G. D.; "Do Seek Their Meat from God," 2900
Robison, Mary, 2052-2059, 2832; "Adore Her," 2057; "Amateur's Guide to the Night, An,"
2055; Believe Them, 2056; "Bud Parrot," 2054; "Coach," 2055; "For Real," 2057;
"Heart," 2055; "I Am Twenty-One," 2056; "In Jewel," 2056; "Kite and Paint," 2054; "May Queen," 2055;
"Nature of Almost Everything, The," 2055; "Pretty Ice," 2054; "Seizing Control," 2056;
"Trying," 2057; "Yours," 2056
"Robot" (Davenport), 684
"Rock Springs" (Ford), 882, 2833
"Rocks over Kyburz, The" (Perabo), 1900
Rodriguez, Abraham, Jr.; Boy Without a Flag, The, 2958
"Roger Malvin's Burial" (Hawthorne), 1145
Rogue literature, 3066
Rohrberger, Mary, 2601; Hawthorne and the Modern Short Story, 2758
"Roi Candaule, Le." See "King Candaules"
Rojas, Fernando de; Celestina, La, 2720
Roland and Vernagu, 2693
Roman de Brut (Wace), 2694
Romance, 2665, 2729, 3066; Elizabethan, 2710; medieval, 2691-2699. See also
"Category Index"
"Romance and Sally Byrd" (Glasgow), 1009
Romantic Egoists, The (Auchincloss), 119
Romanticism, 2731-2732, 2756, 2768, 2786, 2788, 2801, 3066. See also
"Category Index"
Rome, 2692
"Roog" (Dick), 721
"Room for Mistakes" (Tilghman), 2318
"Room of Frail Dancers, A" (Helprin), 1169
"Room Without a Telephone, The" (Lewis), 1504
"Rope" (Porter), 1951
"Rosa" (Ozick), 1868
"Rose for Emily, A" (Faulkner), 858, 2805
Rose Garden, The (Sa4di of Shiraz), 2661
"Roselily" (Walker), 2430
Ross, Danforth, 2604
"Rot, The" (Lewis), 1505
"Rot" (Williams, Joy), 2522
Roth, Philip, 2059-2064, 2813; "Defender of the Faith," 2062, 2813; "Eli, the Fanatic,"
2060; "Epstein," 2061; "'I Always Wanted You to Admire My Fasting'," 2063;
"Novotny's Pain," 2062
"Rothschild's Fiddle" (Chekhov), 546
Rotting Hill (Lewis), 1505
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 2731
"Royal Jelly" (Dahl), 666
"Rozhdenie cheloveka." See "Man Is Born, A"
Rudd, Steele, 2889
"Ruinas circulares, Las." See "Circular Ruins, The"
"Rules of the Game" (Tan), 2281
Rulfo, Juan, 2064-2068; "Because We Are So Poor," 2065; "Luvina," 2066;
"Talpa," 2066; "Tell Them Not to Kill Me," 2066
Rumpole, Horace, 2622
Rumpole à la Carte (Mortimer), 2623
"Rus." See "In Old Russia"
Rushdie, Salman, 2068-2071, 2973, 2976; "At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers," 2070;
"Courter, The," 2070; East, West: Stories, 2976; "Good Advice Is Rarer than Rubies," 2069;
"Prophet's Hair, The," 2070; "Vina Divina," 2070
Russ, Joanna, 2641
Russia; 1880-1920, 2794; modern short story and, 2748. See also
"Geographical Index"
"Rustic Chivalry" (Verga), 2395
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"S ANGEL" (Chabon), 500
Sa'di of Shiraz; Rose Garden, The, 2661
"Sabbatha and Solitude" (Williams, Tennessee), 2527
"Sacajawea's Gold" (Hoch), 1212
"Sacrifice of the Maidens, The" (Roberts), 2050
"Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, The" (Harris, Joel Chandler), 1123
Safe-Conduct, A (Pasternak), 1889
"Safe Place, The" (Morris), 1712
"Safeway" (Barthelme, Frederick), 191
Saga, 2669-2676, 2679, 2700, 3066; Family, 2672, 2675-2676; Kings', 2671-2672; Past
Times, 2675
Saga of Gisli, The, 2674
Saga of the Volsungs, The, 2675
Saikaku okimiyage (Ihara Saikaku), 1266
Saikaku shokoku-banashi (Ihara Saikaku), 1265
"Sailor, The" (Wescott), 2492
"Sailor-Boy's Tale, The" (Dinesen), 741, 2817
"Sailor off the Bremen" (Shaw), 2131
"Saint Augustine's Pigeon" (Connell), 617
"St. Cecilia" (Kleist), 1404
"St. Columba and the River" (Dreiser), 787
"Saint Manuel Bueno, Martyr" (Unamuno y Jugo), 2373
"Saint Marie" (Erdrich), 849, 2967
St. Mawr (Lawrence), 1455
"Saint Paul" (Smith), 2184
"Sa'iq al-qitar" (Mahfouz), 1588
Saki, 2072-2076, 2648, 2797; Beasts and Super-Beasts, 2074; "Cousin Theresa,"
2073; "Open Window, The," 2074, 2798; "Sredni Vashtar," 2074; When William Came, 2075
"Salamanders, The" (Rivera), 2043
Saldivar, Ramon, 2953
Salinger, J. D., 2076-2083; "For Esmé--with Love and Squalor," 2078; "Franny," 2080;
Franny and Zooey, 2080; "Glass Family Cycle,The," 2079; "Hapworth 16, 1924," 2082;
"Perfect Day for Bananafish, A," 2080; "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters," 2079;
"Seymour: An Introduction," 2082; "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut," 2079;
"Zooey," 2080
Salkey, Andrew, 2946
"Salt" (Babel), 132
"Salt and Sawdust" (Narayan), 1754
"Salvation of a Forsyte, The" (Galsworthy), 947
"Samaia liubimaia." See "Most Beloved"
Same Door, The (Updike), 2377
"Same Place, Same Things" (Gautreaux), 988
"San Manuel Bueno, mártir." See "Saint Manuel Bueno, Martyr"
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (Schulz), 2110
"Sanctuary" (Dreiser), 785
"Sandman, The" (Hoffmann), 1220
"Sandstone Farmhouse, A" (Updike), 2383
Sansei, 2877
"Sanshō the Steward" (Mori, Ōgai), 2932
Sansom, William, 2084-2090; "Among the Dahlias," 2088; Among the Dahlias,
2088; Contest of Ladies, A, 2088; "Difficulty with a Bouquet," 2087; "Episode at
Gastein," 2088; Fireman Flower, 2085; "Girl on the Bus, The," 2087; "Life, Death," 2088;
Lord Love Us, 2088; "Marmalade Bird, The," 2089; Marmalade Bird, The, 2089;
Passionate North, The, 2087; "Something Terrible, Something Lovely," 2086; Something
Terrible, Something Lovely
, 2086; South, 2087; "Three Dogs of Siena," 2087;
Touch of the Sun, A, 2088; "Tutti-Frutti," 2087; "Various Temptations," 2089; "Vertical
Ladder, The," 2086; "Wall, The," 2085; "Witness, The," 2086
"Santelices" (Donoso), 757
Santos, Bienvenido, 2881; "Contender, The," 2881; "Day the Dancers Came, The," 2881
Saragossa Manuscript, The (Potocki), 2643
"Sarah" (Lavin), 2923
"Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story" (Banks), 164
"Sarah Gwynn" (Moore, George), 1697
Sargeson, Frank, 2893; "Hole That Jack Dug, The," 2894; "Making of a New Zealander,
The," 2894
Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino, 2941
Saroyan, William, 2090-2095; "Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, The," 2092;
My Name Is Aram, 2093; "Pomegranate Trees," 2093; "Summer of the Beautiful
White Horse, The," 2093
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 2095-2102, 2818; "Childhood of a Boss," 2099; "Erostratus," 2098;
"Wall, The," 2097, 2819
"Sarugashima." See "Island of Monkeys, The"
"Saruzuka." See "Mound of the Monkey's Grave, The"
"Sarzan" (Diop), 2849
Sasaki, R. A., 2880; Loom and Other Stories, The, 2880
"Sashka Khristov" (Babel), 132
Satire, 2637, 2664, 3066. See also "Category Index"
Satires (Horace), 2627
"Saturday Afternoon" (Caldwell), 406
"Saturn" (Gates), 982
"Saturn Street" (Leavitt), 1468
Satyricon, The (Petronius), 1911, 2664
"Saucer of Larks, The" (Friel), 922
"Savages" (O'Brien, Edna), 1783
Save Every Lamb (Sturgeon), 2262
"`Savonarola' Brown" (Beerbohm), 227
"Sawdust" (Offutt), 1823
"Say Could That Lad Be I" (Lavin), 1446
"Say Yes" (Wolff), 2832
Sayers, Dorothy L., 2618; Hangman's Holiday, 2618
Sayles, John, 2102-2105; Anarchists' Convention, The, 2104; "At the Anarchists'
Convention," 2103; "I-80 Nebraska, m. 490-m. 205," 2104; "Schiffman's Ape," 2104;
"Tan," 2104
"Scala Scare, The" (Buzzati), 383
"Scandal and the Press, A" (Čapek), 439
"Scandal in Bohemia, A" (Doyle), 778
"Scandalous Woman, A" (O'Brien, Edna), 1782
"Scarecrow, The" (Roberts), 2051
"Scat" (Major), 1593
Scenes of Childhood (Warner), 2454
"Schalken the Painter" (Le Fanu), 1471
"Schiffman's Ape" (Sayles), 2104
"Schläferung." See "Sleep"
Schlegel, Friedrich, 2599
"Schloimele" (Singer), 2163
Schorer, Mark, 2754
"Schreuderspitze, The" (Helprin), 1168
Schulz, Bruno, 2106-2112; Cinnamon Shops, 2108; "Father's Last Escape," 2110;
"Night of the Great Season, The," 2109; "Pan," 2108; Sanatorium Under the Sign of the
Hourglass
, 2110
Schwartz, Delmore, 2112-2117; "America! America!," 2115; "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities," 2113
Schwartz, Lynne Sharon, 2117-2120; Acquainted with the Night, and Other Stories,
2118; "Age of Analysis, The," 2118; "Last Frontier, The," 2119; Melting Pot and Other
Subversive Stories, The
, 2119; "Middle Classes, The," 2118; "So You're Going to Have a
New Body," 2119; "What I Did for Love," 2118-2119
Science ficion, 2632-2642
Science fiction; avant-garde, 2640; contemporary, 2640; eighteenth century, 2632;
pulp, 2634. See also "Category Index"
Scott, Duncan Campbell; In the Village of Viger, 2901
Scott, Sir Walter, 2120-2125; "Highland Widow, The," 2122; "Two Drovers, The," 2123;
"Wandering Willie's Tale," 2122, 2745
"Scoundrel, The" (Nabokov), 1741
"Scream, The" (Oates), 1776
"Screamers, The" (Baraka), 167
"Sculptor's Funeral, The" (Cather), 486
"Sealed Angel, The" (Leskov), 1491
Searching for Survivors (Banks), 162
"Seasons of Mists" (Collier), 609
"Sebastopol in August" (Tolstoy), 2329
"Sebastopol in December" (Tolstoy), 2329
"Sebastopol in May" (Tolstoy), 2329
Sebastopol sketches (Tolstoy), 2329
Second Birth (Pasternak), 1891
Second Chance (Auchincloss), 121
"Second Tree from the Corner, The" (White), 2507
"Second Variety" (Dick), 723
"Secret Garden, The" (Chesterton), 559
"Secret Integration, The" (Pynchon), 2008
"Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The" (Thurber), 2314
"Secret of Father Brown, The" (Chesterton), 558
"Secret Room, The" (Robbe-Grillet), 2046-2047
"Secret Sharer, The" (Conrad), 626, 2799
