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Short Story Writers, revised edition Index “A&P” (Updike), 1032 “Abroad” (Gordimer), 448 “Accompanist, The” (Pritchett), 888 Achebe, Chinua, 1-6 Acres and Pains (Perelman), 836 “Across the Bridge” (Gallant), 417 Actual, The (Bellow), 109 Adams, Alice, 7-12 “Admiralty Spire, The” (Nabokov), 747 “Adrianna Takes a Trip” (Pirandello), 853 “Adultery” (Dubus), 361 “Adventure of the Dancing Men, The” (Doyle), 354 “Adventure of the Empty House, The” (Doyle), 354 Aesop, 1132 Aestheticism, 1129 African American writers ;Maya Angelou, 43-47 ;James Baldwin, 66-72 ;Toni Cade Bambara, 73-78 ;Charles Waddell Chesnutt, 242-249 ;Ralph Ellison, 368-373 ;Langston Hughes, 505-511 ;Zora Neale Hurston, 512-518 ;Jamaica Kincaid, 576-582 ;Ann Petry, 841-849 ;Alice Walker, 1056-1065 ;Richard Wright, 1123-1128 African writers ;Chinua Achebe, 1-6 ;Isak Dinesen, 333-341 ;Nadine Gordimer, 444-452 ;Doris Lessing, 628-635 “After Holbein” (Wharton), 1086 After Rain (Trevor), 1003 Afterlife, and Other Stories, The (Updike), 1039 Aiken, Conrad, 13-19 Alexie, Sherman, 20-23 “Alicia Who Sees Mice” (Cisneros), 266 “All Fires the Fire” (Cortázar), 313 Allegory, 1129 ;Geoffrey Chaucer, 217 ;Charles Waddell Chesnutt, 244-245 ;Gabriel García Márquez, 424 ;Nikolai Gogol, 437 ;Nathaniel Hawthorne, 477, 480, 482 ;O. Henry, 501 ;Shirley Jackson, 530 ;Ursula K. Le Guin, 624 ;Bernard Malamud, 655 ;Herman Melville, 706, 709 ;Vladimir Nabokov, 748 ;Joyce Carol Oates, 764 ;James Purdy, 897 ;Robert Louis Stevenson, 954-955, 957 ;Edith Wharton, 1084 ;Tennessee Williams, 1099 Allende, Isabel, 24-27 Allusion, 1129 “Altar of the Dead, The” (James), 538 Ambiguity, 1129 American Indian writers. See Native American writers “Amuck in the Bush” (Callaghan), 176 Anachronism, 1129 Andersen, Hans Christian, 28-34 Anderson, Sherwood, 35-42 Andrézel, Pierre. See Dinesen, Isak Anecdote, 1129 “Angel Levine” (Malamud), 653 Angelou, Maya, 43-47 “Another Time” (O’Brien), 775 “Ant” (Dybek), 366 Antagonist, 1129 Anthology, 1129 Antigua, 576-582 Aphorism, 112-113, 571, 1129 Apostrophe, 437, 1129 “Arabesque: The Mouse” (Coppard), 307 Archetypes, 1130 ;Jorge Luis Borges, 129 ;Elizabeth Bowen, 138, 140 ;Truman Capote, 186 ;Arthur Conan Doyle, 348 ;Grimm Brothers, 462, 467 ;Washington Irving, 522 Argentina, 125-135, 310-316 Aristotle, 1131, 1133 “Artificial Nigger, The” (O’Connor), 782 Asian American writers ;Bharati Mukherjee, 723-733 ;Amy Tan, 961-965 Asian writers ;Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, 550-554 ;Yukio Mishima, 717-722 ;Bharati Mukherjee, 723-733 ;R. K. Narayan, 752-758 “Aspern Papers, The” (James), 536 Assignation, The (Oates), 766 “Asya” (Turgenev), 1011 “At Sallygap” (Lavin), 605 “At the Bay” (Mansfield), 676 “At the Bottom of the River” (Kincaid), 580 “At The Tolstoy Museum” (Barthelme), 92 “Athénaïse” (Chopin), 260 Atmosphere, 1130 Atwood, Margaret, 48-57 Autobiographical fiction ;Sherman Alexie, 21 ;Maya Angelou, 43 ;Margaret Atwood, 53 ;Isaac Babel, 59-60 ;Toni Cade Bambara, 75 ;Russell Banks, 80-81, 83 ;Giovanni Boccaccio, 118 ;Raymond Carver, 193 ;John Cheever, 221 ;Stuart Dybek, 366 ;Gustave Flaubert, 398 ;Mavis Gallant, 416 ;Shirley Jackson, 526-527 ;Franz Kafka, 568, 572 ;Jamaica Kincaid, 578 ;Mary Lavin, 604, 608 ;D. H. Lawrence, 612 ;Jack London, 639 ;Carson McCullers, 645 ;Thomas Mann, 667 ;Katherine Mansfield, 670 ;Yukio Mishima, 720 ;Alice Munro, 736 ;Vladimir Nabokov, 744 ;Seán O’Faoláin, 796 ;S. J. Perelman, 836 ;Isaac Bashevis Singer, 931 ;Dylan Thomas, 977 ;James Thurber, 982-984 ;Leo Tolstoy, 988 ;Ivan Turgenev, 1011 ;John Updike, 1039 ;Kurt Vonnegut, 1047 ;Alice Walker, 1061 ;Tennessee Williams, 1097-1098, 1104 ;Tobias Wolff, 1111 “Autumn Day” (Gallant), 415 “Average Waves in Unprotected Waters” (Tyler), 1024 “Axolotl” (Cortázar), 312 Babel, Isaac, 58-65, 1008 “Babette’s Feast” (Dinesen), 339 “Babylon Revisited” (Fitzgerald), 392 Back in the World (Wolff), 1112 Bagombo Snuff Box (Vonnegut), 1053 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 875 Baldwin, James, 45, 66-72 ;and Russell Banks, 80 ;and Richard Wright, 1123 “Ballad of the Sad Café, The” (MacCullers), 646 “Balloon, The” (Barthelme), 90 Bambara, Toni Cade, 73-78 “Bang-Bang You’re Dead” (Spark), 944 Banks, Russell, 79-85 “Bardon Bus” (Munro), 738 “Barn Burning” (Faulkner), 384 Barthelme, Donald, 86-95 “Bartleby the Scrivener” (Melville), 706 “Basement Room, The” (Greene), 456 “Beach of Falesá, The” (Stevenson), 958 “Bear, The” (Faulkner), 383 Beast from Twenty Thousand Fathoms, The (film), 167 “Beast in the Jungle, The” (James), 539 Beattie, Ann, 96-103, 681, 1092 “Beautiful Girl” (Adams), 10 “Before the Law” (Kafka), 570 “Beggars, The” (O’Flaherty), 807 “Belle Zoraïde, La” (Chopin), 259 Belloc, Hilaire, 251 Bellow, Saul, 104-111 Benchley, Robert, 13 “Best Quality” (Tan), 964 “Bestiary” (Cortázar), 311 “Beyond the Pale” (Kipling), 590 Bierce, Ambrose, 112-117 “Big Blonde” (Parker), 832 “Big Garage, The” (Boyle), 154 “Big Meeting” (Hughes), 508 “Birthmark, The” (Hawthorne), 481 Black humor, 835, 1130 ;Ambrose Bierce, 112 ;James Thurber, 982 ;Kurt Vonnegut, 1053 “Black Is My Favorite Color” (Malamud), 654 “Black Magic of Barney Haller, The” (Thurber), 983 Black Swan, The (Mann), 665 “Blackberry Winter” (Warren), 1067 “Blind Love” (Pritchett), 886 “Blind Man, The” (Lawrence), 614 “Blinder” (Gordimer), 450 “Bliss” (Mansfield), 673 “Bloodfall” (Boyle), 153 “Blow-Up” (Cortázar), 313 Blow-Up (film), 310-311 “Blue and Green” (Woolf), 1118 “Blue Cross, The” (Chesterton), 252 “Blue Hotel, The” (Crane), 323 “Blue Island” (Powers), 879 “Blue Kimono, The” (Callaghan), 178 “Bluebeard’s Egg” (Atwood), 52 Blixen, Karen. See Dinesen, Isak Boccaccio, Giovanni, 118-124 “Bones of Louella Brown, The” (Petry), 847 Book of the Duchess (Chaucer), 206 “Book of the Grotesque, The” (Anderson), 37 Borges, Jorge Luis, 86-88, 125-135, 311, 743 ;and Ray Bradbury, 166 ;and Sandra Cisneros, 265 “Boring Story, A” (Chekhov), 236 “Boule de Suif” (Maupassant), 698 Bowen, Elizabeth, 136-142, 670 “Boxes” (Carver), 195 Boyle, Kay, 143-151 Boyle, T. Coraghessan, 152-159 Bradbury, Ray, 160-172 “Branch Road, A” (Garland), 431 Breakfast at Tiffany’s (film), 182 Briar Rose (Coover), 300 “Bride, The” (Chekhov), 238 “Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, The” (Crane), 322 “Bridle, The” (Carver), 194 “Brigadier and the Golf Widow, The” (Cheever), 227 Brod, Max, 565 “Brokeback Mountain” (Proulx), 892 “Broken Homes” (Trevor), 1002 Brontë, Charlotte, 615, 992 Brontë, Emily, 942 Brooks, Van Wyck, 13 “Brushwood Boy, The” (Kipling), 592 “Buck in the Hills, The” (Clark), 272 ”Bucket Rider, The” (Kafka), 530, 571 “Bums in the Attic” (Cisneros), 266 “Bunchgrass Edge of the World, The” (Proulx), 893 Burlesque, 1130 ;Geoffrey Chaucer, 216 ;Washington Irving, 522 ;Franz Kafka, 570 ;Vladimir Nabokov, 747 Callaghan, Morley, 173-181 “Camberwell Beauty, The” (Pritchett), 887 Canadian writers ;Margaret Atwood, 48-57 ;Morley Callaghan, 173-181 ;Mavis Gallant, 413-419 ;Alice Munro, 734-742 Canterbury Tales, The (Chaucer), 211 “Cap for Steve, A” (Callaghan), 179 Capote, Truman, 182-187, 641 “Cariboo Café, The” (Viramontes), 1044 Caricature, 1130 ;Anton Chekhov, 233 ;Joseph Conrad, 288 ;S. J. Perelman, 836 ;V. S. Pritchett, 886 ;Joy Williams, 1092 Carmen (Mérimée), 714 Carver, Raymond, 96, 188-197, 497 ;and Tobias Wolff, 1110-1111 “Casualty” (Lessing), 633 Cather, Willa, 198-204 ;and Sarah Orne Jewett, 543-544, 548 “Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The” (Twain), 1016 “Celestial Omnibus, The” (Forster), 411 “Census Taker, The” (Oates), 763 “Champion” (Lardner), 599 Character types, 38, 1130 ;Geoffrey Chaucer, 218 ;Bret Harte, 470 ;Guy de Maupassant, 695 ;Isaac Bashevis Singer, 934 Chaucer, Geoffrey, 205-219, 595-596, 833 ;and Giovanni Boccaccio, 118 “Cheat’s Remorse, The” (Callaghan), 179 Cheever, John, 220-230 ;and T. Coraghessan Boyle, 152 Chekhov, Anton, 63, 231-241, 671, 747 ;and Seán O’Faoláin, 796 ;and V. S. Pritchett, 886 ;and William Saroyan, 920 Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 242-249 Chesterton, G. K., 250-257 “Chickamauga” (Bierce), 114 “Child of God, The” (O’Flaherty), 805 “Child Who Favored Daughter, The” (Walker), 1059 Childhood and Other Neighborhoods (Dybek), 365 “Childybawn” (O’Faoláin), 798 Chile, 24-27, 291 Chilly Scenes of Winter (film), 97 “Chip of Glass Ruby, A” (Gordimer), 447 Chopin, Kate, 258-263 “Christmas Tree and a Wedding, A” (Dostoevski), 345 Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Garcia Márquez), 424 “Chrysanthemums, The” (Steinbeck), 951 “Cicely’s Dream” (Chesnutt), 247 “Cinderella Waltz, The” (Beattie), 99 “Circular Ruins, The” (Borges), 131 “Circus, The” (Porter), 872 “Circus in the Attic, The” (Warren), 1068 Cisneros, Sandra, 264-270 “City, The” (Updike), 1038 “City of the Dead, a City of the Living, A” (Gordimer), 450 “Civil Peace” (Achebe), 5 Clark, Walter Van Tilburg, 271-276 Clarke, Arthur C., 277-284 Clemens, Samuel Langhorne. See Twain, Mark“Clerk’s Tale, The” (Chaucer), 216 Climax, 1130 Close Range: Wyoming Stories (Proulx), 892 “Cloud, Castle, Lake” (Nabokov), 748 Coast of Chicago, The (Dybek), 366 “Cock Robin, Beale Street” (Hurston), 517 Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant, The (Gallant), 416 Collected Stories, The (Paley), 827 Colomba (Mérimée), 714 Colombia, 420-427 “Color of Darkness” (Purdy), 898 Comic stories, 798, 1062, 1130 “Completed” (Williams), 1098 “Conjurer’s Revenge, The” (Chesnutt), 245 Conrad, Joseph, 285-294, 317 ;and Liam O’Flaherty, 804 Conte, 1131 “Conversation, A” (Aiken), 17 Cooper, James Fenimore, 523, 536 Coover, Robert, 295-302 Coppard, A. E., 303-309 “Cords” (O’Brien), 772 “Corn Planting, The” (Anderson), 40 Cortázar, Julio, 125, 310-316 “Country Doctor, A” (Kafka), 572 “Country Husband, The” (Cheever), 226 “Country Passion, A” (Callaghan), 175 “Course of English Studies, A” (Jhabvala), 551 “Cousin Theresa” (Saki), 906 “Cousins” (Bellow), 109 “Cracked Looking-Glass, The” (Porter), 870 Crane, Stephen, 317-326 Crayon, Geoffrey. See Irving, Washington Criticism, 1131 “Crown, The” (Lawrence), 616 “Curtain Blown by the Breeze, A” (Spark), 943 “Cutting Edge” (Purdy), 899 Czech writers ;Franz Kafka, 565-575 ;Thomas Mann, 659-669 Daisy Miller (James), 535 “Damned Thing, The” (Bierce), 115 “Dance of the Happy Shades” (Munro), 735 “Dancing Girls” (Atwood), 50 Danish writers ;Hans Christian Andersen, 28-34 ;Isak Dinesen, 333-341 “Danny’s Girls” (Mukherjee), 730 “Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, The” (Saroyan), 921 Dark Carnival (Bradbury), 164 Darkness (Mukherjee), 726 “Darkness Box” (LeGuin), 624 “Darling, The” (Chekhov), 238 “Daughters of the Late Colonel, The” (Mansfield), 674 “Dawn” (Purdy), 900 “Dayspring Mishandled” (Kipling), 595 De la Mare, Walter, 327-332 “Dead, The” (Joyce), 562 “Dean of Men” (Taylor), 967 “Death and the Child” (Crane), 324 “Death and the Compass” (Borges), 130 Death in Midsummer, and Other Stories (Mishima), 718 “Death in the Woods” (Anderson), 39 Death in Venice (Mann), 663 “Death of a Traveling Salesman” (Welty), 1075 Death of Ivan Ilyich, The (Tolstoy), 993 “Death of Justina, The” (Cheever), 226 Deconstruction, 1131 Defamiliarization, 298, 1131 “Defeated, The” (Gordimer), 450 “Demon Lover, The” (Bowen), 139 Denís, Julio. See Cortázar, Julio Dénouement, 1131 “Descent into the Maelström, A” (Poe), 859 “Desire and the Black Masseur” (Williams), 1099 “Désirée’s Baby” (Chopin), 260 “Destiny” (Erdrich), 376 “Destructors, The” (Greene), 457 Detective stories. See Mystery and detective fiction Deus ex machina, 218, 1131 “Devil Was the Joker, The” (Powers), 877 Dialogics, 1131 “Diary of a Madman, The” (Gogol), 440 “Diary of a Superfluous Man, The” (Turgenev), 1010 Dickens, Charles ;and Bret Harte, 470 ;and O. Henry, 500 Didacticism, 991, 1131 Diegesis, 1131 Dinesen, Isak, 333-341 Displaced Person, The (O’Connor), 783 “Diver, The” (Pritchett), 887 “Dividends” (O’Faoláin), 799 “Doctor, The” (Gallant), 417 Dodu, and Other Stories (Narayan), 754 “Doll’s House, The” (Mansfield), 677 Domecq, H. Bustos. See Borges, Jorge Luis “Domestic Dilemma, A” (MacCullers), 643 “Don’t Call Me by My Right Name” (Purdy), 899 “Doorbell, The” (Nabokov), 746 Doppelgänger, 351-352, 540, 957, 1131 Dostoevski, Fyodor, 342-347 ;and Nikolai Gogol, 188, 435 ;and Ivan Turgenev, 1007, 1010 “Downward Path to Wisdom, The” (Porter), 873 Doyle, Arthur Conan, 348-357 ;and O. Henry, 500 “Dream of a Ridiculous Man, The” (Dostoevski), 345 Dream vision, 205-206, 208-209, 527, 1132 “Drummer Boy, The” (Trevor), 1001 “Drunkard, The” (O’Connor), 792 Dualism, 1132 Dubliners (Joyce), 544, 557, 604 Dubus, Andre, 358-363 “Duel, The” (Chekhov), 236 “Duel, The” (Conrad), 290 “Dwarf House” (Beattie), 97 Dybek, Stuart, 364-367 “Edna's Ruthie” (Cisneros), 267 “Egg, Thel” (Anderson), 40 Eggleston, Edward, 429 Eisenhower, Dwight D., 155 “Eleven” (Cisneros), 268 Eliot, T. S., 13 Ellison, Ralph, 368-373, 1123 “Emperor’s New Clothes, The” (Andersen), 31 Enemies: A Love Story (film), 933 “Enormous Radio, The” (Cheever), 223 “Entered as Second-Class Matter” (Perelman), 838 “Epilogue II” (Mansfield), 672 Epiphany, 1132 Erdrich, Louise, 374-378, 962 “Escapade, An” (Callaghan), 176 Escapes (Williams), 1092 Essay, 1132 Essay-sketch tradition, 1132 “Eterna” (Lavin), 607 “Eternal Moment, The” (Forster), 409 “Ethan Brand” (Hawthorne), 482 “Evening with John Joe Dempsey, An” (Trevor), 1000 “Eventide” (Purdy), 902 “Everyday Use” (Walker), 1063 Everything That Rises Must Converge (O’Connor), 784 “Everything Under the Sun” (Purdy), 900 “Ex Parte” (Lardner), 601 Exemplum, 216, 245, 382, 1132 Existentialism, 177, 359, 1132 ;Donald Barthelme, 89, 93 ;Ann Beattie, 100 ;Raymond Carver, 190, 194 ;Christian, 843 ;Fyodor Dostoevski, 344 ;Mavis Gallant, 417 ;Henry James, 540 ;Franz Kafka, 565, 573 ;Doris Lessing, 630 ;Flannery O’Connor, 