"Secreto, Lo." See "Unknown, The"
Secrets (Hale), 1099
"Secrets" (McLaverty), 2926
Seize the Day (Bellow), 2812
"Seizing Control" (Robison), 2056
Seken munezan' y. See Worldly Mental Calculations
Seldes, Gilbert, 2791
"Selling Out" (Apple), 87
"Seltsame stadt." See "Strange City, A"
Sembène, Ousmane; "False Prophet, The," 2850; "Promised Land, The," 2850; Tribal
Scars
, 2850
Sembène, Ousmane; "Tribal Scars," 2850
"Semejante a la noche." See "Like the Night"
Semeynoye schast'ye. See Family Happiness
"Senility" (Lavin), 1446
Senior, Olive, 2946
"Señora, Una." See "Lady, A"
"Sense of Humour" (Pritchett), 1971
"Sense of the Meeting, The" (Conroy), 629-630
"Sentence" (Barthelme, Donald), 188
"Sententious" (Shalamov), 2128
"Sentimental Education" (Brodkey), 356
"Sentinel, The" (Clarke), 592
"Sentry, The" (Leskov), 1492
"Separating" (Updike), 2380
September Song (Humphrey), 1247
"Sequel, The" (Hall), 1103
"Ser Cepparelo" (Boccaccio), 269
"Seraph and the Zambesi, The" (Spark), 2198
"Sergeant Prishibeev" (Chekhov), 543
Sethi, Robbie Clipper, 2972
Seton, Ernest Thompson, 2900
Setsuwa bungaku, 2929
"Sette messaggeri, I." See "Seven Messengers"
"Sette piani." See "Seven Floors"
Setting, 3066
"Setting the World to Rights" (Oz), 1863
"Settled on the Cranberry Coast" (Byers), 391, 2839
"Sevastopol v dekabre." See "Sebastopol in December"
"Sevastopol v mae." See "Sebastopol in May"
Sevastopolskiye rasskazy. See Sebastopol
"Seven Floors" (Buzzati), 383
Seven Men (Beerbohm), 226
"Seven Messengers" (Buzzati), 383
Seventeenth century, 2708, 2718-2720, 2722, 2724
"Seventh Street Philosopher, The" (Mori, Tashio), 2878
"Seymour: An Introduction" (Salinger), 2082
Shadbolt, Maurice, 2606
"Shades of Spring, The" (Lawrence), 1452
"Shadow, The" (Andersen), 72
"Shadow Figure, The" (Endō}), 844
"Shadow in the Rose Garden, The" (Lawrence), 1452
"Shadow of the Goat, The" (Carr), 466
Shah, Indries, 2754
Shahnamah (Firdusi), 2664
Shalamov, Varlam, 2126-2130; "Epitaph, An," 2129; "Esperanto," 2128; "Life of Engineer
Kipreev, The," 2128; "My First Tooth," 2129; "Sententious," 2128
"Shame Dance, The" (Steele, Wilbur Daniel), 2218
"Shape of Light, A" (Goyen), 1062
"Shares: A Novel in Ten Pieces" (Stern), 2243
Shares and Other Fictions (Stern), 2243
"Shattered Like a Glass Goblin" (Ellison, Harlan), 832
Shaw, Irwin, 2131-2135; "Eighty-Yard Run, The," 2132; "Girls in Their Summer
Dresses, The," 2133; "Sailor off the Bremen," 2131; "Tip on a Dead Jockey," 2133
"Shawl, The" (Ozick), 1868, 2836
"She" (Woiwode), 2541
"She Makes Swell Doughnuts" (Mori, Tashio), 2878
"She-Wolf, The" (Verga), 2395
"Shearing the Wolf, The" (Hemingway), 1186
Shelley, Mary, 2756
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 2761
"Shepherd" (Williams, Joy), 2521
"Sheriff's Children, The" (Chesnutt), 2858
Shiel, M. P., 2647
Shiga Naoya, 2932; "At Kinosaki," 2933
"Shigadera Shfnin no Koi." See "Priest of Shiga Temple and His Love, The"
"Shiloh" (Mason), 1640, 2833
Shiloh and Other Stories (Mason), 1640
"Shinel." See "Overcoat, The"
"Ship Fever" (Barrett), 174
"Ship Island" (Spencer), 2205
"Shipmates Down Under" (Byers), 392
"Shisei." See "Tattooer, The"
Shishōsetsu, 3067
Shi-shōsetsu. See I-novel
"Shooting-Match, The" (Longstreet), 1529
"Shootout at Gentry's Junction" (Coover), 635
"Shopgirls" (Barthelme, Frederick), 191
"Shore, The" (Robbe-Grillet), 2046
"Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, The" (Hemingway), 1176
Short Sentimental Journey and Other Stories (Svevo), 2271
"Short-Shift Saturday" (Casey), 2890
Short story, 3067
Short Story in English, The (Canby), 2600
Short Story Theories (May), 2607
Short Story Theory at a Crossroads (Lohafer and Clarey), 2608
"Shot, The" (Pushkin), 1999
"Shower of Gold, A" (Barthelme, Donald), 184
Shu-jên, Chou. See Lu Xun
Shushu de gushi (Wang), 2447
"Si me tocaras el corazón" (Allende), 68
"Sicily Burns's Wedding" (Harris, George Washington), 2779
"Sick Call, A" (Callaghan), 420
"Sick Child, The" (Colette), 602
Sidney, Sir Philip, 2713; Arcadia, 2713
"'Sieur George" (Cable), 395, 2780
"Signalman, The" (Dickens), 2770
"Significant Moments in the Life of My Mother" (Atwood), 112
Signified, 3067
Signifier, 3067
"Signing, The" (Dixon), 750
Signor Formica (Hoffmann), 1220
"Signora Frola and Her Son-in-Law, Signor Ponza" (Pirandello), 1930
"Signora Frola e il signor Ponza, suo genero, La." See "Signora Frola and
Her Son-in-Law, Signor Ponza"
"Signs and Symbols" (Nabokov), 1743, 2821
Silas Ermineskin stories (Kinsella), 1385
"Silence" (Borowski), 298
"Silence Dogood Essays" (Franklin), 2730
Silence of the Llano, The (Anaya), 2954
"Silent Men, The" (Camus, Albert), 432
"Silent Passengers" (Woiwode), 2542
Silent Passengers (Woiwode), 2542
"Silent Snow, Secret Snow" (Aiken), 32
Silent Spring (Masumoto), 2880
Silko, Leslie Marmon, 2135-2142, 2960; Ceremony, 2960; "Lullaby," 2137;
"Storyteller," 2138; Storyteller, 2969; Yellow Woman, 2139
Sillitoe, Alan, 2142-2147; "Good Women, The," 2145; "Loneliness of the Long-Distance
Runner, The," 2144; "On Saturday Afternoon," 2144; "Pit Strike," 2145; "Uncle Ernest," 2143
"Silver Dish, A" (Bellow), 237
Silverberg, Robert, 2640
"Simetrías." See "Symmetries"
Simile, 3067
Simms, William Gilmore, 2147-2153; "Grayling," 2150; "How Sharp Snaffles Got
His Capital and His Wife," 2148; "Snake of the Cabin, The," 2150
"Simple Heart, A" (Flaubert), 873, 2782
"Simple Susan" (Edgeworth), 809
Simpson, Mona, 2153-2156; "Approximations," 2155; "Day He Left, The," 2155;
"Lawns," 2155; "Victory Mills," 2156; "What My Mother Knew," 2154
"Sin of Jesus, The" (Babel), 133
Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 2157-2165, 2817; "Gentleman from Cracow, The," 2818;
"Gimpel the Fool," 2161, 2818; "Grandfather and Grandson," 2162; "Manuscript, The," 2162;
"Schloimele," 2163; "Smuggler, The," 2163; "Spinoza of Market Street, The," 2161;
"Taibele and Her Demon," 2160; "Two Corpses Go Dancing," 2160; "Zeitl and
Rickel," 2161
"Singers, The" (Turgenev), 2355
"Singing Bone, The" (Grimm), 1090
"Singular Event, A" (Machado de Assis), 1570
"Singular occurrência." See "Singular Event, A"
"Sins of the Third Age" (Gordimer), 1044
Sinuhe, 2657
Sinyavsky, Andrei, 2165-2171; "At the Circus," 2167; "Icicle, The," 2168;
Little Jinx, 2169; "Pkhentz," 2169; "Tenants," 2167; "You and I," 2168
Sister Carrie (Dreiser), 784
"Six Feet of the Country" (Gordimer), 1041
"Six Soldiers of Fortune" (Grimm), 1087
Six Stories Written in the First Person Singular (Maugham), 1649
Sixteenth century, 2705, 2708, 2710, 2713, 2715-2716, 2722, 2724
Sixty-three: Dream Palace (Purdy), 1995
Skallagrimsson, Egill, 2671
"Skandál a žurnalistika." See "Scandal and the Press, A"
"Skater, The" (Williams, Joy), 2522
"Skating in the Dark" (Kaplan), 1338
Skating in the Dark (Kaplan), 1338
Skaz, 3067
"Skazka pro babu." See "Tale of a Woman, The"
"Skeleton, The" (Pritchett), 1973
Sketch, 2737-2739, 2744, 3067. See also "Category Index"
Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., The (Irving), 2644
Sketches by Boz (Dickens), 2745
"Sketches from Nature" (Irving), 1269
"Skibsdrængens fortælling." See "Sailor-Boy's Tale, The"
"Skinless" (Bender), 241
Skord, Virginia; Tales of Tears and Laughter, 2930
"Skripka Rotshil'da." See "Rothschild's Fiddle"
"Skuchnaia istoriia." See "Boring Story, A"
"Sky Is Gray, The" (Gaines), 932
Slap in the Face Et Cetera, A (Walser), 2441
Slavin, Julia, 2171-2174; "Babyproofing," 2172; "Dentophilia," 2173;
"Lives of the Invertebrates," 2173; "Swallowed Whole," 2172
"Sleep" (Hildesheimer), 1203
"Sleep It Off, Lady" (Rhys), 2033
Sleep It Off, Lady (Rhys), 2033
"Sleep Tight" (Purdy), 1993
"Sleeping Beauty" (Grimm), 1089
Sleepwalker in a Fog (Tolstaya), 2323
"Sleepy" (Chekhov), 2795
"Slim" (Mars-Jones), 1631
"Slippage" (Updike), 2382
Slow Learner (Pynchon), 2009
"Slow Sculpture" (Sturgeon), 2267
Slowly Slowly in the Wind (Highsmith), 1196
"Sluchainost." See "Matter of Chance, A"
"Small Rain, The" (Pynchon), 2005
"Small Spade, A" (Mars-Jones), 1632
"Small Town" (Dick), 722
"Small Town Affair" (Arreola), 93
"Small World" (Davies, Peter Ho), 693
"Small, Good Thing, A" (Carver), 2831
"Smert' Dolgushova." See "Death of Dolgushov, The"
Smert' Ivana Il'icha. See Death of Ivan Ilyich, The
Směšne lásky. See Laughable Loves
Smiley, Jane, 2174-2181; Age of Grief, The, 2176; "Dynamite," 2177; Good
Will
, 2179; "Jeffrey, Believe Me," 2177; "Long Distance," 2177; Ordinary
Love
, 2178; "Pleasure of Her Company, The," 2177
Smith, Clark Ashton, 2651
Smith, Lee, 2182-2187; "All the Days of Our Lives," 2183; "Between the Lines,"
2183; "Bob, A Dog," 2184; "Bubba Stories, The," 2185; Cakewalk, 2183;
"Dear Phil Donahue," 2183; "Gulfport," 2184; "Happy Memories Club," 2186;
"Heat Lightning," 2184; "Life on the Moon," 2185; "Live Bottomless," 2185; "Me and My Baby
View the Eclipse," 2185; Me and My Baby View the Eclipse, 2184; News of the Spirit, 2185;
"Saint Paul," 2184; "Southern Cross," 2186
"Smuggler, The" (Singer), 2163
Snail-Watcher and Other Stories, The (Highsmith), 1194
"Snake, The" (Steinbeck), 2809
"Snake of the Cabin, The" (Simms), 2150
"Snapshots" (Viramontes), 2404
"Snow" (Beattie), 214
Snow Country (Kawabata), 2933
"Snow Queen, The" (Andersen), 71
"Snow White" (Grimm), 1090
"Snowed In" (Broyard), 365
"Snows of Kilimanjaro, The" (Hemingway), 1176, 2806
"So." See "Salt"
"So on He Fares" (Moore, George), 1697, 2916
"So Softly Smiling" (Himes), 1207
"So ward abend und morgen." See "And There Was the Evening and the Morning"
"So You're Going to Have a New Body" (Schwartz, Lynne Sharon), 2119
"Sociable at Dudleys, A" (Garland), 965
"Soldier's Embrace, A" (Gordimer), 1043
"Soldier's Home" (Hemingway), 1175
"Sole e ombra." See "Sunlight and Shadow"
"Solid Objects" (Woolf), 2557
"Solo Song: For Doc, A" (McPherson), 1583
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 2187-2192; "For the Good of the Cause," 2190;
"Right Hand, The," 2190; "Incident at Krechetovka Station," 2189; "Matryona's House," 2190
Some Chinese Ghosts (Hearn), 1157
"Some Grist for Mervyn's Mill" (Richler), 2038
"Some Like Them Cold" (Lardner), 1436
"Some of These Days" (Purdy), 1994
"Something Else" (Zhang), 2582-2583
"Something Nice" (Gaitskill), 937
Something Out There (Gordimer), 1043
Something Short and Sweet (Bates), 200
"Something Terrible, Something Lovely" (Sansom), 2086
Something Terrible, Something Lovely 2 (Sansom), 2086
"Something That Happened" (Phillips), 1925
"Somewhere Doors, The" (Chappell), 517
"Son, The" (Bunin), 374
"Son, The" (Quiroga), 2020
"Son smeshnogo cheloveha." See "Dream of a Ridiculous Man, The"
"Song of the Falcon, The" (Gorky), 1057
"Song of the Republic, A" (Lawson), 2889
Song of the Turtle (Allen), 2962
"Song of Triumphant Love, The" (Turgenev), 2357
"Songs of Reba Love Jackson, The" (Wideman), 2512
"Sonny's Blues" (Baldwin), 138
Sontag, Susan, 2193-2196; "Baby," 2195; "Debriefing," 2194; "Dummy, The," 2195;
"Project for a Trip to China," 2194
"Sophistication" (Anderson), 80
"Sordid Tale" (Gilchrist), 996
"Sorg-agre." See "Sorrow-Acre"
"Sorrow-Acre" (Dinesen), 740, 2817
Sorrows of Young Werther, The (Goethe), 1018
"Sorry Fugu" (Boyle, T. C.), 328
Soto, Pedro Juan, 2957; Spiks, 2957
Soul Clap Hands and Sing (Marshall), 1635
"Soul of the Great Bell, The" (Hearn), 1157
"Soul of Wood" (Lind), 1514
"Sound of Talking" (Purdy), 1996
"Source" (Walker), 2434
"South, The" (Borges), 291
South (Sansom), 2087
South Asia, 2972-2977
South Asian American culture, 2884
"Southern Cross" (Smith), 2186
"Southern Landscape, A" (Spencer), 2204
Southern Renaissance, 1047
Southern United States, 2806. See also "Category Index"
Southwestern United States, 2744. See also "Category Index"
"Sow That Eats Her Farrow, The" (Kiš), 1399
Sowdone of Babylone, The, 2693
Spain, 2732. See also "Geographical Index"
Spanish culture, 2706. See also "Category Index"
Spark, Muriel, 2196-2202; "Bang-Bang You're Dead," 2199; "Curtain Blown by the
Breeze, A," 2198; "First Year of My Life, The," 2199; "Go-Away Bird, The" , 2199;
Open to the Public, 2200; "Pawnbroker's Wife, The," 2198; "Portobello Road, The," 2199;
"Seraph and the Zambesi, The," 2198
"Sparrows" (Lessing), 1499
"Specialty of the House, The" (Ellin), 2621
Spectator, The (Addison and Steele), 14, 18, 2213-2214, 2216, 2726, 2737-2738
"Spectre Bridegroom, The" (Irving), 1270
"Speech of Polly Baker" (Franklin), 905
Spencer, Elizabeth, 2202-2208; "Bufords, The," 2205; "First Dark," 2204;
"Go South in the Winter," 2206; "Jean-Pierre," 2206; "Knights and Dragons," 2205; "Legacy, The," 2206;
"Little Brown Girl, The," 2204; "Mr. McMillan," 2206; On the Gulf, 2206;
"Ship Island," 2205; "Southern Landscape, A," 2204
"Spi skorei." See "Get on with the Sleeping"
"Spider's Thread, The" (Akutagawa), 39
"Spies in the Herb House, The" (Betts), 255
Spiks (Soto), 2957
"Spindleberries" (Galsworthy), 948
"Spinoza of Market Street, The" (Singer), 2161
"Spinster's Tale, A" (Taylor, Peter), 2296
Splendid Lives (Gilliatt), 1000
"Sportsman" (Hempel), 1182
Sportsman's Sketches, A (Twain), 2353
"Spouse Night" (Leavitt), 1467
"Spring in Fialta" (Nabokov), 1742
"Spring Sowing" (O'Flaherty), 2921
"Spunk" (Hurston), 1252, 2862
Spy and the Thief, The (Hoch), 1212
"Squeaker's Mate" (Baynton), 2889
"Squire's Daughter, The" (Pushkin), 2001
"Sredni Vashtar" (Saki), 2074
Stafford, Jean, 2208-2212; "Bleeding Heart, The," 2210; Collected Stories
of Jean Stafford, The
, 2209; "Echo and the Nemesis, The," 2210;
"Healthiest Girl in Town, The," 2211; "Liberator, The," 2211; "Maggie Meriwether's
Rich Experience," 2210
"Star, The" (Clarke), 593
"Star Baby" (Gates), 981
"Star Food" (Canin), 435
"Stars of the New Curfew" (Okri), 1841
Stars of the New Curfew (Okri), 1841
"Starukha Izergil." See "Old Woman Izergil"
"State Champions" (Mason), 1642
"State Fair" (Keillor), 1352
"Staying in Bed" (Gilliatt), 1000
Stead, Christina, 2754
"Steady Going Up" (Angelou), 83
"Steel Cat, The" (Collier), 609
Steele, Richard, 2213-2217; "Biter, The," 2727; Christian Hero, The,"
2216; Guardian, The, 2214-2216; "Inkle and Yarico," 2215; "Matchmaker, The," 2727;
Spectator, The, 14, 2213-2214, 2216, 2726, 2737-2738; Tatler, The,
14, 18, 2213-2214, 2216, 2737-2738
Steele, Wilbur Daniel, 2217-2220; "How Beautiful with Shoes," 2219; "Man Who
Saw Through Heaven, The," 2219; "Shame Dance, The," 2218; "When Hell Froze," 2219
Stegner, Wallace, 2220-2224; "Beyond the Glass Mountain," 2222; City of the
Living and Other Stories, The
, 2222; "Field Guide to the Western Birds," 2222;
"Maiden in a Tower," 2222; "Two Rivers," 2222; Women on the Wall, The, 2221-2222
Stein, Gertrude, 2225-2233; Alphabets and Birthdays, 2231; "As Fine as
Melanctha," 2229; "Brim Beauvais," 2230; Tender Buttons, 2228
Steinbeck, John, 2233-2238; "Chrysanthemums, The, 2236; "Flight," 2237;
"Junius Maltby," 2236; "Legend of Tularecito, The," 2236; Long Valley, The, 2236;
Pastures of Heaven, The, 2235; "Snake, The," 2809; "White Quail, The," 2236
Steinhöwel, Heinrich, 2628
"Stephanie, Stephen, Steph, Steve" (Gilliatt), 1002
Stephens, James, 2919; "Triangle, The," 2919
"Stepnoi Korol' Lir." See "King Lear of the Steppes"
"Steppe, The" (Chekhov), 544
Stern, Richard G., 2239-2244; "Arrangements at the Gulf," 2241; "Aurelia Frequenzia
Reveals the Heart and Mind of the Man of Destiny," 2242; "Counterfactual Proposal, A,"
2241; "Degradation of Tenderness, The," 2243; "Double Charley," 2241; "Dying," 2242;
"Good Morrow, Swine," 2240; "In a Word, Trowbridge," 2243; "Pourriture Noble, La," 2242;
"Recital for the Pope, A," 2242; "Shares: A Novel in Ten Pieces," 2243; Shares and
Other Fictions
, 2243; Understanding Fiction, 2240; "Veni, Vidi . . . Wendt," 2241;
"Wissler Remembers," 2242
Stevenson, Lionel, 2796
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 2245-2250, 2798; "Beach of Falesá, The," 2248;
"Lodging for the Night, A," 2246, 2798; "Markheim," 2247
"Stick of Green Candy, A" (Bowles, Jane), 309
Still Life with Pipe (Donoso), 759
"Still Moment, A" (Welty), 2486
"Stinger, The" (Leskov), 1490
Stockton, Frank R., 2250-2254; "His Wife's Deceased Sister," 2253;
"Magic Egg, The," 2251
Stone, Robert, 2254-2257; "Absence of Mercy," 2256; "Bear and His Daughter," 2257;
Bear and His Daughter, 2255; "Helping," 2256; "Miserere," 2255; "Under the Pitons," 2256
"Stone Boy, The" (Berriault), 250
Stories of Eva Luna, The (Allende), 67
Stories of Ray Bradbury, The (Bradbury), 338
Stories of Red Hanrahan (Yeats), 2569
Stories of the Sioux (Eastman), 2963
"Storm, The" (Chopin), 565
"Storms" (Lessing), 1499
"Story, The" (Pasternak), 1890
"Story About the Most Important Thing, A" (Zamyatin), 2576
"Story by Maupassant, A" (O'Connor, Frank), 1806
"Story of Serapion, The" (Hoffmann), 1218
"Story in a Mirror" (Aichinger), 29
Story line, 3067
"Story of a Contraoctave, The" (Pasternak), 1888
"Story of a Panic, The" (Forster), 887
"Story of an Hour, The" (Chopin), 563
Story of Burnt Njal, The, 2675
"Story of My Dovecote, The" (Babel), 129
"Story of Stories, A" (Dreiser), 785
"Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton, The" (Dickens), 729
"Storyteller" (Silko), 2138
Storyteller (Silko), 2969
Story-Teller's Holiday, A (Moore, George), 1698
"Stove, The" (Lind), 1515
Stove, The (Lind), 1515
"Strange City, A" (Walser), 2440
"Strange Fire" (Oz), 1862
"Strange Moonlight" (Aiken), 34
Strange Pilgrims (García Márquez), 954
"Stranger, Bear Word to the Spartans We . . ." (Böll), 275
Stray Leaves from Strange Literature (Hearn), 1158
Stream of consciousness, 3067
Strength of Gideon and Other Stories, The (Dunbar), 795
"Strength of God, The" (Anderson), 79
"Strider" (Tolstoy), 2330
Stroud, Theodore Albert, 2607
Structuralism, 3067
"Struggle for Life, A" (Aldrich), 48
Stuart, Jesse, 2258-2263; "Dawn of Remembered Spring," 2259; "Moonshine War, The,"
2261; "My Father Is an Educated Man," 2262; Save Every Lamb, 2262;
"Sunday Afternoon Hanging," 2261; "Sylvania Is Dead," 2260
"Stub-Book, The" (Alarcón), 45
Study of Prose Fiction, A (Perry), 2758
Sturgeon, Theodore, 2264-2268, 2637; "Man Who Lost the Sea, The," 2267;
"Microcosmic God," 2265; "Slow Sculpture," 2267; "World Well Lost, The," 2266
Sturluson, Snorri, 2672; Prose Edda, 2670, 2672
Style, 3067
Suárez, Mario, 2952
"Subject to Diary" (Weldon), 2474
Subjective, 3067
"Sublimating" (Updike), 2380
Success Stories (Banks), 164
Suchbild (Meckel), 1663
Suckow, Ruth, 2755
"Sugar" (Byatt), 388
"Sugawn Chair, The" (O'Faoláin), 1819
Sui Sin Far, 2873; "Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian," 2874; Mrs.