778 ;Ann Petry, 843 ;Luigi Pirandello, 850 ;Jean-Paul Sartre, 177 ;Isaac Bashevis Singer, 938 ;Richard Wright, 1124, 1127 “Experiment in Misery, An” (Crane), 319 Exposition, 1132 “Eye of Apollo, The” (Chesterton), 253 “Eyes, The” (Wharton), 1085 Fables, 1132 ;Sherwood Anderson, 37 ;Geoffrey Chaucer, 212, 215-216 ;Charles Waddell Chesnutt, 244 ;Robert Coover, 300 ;Zora Neale Hurston, 517 ;Rudyard Kipling, 592 ;Ursula K. Le Guin, 626 ;Bernard Malamud, 650, 653, 655 ;parodies of, 243 ;and science fiction, 279 ;James Thurber, 984 ;Mark Twain, 1015 Fabulation, 461, 1132 “Face of Stone, A” (Williams), 1105 “Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut, The” (Twain), 1017 “Fairy Goose, The” (O’Flaherty), 805 Fairy tales, 622, 1133 ;Hans Christian Andersen, 28-34 ;Donald Barthelme, 87 ;John Cheever, 226 ;Grimm Brothers, 461-468, 767 ;Washington Irving, 522 ;Ursula K. Le Guin, 624 ;Bernard Malamud, 652 ;James Thurber, 981 “Fall of the House of Usher, The” (Poe), 863 “Fame” (Walker), 1062 Family Happiness (Tolstoy), 992 Fanatic Heart, A (O’Brien), 774 Fantastic, 1133 ;Julio Cortázar, 311 ;Isak Dinesen, 334, 336 ;E. M. Forster, 408 ;Gabriel García Márquez, 422, 424 ;Nikolai Gogol, 441 ;Franz Kafka, 565, 571 ;James Thurber, 984 ;Ivan Turgenev, 1007, 1009, 1012 “Farmers’ Daughters, The” (Williams), 1106 “Fat” (Carver), 190 “Father, A” (Mukherjee), 728 “Father’s Story, A” (Dubus), 361 Faulkner, William, 379-387, 752, 983 ;and Sherwood Anderson, 36 “Fiddler, The” (Melville), 709 “Fidelity” (Jhabvala), 552 “Field of Mustard, The” (Coppard), 304 Field, Eugene, 429 Fields, Annie, 543 “Fig Tree, The” (Porter), 873 “Fight, The” (Thomas), 976 Figurative language, 1133 “Figure in the Carpet, The” (James), 537 “Final Problem, The” (Doyle), 352 “Finding a Girl in America” (Dubus), 360 “Fine Accommodations” (Hughes), 508 “Fire and Cloud” (Wright), 1124 “First Confession” (O’Connor), 792 “First Love” (Turgenev), 1011 “First Seven Years, The” (Malamud), 652 “First Year of My Life, The” (Spark), 944 Fisherman of the Inland Sea, A (LeGuin), 625 Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 88, 388-396, 601 ;and Morley Callaghan, 173-174 “Five-Forty-Eight, The” (Cheever), 225 Flashbacks, 1133 ;Mary Lavin, 606 ;Edna O’Brien, 775 ;V. S. Pritchett, 886 ;Muriel Spark, 944 ;Anne Tyler, 1024 Flaubert, Gustave, 397-406, 558-559, 653, 990 ;and Guy de Maupassant, 695-697 “Fleur” (Erdrich), 376 “Flight” (Steinbeck), 952 “Flights of Fancy” (Trevor), 1002 “Fly, The” (Mansfield), 674 “Flying Home” (Ellison), 371 Flying Home, and Other Stories (Ellison), 369 Folktales, 1133 ;Hans Christian Andersen, 31 ;Kate Chopin, 259 ;Robert Coover, 298 ;Gabriel García Márquez, 424 ;Grimm Brothers, 465 ;Washington Irving, 519 ;Jamaica Kincaid, 577 ;Russian, 235, 438 ;Eudora Welty, 1077 “For Esmé—with Love and Squalor” (Salinger), 912 “Forest in Full Bloom, The” (Mishima), 718 “Forks, The” (Powers), 878 Form, 1133 Forster, E. M., 407-412 ;and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, 550 “Four Men in a Cave” (Crane), 319 Frame story, 1133 Framework, 1133 “Franklin’s Tale, The” (Chaucer), 218 Franny and Zooey (Salinger), 915 Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins, 584 French writers ;Julio Cortázar, 310-316 ;Gustave Flaubert, 397-406 ;Mavis Gallant, 413-419 ;Guy de Maupassant, 695-703 ;Prosper Mérimée, 712-716 Funerales de la Mamá Grande, Los (Garcia Márquez), 423 “Fur Coat, The” (O’Faoláin), 798 Gallant, Mavis, 413-419 García Márquez, Gabriel, 420-427 ;and Isabel Allende, 25 ;and Julio Cortázar, 310 ;and William Faulkner, 379 “Garden of Forking Paths, The” (Borges), 130 “Garden-Party, The” (Mansfield), 677 Garland, Hamlin, 318, 428-434 “Gaspar Ruiz” (Conrad), 291 Gendered, 1133 “General’s Day, The” (Trevor), 999 Genre study, 1133 Gentle Grafter, The (Henry), 502 “Geranium, The” (O’Connor), 781 “German Refugee, The” (Malamud), 655 German writers ;Grimm Brothers, 461-468 ;Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, 550-554 ;Thomas Mann, 659-669 “Gift of the Magi, The” (Henry), 500 “Gilded Six-Bits, The” (Hurston), 517 “Gimpel the Fool” (Singer), 935 “Girl” (Kincaid), 578 “Girls at War” (Achebe), 4 “Give It Up!” (Kafka), 570 “Giving Birth” (Atwood), 51 Glass Family Cycle, The (Salinger), 914 “Glass Mountain, The” (Barthelme), 93 “Go-Away Bird, The” (Spark), 944 “Go Back to Your Precious Wife and Son” (Vonnegut), 1052 “Godfather Death” (Grimm), 463 “Godliness” (Anderson), 38 “God’s Wrath” (Malamud), 656 Gogol, Nikolai, 435-443 ;and T. Coraghessan Boyle, 154-155 ;and Vladimir Nabokov, 745 “Going Home With Uccello” (Beattie), 102 “Going to Meet the Man” (Baldwin), 68 Golden Apples of the Sun, The (Bradbury), 167 “Golden Honeymoon” (Lardner), 600 “Gonzaga Manuscripts, The” (Bellow), 107 Good Bones and Simple Murders (Atwood), 55 “Good Country People” (O’Connor), 782 Good Man Is Hard to Find, A (O’Connor), 781 “Good Women, The” (Sillitoe), 927 “Goodbye, My Brother” (Cheever), 223 “Goophered Grapevine, The” (Chesnutt), 244 Gordimer, Nadine, 444-452 “Gorilla, My Love” (Bambara), 75 Gorilla, My Love (Bambara), 74 Gothic stories, 1133 ;Sherwood Anderson, 38-39 ;Ray Bradbury, 169 ;Truman Capote, 186 ;Isak Dinesen, 334 ;Arthur Conan Doyle, 350 ;Washington Irving, 523 ;Joyce Carol Oates, 761 ;Edna O’Brien, 773-774 ;Edgar Allan Poe, 857-866 ;James Purdy, 899 ;Eudora Welty, 1076 ;Virginia Woolf, 1119 “Grandfather and Grandson” (Singer), 937 Grandmother’s Tale and Selected Stories, The (Narayan), 756 “Grave, The” (Porter), 872 Greene, Graham, 453-460 ;and R. K. Narayan, 753 ;and William Trevor, 998 “Greenleaf” (O’Connor), 784 Grimm Brothers, 87, 461-468, 767, 1133 Grotesques, 1133 ;Sherwood Anderson, 37, 39, 1092 ;Ann Beattie, 97-98 ;Ray Bradbury, 164 ;Raymond Carver, 190 ;Gustave Flaubert, 402 ;Carson McCullers, 641-642, 646 ;Flannery O’Connor, 778 ;Cynthia Ozick, 817 ;Edgar Allan Poe, 859 ;Peter Taylor, 967 “Guests of the Nation” (O’Connor), 789 “Haircut” (Lardner), 599 “Half-Skinned Steer, The” (Proulx), 893 “Hammer of God, The” (Chesterton), 254 “Hammer of God, The” (Clarke), 282 “Hands” (Anderson), 37 “Handsome Is as Handsome Does” (Pritchett), 884 “Happiness” (Lavin), 608 “Happy Death, A” (Lavin), 605 “Harrison Bergeron” (Vonnegut), 1050 Harte, Bret, 469-474 “Harvest, The” (Hempel), 497 “Haunted House, A” (Woolf), 1119 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 223, 475-485, 655, 704 ;and Herman Melville, 705 ;and John Updike, 1029-1030 “Hector Quesadilla Story, The” (Boyle), 155 Hemingway, Ernest, 193, 272, 486-494, 497, 538 ;and Sherwood Anderson, 36 ;and Isaac Babel, 58 ;and Ann Beattie, 97 ;and Morley Callaghan, 173 ;and Walter Van Tilburg Clark, 272 ;and F. Scott Fitzgerald, 388 ;and J. D. Salinger, 911, 913 Hempel, Amy, 495-498 Henry Bech stories (Updike), 1033 Henry, O., 499-504 “Her Table Spread” (Bowen), 138 “Hérodias” (Flaubert), 404 “Heroine, The” (Dinesen), 338 “Hey Sailor, What Ship?” (Olsen), 812 “Higgler, The” (Coppard), 306 High Noon (film), 299 “Hills Like White Elephants” (Hemingway), 488 Him with His Foot in His Mouth, and Other Stories (Bellow), 108 “Hint of an Explanation, The” (Greene), 454 Hoaxes ;Henry James, 538 ;Prosper Mérimée, 713 “Holiday” (Porter), 874 “Holidays” (Kincaid), 579 “Homeland” (Kingsolver), 585 Homeland, and Other Stories (Kingsolver), 584 “Hook” (Clark), 275 “Horla, The” (Maupassant), 700 Horse and Two Goats, and Other Stories, A (Narayan), 755 “Horse Dealer’s Daughter, The” (Lawrence), 615 Horse Feathers (film), 835 Hous of Fame (Chaucer), 207 House on Mango Street, The (Cisneros), 265 “Housebreaker of Shady Hill, The” (Cheever), 225 “How I Became a Holy Mother” (Jhabvala), 552 “How I Finally Lost My Heart” (Lessing), 631 Howards End (film), 550 Howells, William Dean, 318, 429 Hughes, Langston, 505-511 ;and Zora Neale Hurston, 513 “Human Element, The” (Maugham), 692 Hurston, Zora Neale, 512-518, 1056 ;and Alice Walker, 1058, 1060 “Hymeneal” (O’Faoláin), 800 Hyperbole, 1134 “I Am a Fool” (Anderson), 40 I Sing the Body Electric! (Bradbury), 168 “I Stand Here Ironing” (Olsen), 812 “Ideal Craftsman, An” (De la Mare), 330 “Idiots First” (Malamud), 654 “If They Knew Yvonne” (Dubus), 359 Illustrated Man, The (Bradbury), 166 Imagery, 1134 In a Café (Lavin), 608 “In a Café” (Mansfield), 672 “In a Strange Country” (Ellison), 371 “In Another Country” (Hemingway), 489 “In Darkness and Confusion” (Petry), 844 In His Own Country (Callaghan), 177 In Love and Trouble (Walker), 1057 In medias res, 1134 “In the Autumn of the Year” (Oates), 765 “In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried” (Hempel), 496 “In the Forest” (De la Mare), 329 In the Garden of the North American Martyrs (Wolff), 1111 “In the Region of Ice” (Oates), 764 “In the Train” (O’Connor), 790 India, 408, 550-554, 588-597, 723-733, 752-758 “Indian Uprising, The” (Barthelme), 89 “Indian Well, The” (Clark), 274 Initiation stories, 415, 417, 651, 1060, 1134 Innocent Eréndira, and Other Stories (Garcia Márquez), 424 Interior monologues, 143, 380, 437, 791, 811, 991, 1134 “Introverted” Ireland (O’Connor), 793 “Intruder, The” (Gordimer), 448 Irish writers ;Elizabeth Bowen, 136-142 ;James Joyce, 555-564 ;Mary Lavin, 603-610 ;Edna O’Brien, 770-777 ;Frank O’Connor, 788-795 ;Seán O’Faoláin, 796-802 ;Liam O’Flaherty, 803-809 ;William Trevor, 998-1005 Irrealism, 1134 Irving, Washington, 519-525 “Is There Nowhere Else Where We Can Meet?” (Gordimer), 447 “Islands on the Moon” (Kingsolver), 586 Italian writers ;Giovanni Boccaccio, 118-124 ;Luigi Pirandello, 850-856 “Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt” (Gogol), 438 “Ivy Day in the Committee Room” (Joyce), 562 Jackson, Shirley, 526-532 James, Henry, 67, 97, 533-542, 695, 990 ;and Rudyard Kipling, 589 ;and Prosper Mérimée, 714 ;and Cynthia Ozick, 817 ;and Robert Louis Stevenson, 954, 958 ;and James Thurber, 981 ;and Ivan Turgenev, 1007 ;and Edith Wharton, 1084 “Janus” (Beattie), 101 Japan, 717-722 “Jasmine” (Mukherjee), 730 “Je Ne Parle Pas Français” (Mansfield), 673 “Jean Beicke” (Williams), 1105 “Jewbird, The” (Malamud), 655 Jewett, Sarah Orne, 543-549 Jewish writers ;Isaac Babel, 58-65 ;Saul Bellow, 104-111 ;Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, 550-554 ;Bernard Malamud, 649-658 ;Tillie Olsen, 810-815 ;Cynthia Ozick, 816-822 ;Grace Paley, 823-829 ;Isaac Bashevis Singer, 931-940 Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 550-554 “Jockey, The” (MacCullers), 642 “John Redding Goes to Sea” (Hurston), 515 “Jolly Corner, The” (James), 540 “Joy Luck Club, The” (Tan), 963 Joy Luck Club, The (Tan), 962 Joyce, James, 555-564, 916, 1033 ;and Sherwood Anderson, 36 ;and Morley Callaghan, 174 ;and Edna O’Brien, 775 ;and S. J. Perelman, 839 “Judgement Day” (O’Connor), 785 “Judgment, The” (Kafka), 568 Just So Stories (Kipling), 592 Kafka, Franz, 154, 565-575 ;and Nikolai Gogol, 435 “Keela, the Outcast Indian Maiden” (Welty), 1076 Kenya, 333-341 “Kew Gardens” (Woolf), 1119 “Killers, The” (Hemingway), 490 Kincaid, Jamaica, 576-582 King, Stephen, 21 “King Lear of the Steppes” (Turgenev), 1011 “King of the Bingo Game” (Ellison), 370 “King’s Ankus, The” (Kipling), 592 Kingsolver, Barbara, 583-587 Kipling, Rudyard, 588-597 ;and W. Somerset Maugham, 689, 691 Kirkland, Joseph, 429 “Knight’s Tale, The” (Chaucer), 213 Kreutzer Sonata, The (Tolstoy), 994 “Labor Day Dinner” (Munro), 739 “Lady and the Lion, The” (Grimm), 463 “Lagoon, The” (Conrad), 288 “Lame Shall Enter First, The” (O’Connor), 784 “Lappin and Lapinova” (Woolf), 1119 Lardner, Ring, 598-602 “Last Kiss” (Fitzgerald), 394 The Last Lovely City (Adams), 10 “Last Mohican, The” (Malamud), 653 Latino writers ;Isabel Allende, 24-27 ;Sandra Cisneros, 264-270 ;Helena María Viramontes, 1042-1046 Lavin, Mary, 603-610 “Law of Life” (London), 638 Lawley Road (Narayan), 755 Lawrence, D. H., 31, 611-620, 740 ;and Katherine Mansfield, 671 Le Guin, Ursula K., 621-627 “Leaning Tower, The” (Porter), 873 Legend of Good Women, The (Chaucer), 209 “Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The” (Irving), 523 “Legend of St. Julian, Hospitaler, The” (Flaubert), 402 Leitmotif, 662, 1134 Lessing, Doris, 628-635 Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 118 “Lesson, The” (Bambara), 76 “Letter from Home, The” (Kincaid), 579 “Letter to a Young Lady in Paris” (Cortázar), 312 “Life You Save May Be Your Own, The” (O’Connor), 781 “Lifeguard, The” (Beattie), 98 “Like a Winding Sheet” (Petry), 844 “Like Argus of Ancient Times” (London), 639 “Lily’s Party” (Purdy), 901 “Lions, Harts, Leaping Does” (Powers), 879 Literary short stories, 1134 Little Disturbances of Man (Paley), 825 “Little Dog” (Hughes), 506 “Little Farmer, The” (Grimm), 465 “Little Herr Friedemann” (Mann), 661 “Livvie” (Welty), 1077 Local colorists, 1134 ;Kate Chopin, 258 ;Nikolai Gogol, 438 ;Bret Harte, 469 ;O. Henry, 500 ;Sarah Orne Jewett, 543 ;Prosper Mérimée, 714 ;Frank O’Connor, 790 ;Mark Twain, 1016 “Lodging for the Night, A” (Stevenson), 955 London, Jack, 636-640 Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, The (Alexie), 21 “Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner, The” (Sillitoe), 926 Lonely Voice, The (O’Connor), 793 Long After Midnight (Bradbury), 169 “Long Road to Ummera, The” (O’Connor), 791 Lost and Found Stories of Morley Callagham, The (Callaghan), 180 “Lost Battle, The” (Mansfield), 673 “Lottery, The” (Jackson), 529 Love Life (Mason), 683 “Love-o’-Women” (Kipling), 590 Love of a Good Woman, The (Munro), 740 “Lovers of Their Time” (Trevor), 1001 “Love’s Lesson” (O’Brien), 775 “Lucretia Burns” (Garland), 430 Lyotard, Jean-François, 297 Lyric short stories, 304, 1134 McCullers, Carson, 641-648, 1073 Machineries of Joy, The (Bradbury), 168 “Madame Tellier’s Establishment” (Maupassant), 699 “Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland” (MacCullers), 642 “Madwoman, The” (Maupassant), 698 “Magic Barrel, The” (Malamud), 652 Malamud, Bernard, 649-658 Malapropism, 