Spring Fragrance
, 2873-2874
"Suicides" (Pavese), 1895
"Suicidio al parco" (Buzzati), 384
"Suigetsu." See "Moon on the Water, The"
"Beautiful Suit, The" (Wells), 2479
Sullivan, John Walter, 2607
"Summer Lightning" (Mars-Jones), 1632
"Summer My Grandmother Was Supposed to Die, The" (Richler), 2037
"Summer Night" (Bowen), 301
"Summer of the Beautiful White Horse, The" (Saroyan), 2093
"Summer People" (Kaplan), 1336
"Summer Shore" (Grau), 1067
"Summer Storm" (Parvese), 1895
"Summer Storms" (Woiwode), 2542
"Summer Tidings" (Purdy), 1994
"Summer Tragedy, A" (Bontemps), 283
"Sunday Afternoon Hanging" (Sturgeon), 2261
"Sunday at the Mintons'" (Plath), 1934
"Sunday Painter, The" (Cassill), 483
"Sunlight and Shadow" (Pirandello), 1929
Supernatural, 2643-2653, 2745, 2797, 2908, 2943. See also "Category Index"
"Supper, The" (Borowski), 298
Supplement, 3067
Supplement to Bougainville's Voyage (Diderot), 735
"Supremacy of the Hunza, The" (Greenberg), 1070
"Suprugi Orlovy." See "Orlov Married Couple"
"Sur, El." See "South, The"
"Surface Tension" (Blish), 2638
"Surfiction" (Wideman), 2513
Surrealism, 2943. See also "Category Index"
Surrounded, The (McNickle), 2964
"Survivor in Salvador, A" (Tuohy), 2348
Sut Lovingood (Harris, George Washington), 2779
Svevo, Italo, 2269-2272; Further Confessions of Zeno, 2271;
"Generous Wine," 2271; Hoax, The, 2270; Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girl and
Other Stories, The
, 2270; Short Sentimental Journey and Other Stories, 2271
"Svidanie s ptitsei." See "Date with a Bird"
"Swallowed Whole" (Slavin), 2172
"Swans on an Autumn River" (Warner), 2452
"Sweat" (Hurston), 1253
"Sweating Statue, The" (Hoch), 1214
"Sweethearts" (Ford), 883
Swift, Graham, 2272-2275, 2841; "Hoffmeier's Antelope," 2273; "Learning to
Swim," 2272; Learning to Swim and Other Stories, 2841; "Tunnel, The," 2273;
"Watch, The," 2274
"Swimmer, The" (Cheever), 538, 2827
"Switchman, The" (Arreola), 92
"Sword of Welleran, The" (Dunsany), 799
"Sylvania Is Dead" (Sturgeon), 2260
"Sylvie" (Nerval), 1757
Symbolism, 2796, 2799, 3067. See also "Category Index"
"Symmetries" (Valenzuela), 2388
Symons, Arthur; "Christian Trevalga," 2797
"Symposium" (Kundera), 1416
Synesthesia, 3067
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"Tables of the Law, The" (Yeats), 2569
Tabloid Dreams (Butler), 379
Tadjo, Véronique; "Magician and the Girl, The," 2851
Tahta al-mizalla (Mahfouz), 1589
"Taibele and Her Demon" (Singer), 2160
"Taking Care" (Williams, Joy), 2521
"Taking the Wen Away" (Dazai), 702
Tale, 2736, 2929, 3068. See also "Category Index"
"Tale of a Woman, The" (Babel), 133
"Tale of Balin, The" (Malory), 1604
"Tale of Dragons and Dreamers, The" (Delany), 712
Tale of Genji, The (Murasaki), 2667, 2929
"Tale of Gorgik, The" (Delany), 712
"Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich, The" (Gogol), 1026
"Tale of King Arthur, The" (Malory), 1603
"Tale of Menorah, The" (Agnon), 27
"Tale of Old Venn, The" (Delany), 712
"Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, The," 2928
"Tale of the Queen of the Morning and Soliman the Prince of the Genii, The" (Nerval), 1758
"Tale of the Seven Beggars, The" (Nahman), 1748
"Tale of the Small Sarg, The" (Delany), 711
Tales (Baraka), 166
Tales from Bective Bridge (Lavin), 2923
Tales of a Dying Race (Grace), 2895
Tales of Fashionable Life (Edgeworth), 813
Tales of Manhattan (Auchincloss), 120
Tales of Moonlight and Rain (Ueda), 2931
Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophe (Highsmith), 1198
Tales of Nevèrÿon (Delany), 712
Tales of Odessa (Babel), 130
Tales of Pirx the Pilot (Lem), 1485
"Tales of Queen Louisa" (Gardner), 960
Tales of Samurai Honor (Ihara Saikaku), 1265
Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (Bierce), 2649
Tales of Tears and Laughter (Skord), 2930
Tales of Times Now Past, 2929
"Talk Talked Between Worms, The" (Abbott), 2
"Talk to the Music" (Bontemps), 284
"Talkin' 'Bout Sonny" (Bambara), 2869
Tallent, Elizabeth, 2276-2279; "Honey," 2278; "Ice," 2277; "No One's a Mystery,"
2277; "Prowler," 2276
Tall-tale, 3068
"Talpa" (Rulfo), 2066
"Tamurlane" (Mukherjee), 1724
"Tan" (Sayles), 2104
Tan, Amy, 2279-2282; "Best Quality," 2282; "Joy Luck Club, The," 2281; Joy
Luck Club, The
, 2281; "Pair of Tickets, A," 2282; "Rules of the Game," 2281; "Two Kinds," 2281
Tan, Joel, 2883
"Tang" (Himes), 1207
Tanizaki, Jun'ichirō, 2283-2287, 2933; "Aguri," 2284; "Ashikari," 2285;
"Blind Man's Tale, A," 2285; "Bridge of Dreams, The," 2285, 2933; Diary of a Mad
Old Man
, 2286; "Portrait of Shunkin, A," 2285; "Tattooer, The," 2284;
"Terror," 2284; "Thief, The," 2284
Tanka poems, 2928
Tantalus, 2660
"Tapiama" (Bowles, Paul), 314
"Taras Bulba" (Gogol), 1026
Targan, Barry, 2288-2291; "Dominion," 2289; "Falling Free," 2289; "Harry Belten
and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto," 2288
Tatius; Leucippe and Clitophon, 2666
Tatler, The (Addison and Steele), 14, 16, 18, 2213-2214, 2216, 2737-2738
Tatler 163 (Addison), 16
"Tatlin!" (Davenport), 684
"Tattooer, The" (Tanizaki), 2284
Taylor, Elizabeth, 2291-2294, 2606; "Blush, The," 2293; "Dedicated Man, A," 2292;
"First Death of Her Life, The," 2292; "Red-Letter Day, A," 2292
Taylor, Peter, 2294-2299; "Dean of Men," 2296; "Miss Leonora When Last Seen," 2297;
"Old Forest, The," 2298; "Spinster's Tale, A," 2296; "What You Hear from 'Em?," 2297;
"Wife of Nashville, A," 2297
T. C. Boyle Stories (Boyle, T. C.), 329
Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness (Ōe), 1814
"Teacher, The" (Anderson), 79
Technique, 3068
"Teenage Wasteland" (Tyler, Anne), 2368
"Telephone Call, A" (Parker), 1884
"Tell Me a Riddle" (Olsen), 1846
"Tell Me Yes or No" (Munro), 1734
"Tell-Tale Heart, The" (Poe), 2767
"Tell Them Not to Kill Me!" (Rulfo), 2066
"Temporary Matter, A" (Gates), 1425
"Temporate d'estate." See "Summer Storm"
"Temptation of St. Ivo, The" (Gardner), 959
"Ten Pecan Pies" (Major), 1593
"Tenant, The" (Mukherjee), 1727
"Tenants" (Sinyavsky), 2167
Tender Buttons (Stein), 2228
"Tender Shoot, The" (Colette), 600
"Tendrils of the Vine, The" (Colette), 600
"Tendron, Le." See "Tender Shoot, The"
"Tennessee's Partner" (Harte), 2777
"Term Paper Artist, The" (Leavitt), 1467
"Terminal Beach, The" (Ballard), 144
"Terra d'esilio." See "Land of Exile"
"Terrapin, The" (Highsmith), 1195
"Terrific Mother" (Moore, Lorrie), 1701
"Territory" (Leavitt), 1465, 2834
"Terror" (Tanizaki), 2284
"Test, The" (Lem), 1485
"Testimony of Pilot" (Hannah), 2838
Tevye stories (Aleichem), 52
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 2300-2305; "Confessions of Fitz-Boodle," 2303;
"Dimond Cut Dimond," 2302; "Foring Parts," 2302; "Miss Shum's Husband," 2301;
"Mr. and Mrs. Frank Berry," 2303
"Thank You M'am" (Hughes), 1240
Tharoor, Shashi, 2972
"That Evening Sun" (Faulkner), 2805
Tháttr, 2669-2670, 2672, 2677-2679
"The Fat Man in History" (Carey) , 453
"Theater" (Toomer), 2337
Theatre of Gods Judgements, The (Beard), 2719
"Theft" (Porter), 1952
"Theft of the General's Trash, The" (Hoch), 1213
Thematics, 3068
Theme, 3068
Theory of Literature (Wellek and Warren), 2752
Theory of short fiction, 2599, 2612
Theory of the Novel, The (Lukács), 2753
"There Is No End" (Kavan), 1341
"They" (Kipling), 1394
They Sleep Without Dreaming (Gilliatt), 1001
"Thick as Thieves" (Perabo), 1899
"Thief, The" (Tanizaki), 2284
"Thin Edge of Happiness, The" (Guimarães Rosa), 1093
"Things in Their Season" (Greenberg), 1072
"Things They Carried, The" (O'Brien, Tim), 1792
Things They Carried, The (O'Brien, Tim), 1792
"Think No Evil" (Collier), 608
"Third and Final Continent, The" (Gates), 1426
"Third Circle, The" (Norris), 1767
"Third Expedition, The" (Bradbury), 336
"This Is Lagos" (Nwapa), 2853
"This Is Not a Story" (Diderot), 734
"This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen" (Borowski), 297
"Thistledown" (Aiken), 35
Thomas, Dylan, 2306-2312; "Fight, The," 2309; "Orchards, The," 2310;
"Patricia, Edith and Arnold," 2308; "Peaches, The," 2307; Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Dog
, 2307; "Prospect of the Sea, A," 2309; "Tree, The," 2310; "Visitor, The," 2310
Thomas, Pin, 2958
Thorgilsson, Ari; Book of Settlements, 2671; Book of the Icelanders, 2671
"Thorofare" (Minot), 1688
"Those Who Don't" (Cisneros), 581
"Three Bears Cottage" (Collier), 607
"Three Dogs of Siena" (Sansom), 2087
"Three Gifts, The" (Peretz), 1909
"Three Hermits, The" (Barthelme, Donald), 187
Three Impostors, The (Machen), 1575
Three Loves trilogy. See Brocade Valley, Love in a Small Town,
and Love on a Barren Mountain
"Three Men" (Gaines), 933
"Three Players of a Summer Game" (Williams, Tennessee), 2526
Three Problems for Solar Pons (Derleth), 717
"Three Sisters, The" (Cisneros), 582
"Three Tasks, The" (Carleton), 456
"Three-Two Pitch" (Weidman), 2463
"Thrill of the Grass, The" (Kinsella), 1384
"Thrilling Life, A" (Minot), 1689
"Through the Dark Glass to Reality" (Hale), 1100
Thurber, James, 2312-2317; "Black Magic of Barney Haller, The," 2314;
"Moth and the Star, The," 2315; "Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The," 2314; White Deer, The, 2315
"Tickets, Please" (Lawrence), 2813
Tieck, Ludwig, 2599, 2731; Fair Eckbert, 2731
"Tiger in the Grass, The" (Doerr), 754
"Tiger of Zhaochang, The" (Pu), 1986
Tilghman, Christopher, 2317-2320, 2839; "Hole in the Day," 2318; "In a Father's
Place," 2318; "Loose Reins," 2318, 2839; "On the Rivershore," 2318; "Room for Mistakes," 2318;
"Way People Run, The," 2319, 2839
"Till September Petronella" (Rhys), 2032
Time and a Place, A (Humphrey), 1246
"Time Considered as a Helix of Semiprecious Stones" (Delany), 711
"Time of Learning, A" (West), 2497
"Time the Tiger" (Lewis), 1505
"Tiny, Smiling Daddy" (Gaitskill), 937
"Tip on a Dead Jockey" (Shaw), 2133
"Tipo medio." See "Middling Type, A"
"Titanic Victim Speaks Through Waterbed" (Butler), 379
"Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" (Borges), 2823
"To Build a Fire" (London), 1524
"To Da-duh, in Memoriam" (Marshall), 1637
"To Hell with Dying" (Walker), 2432
"To See You Again" (Adams), 11
"Today Is a Good Day to Die" (Bell), 231
"Today Will Be a Quiet Day" (Hempel), 1181
"Today's Agenda" (Zhang), 2582
"Toddler-Hunting" (Kfno), 2934
"Todos los fuegos el fuego." See "All Fires the Fire"
"Tokens" (Bennett), 2863
Tokugawa era, 2930
"Tokyo Hakkei." See "Eight Views of Tokyo"
Tokyo-Montana Express, The (Brautigan), 345
Tolstaya, Tatyana, 2320-2325; "Date with a Bird," 2322; "Limpopo," 2324;
"Loves Me, Loves Me Not," 2322; "Moon Came Out, The," 2324; "Most Beloved," 2323; "On the
Golden Porch," 2321; On the Golden Porch, 2322; "Peters," 2323; Sleepwalker in a Fog, 2323
Tolstoy, Leo, 2326-2335; Death of Ivan Ilyich, The, 2331, 2794; Family
Happiness
, 2330; Kreutzer Sonata, The, 2332; "Master and Man," 2332; "Raid:
A Volunteer's Story, The," 2329; Sebastopol sketches, 2329; "Sebastopol in August," 2329;
"Sebastopol in December," 2329; "Sebastopol in May," 2329; "Strider," 2330; "Two Hussars," 2330
"Tom" (Lavin), 1446
Tomb for Boris Davidovich, A (Kiš), 1398
Tommy and Tuppence Beresford stories, 576
"Tomorrow--Fairly Cloudy" (Perelman), 1903
"Tomorrow-Tamer, The" (Laurence), 1440
Tomorrow-Tamer, The (Laurence), 1440
Tone, 3068
Tonio Kröger (Mann), 1610
Too Far from Home (Bowles, Paul), 315
Toomer, Jean, 2335-2340; "Blood-Burning Moon," 2337; "Box Seat," 2338; Cane,
2335-2339; "Esther," 2336; "Kabnis," 2338; "Theater," 2337
"Tooth, The" (Jackson), 1275
"Tosca" (Allende), 68
"Total Stranger" (Cozzens), 650
"Totara Tree, The" (Finlayson), 2895
"Totentanz" (Wilson), 2536
"Touch of Nutmeg Makes It, The" (Collier), 610
Touch of the Sun, A (Sansom), 2088
"Toupee Artist, The" (Leskov), 1492
Toynbee Convector, The (Bradbury), 338
"Toys" (Dazai), 701
"Traceleen at Dawn" (Gilchrist), 995
Track of the Cat, The (Clark), 588
Tracks (Erdrich), 2965
Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of the Ojibway Nation, The (Copway), 2962
Trailerpark (Banks), 163
Trambley, Estela Portillo; Rain of Scorpions and Other Writings, 2955
"Transaction" (Updike), 2381
"Transformation" (Dazai), 701
Transposed Heads, The (Mann), 1612
Trapné povídky. See Money and Other Stories
"Trappist Monastery, The" (Oz), 1863
"Traveler's Story of a Terribly Strange Bed, The" (Collins), 2770
"Traveling to Pridesup" (Williams, Joy), 2521
"Tree, The" (Bombal), 279
"Tree, The" (Thomas), 2310
"Tree. A Rock. A Cloud, A" (McCullers), 1558, 2809
"Tree of Night, A" (Capote), 442
"Tree to Be Desired, A" (Gilchrist), 996
Trembling of a Leaf, The (Maugham), 1646
Trent and the Last Case (Bentley), 2617
Trent Intervenes (Bentley), 2618
"Trenzas." See "Braids"
Trésor d'Arlatan, Le (Daudet), 680
Trevor, William, 2340-2347, 2924; "After Rain," 2345; After Rain, 2345;
"Autumn Sunshine," 2925; "Beyond the Pale," 2925; "Broken Homes," 2344; "Death in Jerusalem," 2925;
"Drummer Boy, The," 2343; "Evening with John Joe Dempsey, An," 2342; "Flights of Fancy," 2344;
"Lovers of Their Time," 2343; "Nice Day at School," 2342; "Office Romances," 2343;
"Paradise Lounge, The," 2344; "Piano Tuner's Wife, The," 2345
"Triangle, The" (Stephens), 2919
"Triangle at Rhodes" (Christie), 577
"Tribal Scars" (Sembène), 2850
Tribal Scars (Sembène), 2850
"Tribunal" (Čapek), 439
"Trimmed Lamp, The" (Henry), 1185
"Trip, The" (Friedman), 917
"Trip to London, The" (Davies, Rhys), 696
"Triptych I" (Bell), 230
"Triumph of Reason, The" (Gilchrist), 996
Triumphs of Gods Revenge, Against the Crying, and Execrable Sinne of Murther,
The
(Reynolds), 2719
Troilus and Criseyde (Chaucer), 522
Trope, 3068
"Trouble with Bubbles, The" (Dick), 722
"Trouble with Mr. Leopold, The" (Broyard), 365
Trout Fishing in America (Brautigan), 343
"Trout Fishing on the Bevel" (Brautigan), 344
"Trucks" (King), 1370
"True Martyr Is Me, The" (Philombe), 2849
True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal, A (Defoe), 2728
"True Story, A" (Twain), 2361
True Story of Ah Q, The (Lu), 1546
"Trust Me" (Updike), 2382
Truth (Douglas), 768
"Truth and Lies" (Price), 1967
"Trying" (Robison), 2057
Tsutsumi Chnnagon monogatari. See Riverside Counselor's Stories, The
"Tubber Derg" (Carleton), 458
Tullipan (Meckel), 1662
Tumble Home (Hempel), 1182
"T'ung-jân yü." See "Pupils of the Eyes That Talked, The"
"Tunnel" (Barnes), 171
"Tunnel, The" (Swift), 2273
Tuohy, Frank, 2347-2351; "Admiral and the Nuns, The," 2348; "Evening in Connecticut,"
2349; "Fingers in the Door," 2349; Live Bait and Other Stories, 2349;
"Rainy Season, A," 2351; "Survivor in Salvador, A," 2348
"Tupeinyi khudozhnik." See "Toupee Artist, The"
Turgenev, Ivan, 2352-2359; "Asya," 2356; "Bezhin Meadow," 2355, 2772;
"Country Doctor, The," 2771; "Diary of a Superfluous Man, The," 2355; "Ermolai and Miller's Wife," 2354;
"First Love," 2357; "Hamlet of the Shchigrovsky District," 2355; "Khor and Kalynich," 2354;
"King Lear of the Steppes," 2356; "Mumu," 2356; "Singers, The," 2355; "Song of Triumphant
Love, The," 2357; Sportsman's Sketches, A, 2353; "Two Landowners," 2354
"Turkey, The" (O'Connor, Flannery), 1797
"Turn with the Sun, A" (Knowles), 1408
"Tutti-Frutti" (Sansom), 2087
"TV People" (Murakami), 2934
Twain, Mark, 2359-2364; "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The," 2361;
"Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut, The," 2361;
"How to Tell a Story," 2778; "Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, The," 2362;
"£1,000,000 Bank-Note, The," 2362; "True Story, A," 2361
Twentieth century; and African American women writers, 2868; and African American
writers, 2865; Canada, 2901-2902; 1880-1920, 2786; 1920-1960, 2803-2825; 1960-2000, 2826-2842
"Twenty-six Men and a Girl" (Gorky), 1057
"Twenty-three, Please" (Hall), 1103
"Twisting of the Rope, The" (Yeats), 2569
"Two Corpses Go Dancing" (Singer), 2160
Two Dreams: New and Selected Stories (Lim), 2877
"Two Drovers, The" (Scott), 2123
"Two Elenas, The" (Fuentes), 926
"Two Friends from Bourbonne, The" (Diderot), 733
"Two Hussars" (Tolstoy), 2330
"Two Kinds" (Tan), 2281
"Two Landowners" (Turgenev), 2354
"Two Lovely Beasts, The" (O'Flaherty), 2922
"Two Mothers" (Unamuno y Jugo), 2373
"Two Offers, The" (Harper), 2858
Two Old Maids, The (Landolfi), 1429
"Two Old Women and a Young One" (Lessing), 1499
"Two Rivers" (Stegner), 2222
"Two Ships" (Boyle, T. C.), 327
"Two Sisters" (Aidoo), 2853
"Two Way Imagination, The" (Hale), 1100
"Ty i ya." See "You and I"
"Tyler and Brina" (Miller), 1680
Tyler, Anne, 2365-2370; "Average Waves in Unprotected Waters," 2367;
"People Who Don't Know the Answers," 2368; "Teenage Wasteland," 2368; "Your Place Is Empty," 2367
Tyler, Royall, 2929; Japanese Tales, 2929
"Typewriter, The" (Bennett), 2864
"Typhoon" (Conrad), 624
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U
"U nas, w Auschwitzu." See "Auschwitz, Our Home (A Letter)"
"Ubasute." See "Putting Granny Out to Die"
"Über das Marionettentheater." See "Marionette Theater, The"
Ueda Akinari, 2930; "Lust of the White Serpent, The," 2931; Tales of Moonlight
and Rain
, 2931
Ugetsu monogatari. See Tales of Moonlight and Rain
"Ugliest Faces" (Broyard), 365
"Ugliest House in the World, The" (Davies, Peter Ho), 692
"Ula Masonda" (Plomer), 1938
Ulibarrí, Sabine Reyes, 2954
"Ultima giornata, L'." See "Last Day, The"
"Última ilusión de Don Juan, La." See "Don Juan's Last Illusion"
"Última niebla, La." See "Final Mist, The"
"Ultimo viene il corvo." See "Crow Comes Last, The"
Unamuno y Jugo, Miguel de, 2371-2374; Abel Sánchez, 2372;
"Madness of Doctor Montarco, The," 2372; "Saint Manuel Bueno, Martyr," 2373;
"Two Mothers," 2373
"Uncle Aron" (Dovlatov), 771
"Uncle Ben's Choice" (Achebe), 6
"Uncle Ernest" (Sillitoe), 2143
"Uncle Leopold" (Dovlatov), 772
"Uncle Moustapha's Eclipse" (McKnight), 1578
Uncle Remus (Harris, Joel Chandler), 1123
"Uncle Spencer" (Huxley), 1258
"Uncle Tom's Cabin: Alternate Ending" (Baraka), 166
"Uncle Valentine" (Cather), 488
"Uncle Wellington's Wives" (Chesnutt), 553, 2859
"Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" (Salinger), 2079
Under a Glass Bell and Other Stories (Nin), 1761
Under African Skies (Larson), 2846
Under the Banyan Tree and Other Stories (Narayan), 1753
"Under the Jaguar Sun" (Calvino), 427
"Under the Lion's Paw" (Garland), 965
"Under the Pitons" (Stone), 2256
"Under the Rose" (Pynchon), 2008
Under the Shadow of Etna (Verga), 2395-2396
Understanding Fiction (Brooks and Warren), 2240, 2607
"Undertaker, The" (Pushkin), 2000
"Une Nuit de Cléopâtre." See "One of Cleopatra's Nights"
"Unearthing Suite" (Atwood), 112
"Unfinished Story, An " (Henry), 1185
"Unforgetting, The" (Chang), 512
Unfortunate Traveller, The (Nashe), 2716
"Unge mand med nelliken, Den" See "Young Man with the Carnation, The"
"Unimportant Man, An" (West), 2864
Union, A (Davies, Peter Ho), 692
"Union Buries Its Dead, The" (Lawson), 1460
United States, 2729; 1820-1920, 2786; 1920-1960, 2803; 1660-2000, 2826; and science
fiction, 2632; and the supernatural, 2643, 2649-2650. See also "Geographical Index"
"Unknown, The" (Bombal), 279
"Unknown Masterpiece, The" (Balzac), 149
"Unlucky for Pringle" (Lewis), 1504
"Uno Más" (Morris), 1715
"Unperformed Experiments Have No Results" (Hospital), 1230
Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten. See Conversations of German Emigrants
Untilled Field, The (Moore, George), 2800, 2916
"Uomo e il personaggio, Il." See "Man and the Character, The"
"Up Among the Eagles" (Valenzuela), 2387
Updike, John, 2375-2385, 2827; "A & P," 2377, 2828; "Afterlife, The," 2384;
Afterlife and Other Stories, The, 2383, 2828; "Alligators, The," 2377; "City, The," 2383;
"Egg Race, The," 2382; "Flight," 2377; "From the Journal of a Leper," 2381;
"Here Come the Maples," 2381; "Man Who Became a Soprano, The," 2383; Museums and
Women and Other Stories
, 2379; Music School, The, 2379; "Pigeon Feathers," 2828;
Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories, 2377; Problems and Other Stories, 2380;
Same Door, The, 2377; "Sandstone Farmhouse, A," 2383; "Separating," 2380; "Slippage," 2382;
"Sublimating," 2380; "Transaction," 2381; "Trust Me," 2382; "When Everyone Was Pregnant," 2379;
"Wife-Wooing," 2378
"Upon This Evil Earth" (Oz), 1863
"Upstairs in a Wineshop" (Lu), 1548
"Uroki francuzskogo." See "French Lessons"
"Urteil, Das." See "Judgment, The"
Utopian, 2633. See also "Category Index"
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V
"V podvale." See "In the Basement"
"V stepi." See "In the Steppe"
"Valaida" (Wideman), 2513
Valenzuela, Luisa, 2386-2389; "I'm Your Horse in the Night," 2387;
"Other Weapons," 2388; "Symmetries," 2388; "Up Among the Eagles," 2387
"Valiant Woman, The" (Powers), 1959
"Valley Between, The" (Marshall), 1636
"Valor" (Bausch), 205
Van Gogh, Vincent, 823
Van Gogh's Room at Arles (Elkin), 823
Vanderhaeghe, Guy, 2390-2393; "Expatriates' Party, The," 2392; Man Descending,
2391; "Watcher, The," 2391
Vapnfjord Men, The, 2676
"Varenka Olesova" (Gorky), 1058
Vargas Llosa, Mario, 2943
"Variation on a Theme" (Collier), 609
"Various Temptations" (Sansom), 2089
"Vasily and Vasilisa" (Rasputin), 2024
"Vdova" See "Widow, The" (Babel)
Vega, Ed, 2958
Vehicle, 3068
"Vengeful Creditor" (Achebe), 5
"Veni, Vidi . . . Wendt" (Stern), 2241
Venus of Ille, The (Mérimée), 1673
Verga, Giovanni, 2393-2398; "Last Day, The," 2396; Little Novels of Sicily,
2396; Per le vie, 2396; "Property," 2396; "Rustic Chivalry," 2395; "She-Wolf, The," 2395;
Under the Shadow of Etna, 2395-2396
Vergil, 2398-2403; Aeneid, 2399, 2663, 2665
Verisimilitude, 3068
Verism, 2790
"Vertical Ladder, The" (Sansom), 2086
Verwandlung, Die. See Metamorphosis, The
"Vesna v Fialte." See "Spring in Fialta"
Via crucis do corpo, A (Lispector), 1520
"Viaggio, La." See "Adrianna Takes a Trip"
"Viaggio di nozze." See "Wedding Trip"
"Victory Mills" (Simpson), 2156
Victory over Japan (Gilchrist), 993
Vidocq, François-Eugène, 2613
"Vieja moralidad." See "Old Morality, The"
Vietnamese American culture, 2885
"Views of My Father Weeping" (Barthelme, Donald), 186
"Vigil" (Gates), 982
Vignette, 3068
Villon, 2798
"Vina Divina" (Rushdie), 2070
"Vintage Thunderbird, A" (Beattie), 212
"Violence" (Grimm), 1090
"Violets" (Dunbar-Nelson), 2860
Viramontes, Helena María, 2403-2406, 2956; "Birthday," 2957; "Cariboo Cafe, The,"
2405, 2956; "Moths, The," 2404, 2956; "Neighbors," 2405; "Snapshots," 2404
"Vision of Mizrah, The" (Addison), 15, 2727
"Vision of the Dead Creole, The" (Hearn), 1157
"Visit, The" (Jackson), 1276
"Visitation, The" (Woiwode), 2540
"Visitor, The" (Thomas), 2310
Vita dei campi. See Under the Shadow of Etna
"Viy" (Gogol), 1026
Vizenor, Gerald, 2406-2409, 2961; "Baron of Patronia, The," 2968; "Chair of
Tears, The," 2408; Earthdivers, 2408; "Landfill Meditation," 2407;
"Luminous Thighs: Mythic Tropisms," 2408; "Marleen American Horse," 2407;
"Psychotaxidermist, The," 2407; Wordarrows, 2407
"Voice from the Woods, A" (Humphrey), 1246
"Voice of the Night, The" (Hodgson), 2634
Voices Made Night (Couto), 2848
"Voices of Adamo, The" (Laurence), 1440
Völsunga Saga. See Saga of the Volsungs, The
Voltaire, 2410-2416, 2730; Babouc, 2412; Candide, 2412; Jeannot
and Colin
, 2413; Memnon, 2413; Zadig, 2412
Vonnegut, Kurt, 2416-2423; Bagombo Snuff Box, 2421; "Go Back to Your
Precious Wife and Son," 2420; "Harrison Bergeron," 2419; "Poor Little Rich Town," 2420;
"Welcome to the Monkey House," 2418
"Vor dem Gesetz." See "Before the Law"
Vorticism, 1501
"Voter, The" (Achebe), 2851
Voyage of St. Brendan, 2687
Vtoroye rozhdeniye. See Second Birth
"Vystrel." See "Shot, The"
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W
Wace; Roman de Brut, 2694
Wahre Muftoni, Der (Meckel), 1663
Wain, John, 2424-2428; Death of Hind Legs and Other Stories, 2426;
"Giles and Penelope," 2426; "King Caliban," 2426; "Life Guard, The," 2426;
"Master Richard," 2425; "Message from the Pig-Man, A," 2425; "While the Sun Shines," 2426
"Waiting for the Ladies" (Brown), 362
"Waiting-Room, The" (Böll), 276
Waka poems, 2928
"Wake, The" (Keillor), 1354
Wakefield, H. Russell, 2650
"Waking" (Brodkey), 358
"Wald, Der" (Walser), 2439-2440
Waldo, Edward Hamilton. See Sturgeon, Theodore
Waldrop, Howard, 2641
"Walk, The" (Donoso), 758
"Walk, The" (Walser), 2440
"Walk in the Night, A" (La Guma), 2854
Walker, Alice, 2428-2437, 2867; "Advancing Luna," 2868; "Child Who Favored
Daughter, The," 2431; Color Purple, The, 2867; "Everyday Use," 2434; "Fame," 2433;
In Love and Trouble, 2430, 2868; "Nineteen Fifty-Five," 2433; "Porn," 2868;
"Revenge of Hannah Kemhuff, The," 2431; "Roselily," 2430; "Source," 2434; "To Hell with
Dying," 2432; You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down, 2432, 2868
"Wall, The" (Sansom), 2085
"Wall, The" (Sartre), 2097, 2819
"Walls of Avila, The" (Connell), 616
Walpole, Horace; Castle of Otranto, The, 2643, 2729, 2756
Walser, Martin, 2606
Walser, Robert, 2437-2443; "Child, The," 2439; "Einfahrt, Die," 2440; Fritz
Kochers Aufsätze
, 2439; "Letter to a Commissioner of Novellas," 2442; "Oskar," 2440;
"Response to a Request," 2440; Slap in the Face Et Cetera, A, 2441;
"Strange City, A," 2440; "Wald, Der," 2439-2440; "Walk, The," 2440
"Walt and Will" (Apple), 87
"Walter Kömpff" (Hesse), 1189
Waltharius, 2685
"Waltz, The" (Parker), 1884
"Waltzing the Cat" (Houston), 1233
Waltzing the Cat (Houston), 1232
Walwicz, Ania, 2892
"Wanderer, kommst du nach spa . . ." See "Stranger, Bear Word to the Spartans We . . ."
Wandering (Lu), 1547
Wandering Ghosts (Crawford), 2649
"Wandering Willie's Tale" (Scott), 2122, 2745
Wandrei, Donald, 2651
Wang Anyi, 2443-2449; "And the Rain Patters On," 2444; Baotown, 2445;
"Base of the Wall, The," 2445; Beitong zhidi, 2447; Brocade Valley, 2446;
"Destination," 2444; Lapse of Time, 2445; Love in a Small Town, 2446;
Love on a Barren Mountain, 2446; "Miaomiao," 2447; Shushu de gushi, 2447;
Xianggang de qing yu ai, 2447
"Wants" (Paley), 1874
War. See "Category Index"
"War Baby, The" (Lewis), 1504, 1506
"War Fever" (Ballard), 146
"War Maiden, The" (Eastman), 2963
"Warawanu otoko." See "Man Who Did Not Smile, The"
Ward, Alfred, 2757
"Warden, The" (Gardner), 959
Warner, Sylvia Townsend, 2449-2455; "But at the Stroke of Midnight," 2453;
"Early One Morning," 2453; "Hee-Haw!," 2450; Innocent and the Guilty, The, 2453;
Kingdoms of Elfin, 2454; "Love Match, A," 2451; "Oxenhope," 2453; Scenes of
Childhood
, 2454; "Swans on an Autumn River," 2452; "Winter in the Air," 2451
Warren, Austin; Theory of Literature, 2752
Warren, Robert Penn, 2456-2461; "Blackberry Winter," 2457; "Circus in the
Attic, The," 2458; "Prime Leaf," 2458; Understanding Fiction, 2607;
"When the Light Gets Green," 2457
"Warrior Road" (Harjo), 1120
"Warrior's Daughter, A" (Zitkala-Sa), 2964
Warung, Price, 2889
"Watakushi." See "Thief, The"
"Watch, The" (Bass), 195
"Watch, The" (Swift), 2274
"Watcher, The" (Vanderhaeghe), 2391
Watcher of Waipuna and Other Stories, The (Pak, Gary), 2884
"Watching Me, Watching You" (Weldon), 2473
Waten, Judah, 2892
"Water Liars" (Hannah), 2837
"'Water Them Geraniums'" (Lawson), 1461
Watercress Girl and Other Stories, The (Bates), 201
"Way Back, The" (Grau), 1067
"Way Back, The" (Robbe-Grillet), 2046
"Way of the Wind" (Oz), 1862
"Way People Run, The" (Tilghman), 2319, 2839
"--We Also Walk Dogs" (Heinlein), 1160
We Are Still Married (Keillor), 1354
We, in Some Strange Power's Employ Move on a Rigorous Line (Delany), 711
"We Killed Mangy-Dog" (Honwana), 2847
We Killed Mangy-Dog and Other Mozambique Stories (Honwana), 2847
"Weaver's Grave, The" (O'Kelly), 2918
"Wedding Day" (Bennett), 2863
"Wedding Day" (Boyle, Kay), 319
"Wedding Dress, A" (Callaghan), 418
"Wedding Trip" (Pavese), 1895
"Weekend" (Beattie), 2831
Weidman, Jerome, 2462-2465; "Horse That Could Whistle `Dixie,'" The," 2464;
"I Knew What I Was Doing," 2464; "My Father Sits in the Dark," 2463; "Three-Two Pitch," 2463
"Wejumpka" (Bass), 196
Welch, Denton, 2466-2471; "At Sea," 2467; "Brave and Cruel," 2469;
"Coffin on the Hill, The," 2467; "Diamond Badge, The," 2470; "Fire in the Wood, The," 2470;
"Hateful Word, The," 2470; "Judas Tree, The," 2468; "When I Was Thirteen," 2468
"Welcome to the Monkey House" (Vonnegut), 2418
"Welcome, Bob" (Onetti), 1850
"Welding with Children" (Gautreaux), 989
Weldon, Fay, 2472-2476; "Au Pair," 2474; Hard Time to Be a Father, A, 2474;
"I Do What I Can and I Am What I Am," 2474; "Ind Aff or Out of Love in Sarajevo," 2474;
"Moon Over Minneapolis," 2474; Moon Over Minneapolis, 2473; "Pains," 2474;
"Subject to Diary," 2474; "Watching Me, Watching You," 2473
Wellek, René; Theory of Literature, 2752
Wells, H. G., 2476-2481, 2633; "Country of the Blind, The," 2479; "Door in the
Wall, The," 2479; "Lord of the Dynamos, The," 2478; "Man Who Could Work Miracles, The," 2478;
"Beautiful Suit, The," 2479
Welty, Eudora, 2482-2489, 2605, 2808; "Clytie," 2808; "Death of a Traveling
Salesman," 2484; "Keela, the Outcast Indian Maiden," 2484; "Livvie," 2485;
"Moon Lake," 2486; "Still Moment, A," 2486; "Where Is the Voice Coming From?," 2488;
"Whole World Knows, The," 2487; "Why I Live at the P.O.," 2484, 2808; "Wide Net, The," 2485;
"Worn Path, A," 2484
Wen-Amon , 2658
"Werewolf Raspberries" (Brautigan), 346
"Werewolves in Their Youth" (Chabon), 504
Wescott, Glenway, 2490-2494; Babe's Bed, The, 2493; Good-bye, Wisconsin,
2492; "Guilty Woman, A," 2492; "In a Thicket," 2492; "Like a Lover," 2492; Pilgrim Hawk:
A Love Story, The
, 2493; "Sailor, The," 2492; "Whistling Swan, The," 2492
West Indian culture, 2944, 2957. See also "Category Index";
"Geographical Index"
West, Dorothy, 2863; "Unimportant Man, An," 2864
West, Jessamyn, 2495-2499; "Battle of Finney's Ford, The," 2497;
"Condemned Librarian, The," 2498; Cress Delahanty, 2497; Crimson Ramblers of the
World, Farewell
, 2498; "Fifteen: Spring," 2497; Friendly Persuasion, The, 2496;
"Live Life Deeply," 2498; "Music on the Muscatatuck," 2496; "Neighbors," 2498;
"99.6," 2496; "Time of Learning, A," 2497
West, Ray Benedict, 2602
Western United States, 2744. See also "Category Index"
Wharton, Edith, 2500-2505, 2602, 2649; "After Holbein," 2503; "Eyes, The," 2502;
"Rembrandt, The," 2501
"What Do Hippos Eat?" (Wilson), 2536
"What I Did for Love" (Schwartz, Lynne Sharon), 2118-2119
"What I Have Been Doing Lately" (Kincaid), 1365
"What Jorkens Has to Put Up With" (Dunsany), 801
What Kind of Day Did You Have? (Bellow), 237
"What My Mother Knew" (Simpson), 2154
"What Salmon Know" (Reid), 2028
"What the Tapster Saw" (Okri), 1842
"What Was It?" (O'Brien, Fitz-James), 1789, 2774
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Cheever), 475
"What You Hear from 'Em?" (Taylor, Peter), 2297
"What You Left in the Ditch" (Bender), 241
"What's in a Song" (Kenny), 2969
"What's It Like Out?" (Gilliatt), 999
What's It Like Out? (Gilliatt), 999
"What's Wrong with Him?" (Zhang), 2581
"When Boyhood Dreams Come True" (Farrell), 852
"When Everyone Was Pregnant" (Updike), 2379
"When Hell Froze" (Steele, Wilbur Daniel), 2219
"When I Was a Witch" (Gilman), 1006
"When I Was Thirteen" (Welch), 2468
When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dinner (Gates), 1425
"When My Girl Comes Home" (Pritchett), 1972
"When the Light Gets Green" (Warren), 2457
"When the Lights Return" (Okri), 1842
"When the Old Century Was New" (Dreiser), 785
"When the Sardines Came" (Plomer), 1938
When William Came (Saki), 2075
"When You Grow to Adultery" (Leavitt), 1465
"When You're Excused You're Excused" (Friedman), 918
"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" (Oates), 1775
"Where I'm Calling From" (Carver), 477
"Where Is the Voice Coming From?" (Welty), 2488
Where the Jackals Howl and Other Stories (Oz), 1862
"Where There's a Will" (Christie), 575
"Where's Duncan?" (Harris, Joel Chandler), 1125
"While the Sun Shines" (Wain), 2426
"Whistling Swan, The" (Wescott), 2492
"White" (Williams, Joy), 2522
"White Boys, The" (Oates), 1580
White Deer, The (Thurber), 2315
"White Heron, A" (Jewett), 1298
"White Horse, The" (Jones), 2838
"White Horses of Vienna, The" (Boyle, Kay), 320
"White Lock of Hair, The" (Pardo Bazán), 1880
"White Nights" (Dostoevski), 762
"White People, The" (Machen), 1576
"White Quail, The" (Steinbeck), 2236
"White Rooster, The" (Goyen), 1061
"White Tigers" (Kingston), 1380
White, E. B., 2506-2509; "Door, The," 2507; "Hour of Letdown, The," 2508;
"Morning of the Day They Did It, The," 2508; "Quo Vadimus," 2508; "Second Tree from the Corner, The," 2507
White, Edward Lucas, 2650
Whitehead, Henry S., 2651
"Whole Loaf, A" (Agnon), 26
"Whole World Knows, The" (Welty), 2487
Who's Irish? (Jen), 2876
"Why Can't They Tell You Why?" (Purdy), 1993
"Why Don't You Dance?" (Carver), 476, 2830
"Why I Like Country Music" (McPherson), 1583
"Why I Live at the P.O." (Welty), 2484, 2808
"Wide Net, The" (Welty), 2485
Wideman, John Edgar, 2509-2515, 2857; All Stories Are True, 2514;
"Backseat," 2514; "Beginning of Homewood, The," 2512; "Chinaman, The," 2511;
"Daddy Garbage," 2512; "Damballah," 2512; Damballah, 2511; "Everybody Knew Bubba
Riff," 2514; "Fever," 2513; Fever, 2513; "Hostages," 2513; "Lizabeth: The Caterpillar
Story," 2512; "Newborn Thrown in Trash and Dies," 2514; "Songs of Reba Love Jackson, The," 2512;
"Surfiction," 2513; "Valaida," 2513
"Widow, The" (Babel), 133
"Widow of Ephesus, The" (Petronius), 1913
"Widow's Walk" (Grau), 1068
Wieland, Christopher Martin, 2747
"Wife of Bath's Tale, The" (Chaucer), 528
"Wife of His Youth, The" (Chesnutt), 552
"Wife of Nashville, A" (Taylor, Peter), 2297
"Wife-Wooing" (Updike), 2378
Wiggins, Marianne, 2516-2519; "Among the Impressionists," 2517;
"Balloons'n Tunes," 2518; Bet They'll Miss Us When We're Gone, 2517;
"Croeso i Gymru," 2518; "Green Park," 2517; "Grocer's Daughter," 2518; "Kafkas," 2517
Wild Body, The (Lewis), 1503
Wilderness Tips (Atwood), 113
"Wildgoose Lodge" (Carleton), 2915
Wildlife (Ford), 883
"Wilfrid Holmes" (Moore, George), 1696
Will You Always Love Me? (Oates), 1777
William of Malmesbury; Deeds of the Kings of the English, The, 2693
Williams, Ella Gwendolen Rees. See Rhys, Jean
Williams, Joy, 2520-2524; "Bromeliads," 2522; "Escapes," 2522; Escapes,
2521; "Health," 2522;
"Lulu," 2522; "Rot," 2522; "Shepherd," 2521; "Skater, The," 2522; "Taking Care," 2521;
"Traveling to Pridesup," 2521; "White," 2522; "Winter Chemistry," 2521
Williams, Tennessee, 2524-2530; "Completed," 2527; "Desire and the Black Masseur," 2527;
"Hard Candy," 2526; "Night of the Iguana, The," 2525; "One Arm," 2528;
"Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin, The," 2526; "Sabbatha and Solitude," 2527;
"Three Players of a Summer Game," 2526
Williams, William Carlos, 2530-2534; "Face of Stone, A," 2532; "Farmers' Daughters,
The," 2533; "Jean Beicke," 2532; "Old Doc Rivers," 2531
"Willows, The" (Blackwood), 264, 2797
"Wilshire Bus" (Yamamoto), 2879
Wilson, Angus, 2535-2538; "Realpolitik," 2536; "Totentanz," 2536; "What Do
Hippos Eat?," 2536
Wilson, Edmund, 2799
Wimsey, Lord Peter, 2618
Wind Shifting West, The (Grau), 1066
"Widow, The" (Gates), 1532
"Windy Day at the Reservoir" (Beattie), 215
Winesburg, Ohio (Anderson), 77
"Winter Chemistry" (Williams, Joy), 2521
"Winter Dreams" (Fitzgerald), 867
"Winter in the Air" (Warner), 2451
"Winter Night" (Boyle, Kay), 322
"Winter: 1978" (Beattie), 213
"Winter's Day, A" (Leskov), 1493
"Wireless." See "Where There's a Will"
Wise Economies (Curnutt), 2610
"Wish House, The" (Kipling), 1391
"Wissler Remembers" (Stern), 2242
Wit and humor, 2664, 2744. See also "Category Index"
"Witchcraft" (Head), 2854
With the Snow Queen (Greenberg), 1073
"Withdrawal" (Carey), 453
"Withered Arm, The" (Hardy), 1113
Without a Hero (Boyle, T. C.), 329
"Without Benefit of Galsworthy" (Collier), 608
"Without Love" (Pasternak), 1889
"Witness, The" (Sansom), 2086
"Witness, The" (Petry), 1921
Woiwode, Larry, 2538-2543; "Beginning of Grief, The," 2540; "Black Winter,"
2542; "Blindness," 2542; "Brief Fall, A," 2541; "Burial," 2541;
"Confessionals," 2542; "Deathless Lovers," 2540; "Firstborn," 2541; "Marie," 2541;
Neumiller Stories, The, 2539; "Old Halvorson Place, The," 2541; "Owen's Father," 2542;
"Pheasants," 2540; "She," 2541; "Silent Passengers," 2542; Silent Passengers, 2542;
"Summer Storms," 2542; "Visitation, The," 2540
Wolfe, Thomas, 2544-2548; "Death the Proud Brother," 2547; "Kinsman of His
Blood, A," 2546; "No Door," 2546
Wolff, Tobias, 2549-2554, 2832; Back in the World, 2552; "Coming Attractions,"
2552; "Desert Breakdown, 1968," 2552; "Hunters in the Snow," 2551; "In the Garden of the
North American Martyrs," 2551; In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, 2551;
"Life of the Body, The," 2553; "Next Door," 2551; "Night in Question, The," 2553;
Night in Question, The, 2552; "Other Miller," 2552; "Our Story Begins," 2550; "Passenger," 2552;
"Poaching," 2552; "Rich Brother, The," 2552; "Say Yes," 2832
Frame1
"Woman at the Store, The" (Mansfield), 1621
"Woman Hollering Creek" (Cisneros), 583, 2956
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (Cisneros), 582, 2955
"Woman in the Room, The" (King), 1371
Woman Lit by Fireflies, The (Harrison), 1131
"Woman Who Fell from the Sky, The" (Harjo), 1120
"Woman Who Rode Away, The" (Lawrence), 1455
"Woman's Fight, A" (Linderman), 2962
Women on the Wall, The (Stegner), 2221-2222
Women with Men (Ford), 884
Women's issues, 2638, 2946, 2976. See also "Category Index"
"Wonderful Glass, The" (Grimm), 1088
"Wonderful Tar-Baby Story, The" (Harris, Joel Chandler), 1123
"Wonders of the Invisible World, The" (Gates), 981
Wonders of the Invisible World, The (Gates), 981
"Wondersmith, The" (O'Brien, Fitz-James), 1788
"Wooden Anniversary, The" (Leavitt), 1468
Wooing of Etain, 2689
Woolf, Virginia, 2554-2560; "Blue and Green," 2556; "Haunted House, A," 2557;
"Kew Gardens," 2557; "Lappin and Lapinova," 2557; "Monday or Tuesday," 2556; "Solid Objects," 2557
Wordarrows (Vizenor), 2407
Words with Power (Frye), 2659
Wordsworth, William, 2757, 2786
Works and Days (Hesiod), 2626
Works Progress Administration, 2864
"World According to Hsu, The" (Mukherjee), 1724
"World Ends, A" (Hildesheimer), 1203
World Is the Home of Love and Death, The (Brodkey), 358
"World of Heroes, The" (Kavan), 1342
World of Sholom Aleichem (Perl), 50
"World of Stone" (Borowski), 298
"World War I Los Angeles Airplane, The" (Brautigan), 345
"World Well Lost, The" (Sturgeon), 2266
Worldly Mental Calculations (Ihara Saikaku), 1266
"Worlds That Flourish" (Okri), 1841
"Worn Path, A" (Welty), 2484
"Worst Thing a Suburban Girl Could Imagine, The" (Bank), 158
"Wounded Socrates, The" (Brecht), 350
"Wreath for Garibaldi, A" (Garrett), 971
Wright, Austin McGiffert, 2602
Wright, Richard, 2560-2565, 2864; "Fire and Cloud," 2561; "Man Who Lived Underground,
The," 2562
Wright, S. Fowler; New Gods Lead, The, 2639
"Wronged Husband, A" (Gates), 981
"Wunderkind, Das." See "Infant Prodigy, The"
"Wunderkind" (McCullers), 1557
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X
Xianggang de qing yu ai (Wang), 2447
"Xuela" (Kincaid), 1366
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Y
. . . Y no se lo tragó la tierra. See . . . And the earth
did not part

"Yabu no naka." See "In a Grove"
Yamamoto, Hisaye, 2879; "Legend of Miss Sasagawara, The," 2879; "Life Among the Oilfields,"
2879; "Wilshire Bus," 2879
Yamauchi, Wakako, 2879; "And the Soul Shall Dance," 2880
"Yao." See "Medicine"
Yarn, 3068
Ye Shengtao, 2910
"Year of Getting to Know Us, The" (Canin), 435
Yeats, William Butler, 2566-2571; "Adoration of the Magi, The," 2570;
"Dhoya," 2567; "John Sherman," 2568; "Proud Costello, MacDermot's Daughter, and the
Bitter Tongue," 2568; Stories of Red Hanrahan, 2569; "Tables of the Law, The," 2569;
"Twisting of the Rope, The," 2569
"Yellow Wallpaper, The" (Gilman), 1005
Yellow Woman (Silko), 2139
Yerby, Frank; "Health Card," 2866
Yokohama, California (Mori, Tashio), 2877
"Yōkoku." See "Patriotism"
Yoshimoto, Banana, 2934
"You and I" (Sinyavsky), 2168
"You Are What You Own" (Adams), 11
"You Can Always Tell Newark" (O'Hara), 1835
You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down (Walker), 2432, 2868
"You Gave Me Hyacinths" (Hospital), 1229
"You Must Remember This" (Coover), 636
"You Touched Me" (Lawrence), 1453
"Young Archimedes" (Huxley), 1259
"Young Girl, The" (Mansfield), 1620
"Young Goodman Brown" (Hawthorne), 1147, 2644, 2741, 2762
"Young Man with the Carnation, The" (Dinesen), 740
"Your Obituary, Well Written" (Aiken), 34
"Your Place Is Empty" (Tyler, Anne), 2367
"You're Ugly Too" (Moore, Lorrie), 1701
"Yours" (Robison), 2056
"Youth" (Conrad), 623
Yu Dafu, 2910
Yukiguni. See Snow Country
"Yume no ukihashi." See "Bridge of Dreams, The"
Yvain (Chrétien de Troyes), 569
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Z
"Zaabalawi" (Mahfouz), 1588
Zadig (Voltaire), 2412
Zakani, `Ubaid, 2661
Zamyatin, Yevgeny, 2572-2578; "Cave, The," 2576; "Flood, The," 2576; "In Old
Russia," 2575; Islanders, The, 2574; "Mamay," 2576; "North, The," 2575;
"Story About the Most Important Thing, A," 2576
"Zapechatlennyi angel." See "Sealed Angel, The"
Zapiski iz podpolya. See Notes from the Underground
Zapiski okhotnika. See Sportsman's Sketches, A
"Zapiski sumasshedshego." See "Diary of a Madman"
Zayas y Sotomayor, María de; Desengaños amorosos, 2706; Novelas amorosas
y exemplares
, 2706
"Ze wspomnień Ijona Ticheyo IV." See "Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy: IV"
Zealandia, 2893
"Zeitl and Rickel" (Singer), 2161
Zhan Kangkang, 2912
Zhang Jie, 2578-2584; "Ark, The," 2581; "Emerald," 2580; Love Must Not Be
Forgotten
, 2580; "Nobby's Run of Luck," 2582; "Other World, The," 2581;
"Something Else," 2582-2583; "Today's Agenda," 2582; "What's Wrong with Him?," 2581
"Zheleznaia volia." See "Iron Will"
"Zhitie inzhenera Kipreeva." See "Life of Engineer Kipreev, The"
"Zio acquatico, Lo." See "Aquatic Uncle, The"
Zitkala-Sa; American Indian Stories, 2964; "Warrior's Daughter, A," 2964
Zola, Émile, 2584-2588; "Attack on the Mill, The," 2587; "Death of Olivier
Bécaille, The," 2586
Zona sagrada. See Holy Place
Zone, The (Dovlatov), 773
"Zoo Island" (Rivera), 2043
"Zooey" (Salinger), 2080
Zoshchenko, Mikhail, 2589-2595; "Adventures of a Monkey, The," 2592;
"Get on with the Sleeping," 2591; "Heart of Stone, A," 2592
"Zum lu." See "Emerald"
"Zvonok." See "Doorbell, The"


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