562, 1135 Malgudi Days (Narayan), 753 “Man and Two Women, A” (Lessing), 632 “Man and Wife” (Purdy), 902 “Man Child, The” (Baldwin), 67 “Man from Mars, The” (Atwood), 49 “Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, The” (Twain), 1018 “Man Who Became a Woman, The” (Anderson), 40 Man Who Died, The (Lawrence), 618 “Man Who Lived Underground, The” (Wright), 1125 “Man Without a Temperament, The” (Mansfield), 675 Mann, Thomas, 105, 659-669 ;and Guy de Maupassant, 700 Mansfield, Katherine, 670-679 ;and Conrad Aiken, 16 “Manuscript, The” (Singer), 937 Märchen, 298, 1135 ;Grimm Brothers, 461-468 Mario and the Magician (Mann), 664 “Markheim” (Stevenson), 956 “Martha’s Lady” (Jewett), 547 Martian Chronicles, The (Bradbury), 165 Marxism ;Saul Bellow, 107 ;T. Coraghessan Boyle, 154-155 ;Jack London, 636 ;Richard Wright, 1123-1124 “Mary Postgate” (Kipling), 595 Mason, Bobbie Ann, 680-686 “Master and Man” (Tolstoy), 995 “Master Misery” (Capote), 185 “Matchimanito” (Erdrich), 377 “Mateo Falcone” (Mérimée), 714 “Matter of Chance, A” (Nabokov), 746 Maugham, W. Somerset, 687-694 ;and Robert Louis Stevenson, 958 Maupassant, Guy de, 695-703 ;and Isaac Babel, 64 ;and Frank O’Connor, 792 “May Night, A” (Gogol), 438 “May-Pole of Merrymount, The” (Hawthorne), 479 “Me and Miss Mandible” (Barthelme), 88 Medicine for Melancholy, A (Bradbury), 167 “Medley” (Bambara), 77 “Meeting with Medusa, A” (Clarke), 281 Melville, Herman, 704-711 ;and E. M. Forster, 407 ;and Nathaniel Hawthorne, 476 “Merchant’s Tale, The” (Chaucer), 217 Mérimée, Prosper, 712-716 Metafiction, 1135 ;Donald Barthelme, 93 ;Robert Coover, 297 ;Amy Hempel, 497 ;Henry James, 533, 538 ;Cynthia Ozick, 817 ;Tennessee Williams, 1097 “Metamorphosis, The” (Kafka), 567 Metaphor, 1135 Metonymy, 437, 1135 Mexico, 113, 264, 421, 616, 868 Middleman, and Other Stories, The (Mukherjee), 728 Midnight Magic (Mason), 684 “Migraine Workers, The” (Petry), 847 “Miller’s Tale, The” (Chaucer), 213 “£1,000,000 Bank-Note, The” (Twain), 1017 “Minerva Writes Poems” (Cisneros), 267 Minimalism, 190, 192, 358, 1135 ;Donald Barthelme, 86 ;Ann Beattie, 96-97, 101 ;Raymond Carver, 189, 191 ;Amy Hempel, 495 ;James Joyce, 561 ;Joy Williams, 1090, 1092-1093 “Minister’s Black Veil, The” (Hawthorne), 479 “Miscellany of Characters That Will Not Appear in My Next Novel, A” (Cheever), 221 Mise en abème, 1135 Mishima, Yukio, 717-722 “Miss Brill” (Mansfield), 673 “Miss Holland” (Lavin), 604 “Miss Leonora When Last Seen” (Taylor), 969 “Miss Muriel” (Petry), 845 Miss Muriel, and Other Stories (Petry), 844 Moby Dick (film), 160 Modern short story form, 521, 670, 1135 “Molly’s Dog” (Adams), 8 “Monday or Tuesday” (Woolf), 1118 “Monkey, The” (Dinesen), 334 Monkey Business (film), 835 Monologue, 1135 “Moon Lake” (Welty), 1078 Morley Callaghan’s Stories (Callaghan), 179 Morsberger, Robert, 983 “Mosby's Memoirs” (Bellow), 107 Mosby’s Memoirs, and Other Stories (Bellow), 106 “Moslem Wife, The” (Gallant), 417 “Most Girl Part of You, The” (Hempel), 497 “Moth and the Star, The” (Thurber), 984 “Mother Africa” (Petry), 847 “Moths, The” (Viramontes), 1043 Motif, 1135 “Mountain Tavern, The” (O’Flaherty), 807 Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (film), 550 “Mrs. Bathurst” (Kipling), 593 Mrs. Dalloway party cycle (Woolf), 1120 Mrs. Reinhardt, and Other Stories (O’Brien), 773 “Mud Below, The” (Proulx), 893 Mukherjee, Bharati, 723-733 “Mumu” (Turgenev), 1010 Munro, Alice, 734-742 Munro, Hector Hugh. See Saki, Museums and Women, and Other Stories (Updike), 1034 Music School, The (Updike), 1034 “My Kinsman, Major Molineux” (Hawthorne), 478 “My Mother” (Kincaid), 579 My Name Is Aram (Saroyan), 921 “My Oedipus Complex” (O’Connor), 792 Mystery and detective fiction, 1131 ;Jorge Luis Borges, 130 ;G. K. Chesterton, 250-257 ;Arthur Conan Doyle, 348-357 ;Gabriel García Márquez, 424 ;Henry James, 540 ;Edgar Allan Poe, 857-866 ;Dylan Thomas, 973 Myth, 1135 Nabokov, Vladimir, 681, 743-751 Narayan, R. K., 752-758 Narrative, 1136 Narrative persona, 1136 Narratology, 1136 Narrator, 1136 Native American writers ;Sherman Alexie, 20-23 ;Louise Erdrich, 374-378 ;Barbara Kingsolver, 583-587 Navarre, Marguerite de, 118 “Necessary Knocking on the Door, The” (Petry), 846 “Neighbor Rosicky” (Cather), 201 “Neighbors” (Carver), 190 “Neighbors” (Viramontes), 1044 “Never Marry a Mexican” (Cisneros), 268 “Nevsky Prospect” (Gogol), 440 “New Café, The” (Lessing), 633 “New Mirror, The” (Petry), 845 “New Music, The” (Barthelme), 93 New World, The (Banks), 81 New Zealand, 670-679 New Zealand Stories (Mansfield), 675 “Nice Day at School” (Trevor), 1000 Nigeria, 1-6 Night at the Movies, A (Coover), 299 Night in Question, The (Wolff), 1113 “Night of the Iguana, The” (Williams), 1096 “Nightingale, The” (Andersen), 32 Nikolai Gogol ;and Fyodor Dostoevski, 188 “Nine Billion Names of God, The” (Clarke), 280 “Nineteen Fifty-Five” (Walker), 1061 Nixon, Richard M., 295 No One Writes to the Colonel (Garcia Márquez), 423 “Noon Wine” (Porter), 871 Norris, Frank, 429 “Nose, The” (Gogol), 441 “Nostalgia” (Mukherjee), 727 “Notes from a Lady at a Dinner Party” (Malamud), 656 Novel, 1136 Novelette, 1136 Novella, 1136 Now That April’s Here, and Other Stories (Callaghan), 177 “Nun’s Priest’s Tale, The” (Chaucer), 215 “O Yes” (Olsen), 812 “O Youth and Beauty” (Cheever), 224 Oates, Joyce Carol, 7, 759-769 O’Brien, Edna, 770-777 “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, An” (Bierce), 113 O’Connor, Flannery, 359, 778-787 ;and Carson McCullers, 641 ;and Katherine Anne Porter, 873 O’Connor, Frank, 603, 788-795 ;and A. E. Coppard, 304 October Country, The (Bradbury), 167 “Odour of Chrysanthemums” (Lawrence), 613 O’Faoláin, Seán, 788-789, 796-802 “Office Romances” (Trevor), 1001 O’Flaherty, Liam, 803-809 Ojos de perro azul (Garcia Márquez), 422 “Old Doc Rivers” (Williams), 1104 “Old Forest, The” (Taylor), 970 “Old Lady, The” (Jhabvala), 551 “Old Master, The” (O’Faoláin), 797 “Old Mortality” (Porter), 870 Olsen, Tillie, 810-815 “On Saturday Afternoon” (Sillitoe), 926 “On the Edge of the Cliff” (Pritchett), 888 “One Arm” (Williams), 1099 “One Holy Night” (Cisneros), 268 “£1,000,000 Bank-Note, The” (Twain), 1017 “Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, The” (LeGuin), 624 “Only Rose, The” (Jewett), 546 “Open Boat, The” (Crane), 320 Open to the Public: New and Collected Stories (Spark), 945 “Open Window, The” (Saki), 908 Oral tale, 1136 Oral tradition, 243, 305, 462, 847, 1016, 1136 “Orchards, The” (Thomas), 978 “Orgy, The” (De la Mare), 329 “Other Kingdom” (Forster), 410 “Other Paris, The” (Gallant), 414 “Our Story Begins” (Wolff), 1111 “Outcasts of Poker Flat, The” (Harte), 471 “Outpost of Progress, An” (Conrad), 287 “Overcoat, The” (Gogol), 440 “Overcoat II, The” (Boyle), 154 Ozick, Cynthia, 816-822 “Pagan Rabbi, The” (Ozick), 817 “Pair of Tickets, A” (Tan), 964 “Pale Horse, Pale Rider” (Porter), 871 Paley, Grace, 823-829 Parables, 38, 1136 ;Russell Banks, 81 ;Bret Harte, 472 ;Amy Hempel, 495 ;Shirley Jackson, 530 ;Franz Kafka, 570 ;Bernard Malamud, 655 ;Herman Melville, 709 ;Saki, 906 ;Leo Tolstoy, 993 ;Tennessee Williams, 1099 “Paradise Lounge, The” (Trevor), 1003 Paradox, 1136 “Park City” (Beattie), 102 Parker, Dorothy, 830-834 ;and F. Scott Fitzgerald, 389 “Parker’s Back” (O’Connor), 785 Parlement of Foules (Chaucer), 208 Parodu, 1136 Parody ;Sherman Alexie, 21 ;T. Coraghessan Boyle, 154, 158 ;Geoffrey Chaucer, 209, 214, 216 ;Anton Chekhov, 233 ;Charles Waddell Chesnutt, 243 ;Robert Coover, 299 ;Gustave Flaubert, 401-402 ;Gabriel García Márquez, 424 ;Washington Irving, 520 ;S. J. Perelman, 836, 839 ;Ann Petry, 848 ;Edgar Allan Poe, 859 ;James Thurber, 981 ;Mark Twain, 1019 ;John Updike, 1033 “Passing of Grandison, The” (Chesnutt), 246 “Past One at Rooney’s” (Henry), 501 Pastures of Heaven, The (Steinbeck), 950 “Patricia, Edith and Arnold” (Thomas), 976 “Patriot, The” (O’Faoláin), 801 “Patriotism” (Mishima), 720 “Paul’s Case” (Cather), 200 “Pawnbroker’s Wife, The” (Spark), 943 “Peace of Utrecht, The” (Munro), 736 “Peaches, The” (Thomas), 975 “People Who Don’t Know the Answers” (Tyler), 1026 Perelman, S. J., 835-840 “Perfect Day for Bananafish, A” (Salinger), 914 Periodical essay/sketch, 1137 Personification, 1137 Peru, 24-27 Petry, Ann, 841-849 “Phantom ‘Rickshaw, The” (Kipling), 591 “Philosopher, The” (Anderson), 37 “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote“ (Borges), 131 Pigeon Feathers, and Other Stories (Updike), 1031 “Pillar of Salt” (Jackson), 529 Pirandello, Luigi, 695, 850-856 “Pit Strike” (Sillitoe), 928 Plot, 1137 “Po’ Sandy” (Chesnutt), 244 Poe, Edgar Allan, 192, 483, 655, 857-866 ;and Arthur Conan Doyle, 351 Point of view, 1137 “Polarities” (Atwood), 51 Polish writers ;Joseph Conrad, 285-294 ;Isaac Bashevis Singer, 931-940 “Pomegranate Trees” (Saroyan), 922 “Poor Franzi” (Gallant), 416 “Poor Thing, The” (Powers), 879 “Portable Phonograph, The” (Clark), 273 Porter, Katherine Anne, 867-875, 1074 Porter, William Sydney. See Henry, O. “Portobello Road, The” (Spark), 944 “Post Office, The” (O’Flaherty), 808 Postcolonial, 1137 Postmodernism, 297, 1137 ;Sherman Alexie, 21 ;Donald Barthelme, 86, 88-89, 91 ;Robert Coover, 295 ;Andre Dubus, 358 ;Stuart Dybek, 365 ;Barbara Kingsolver, 585 ;Carson McCullers, 641 ;Flannery O’Connor, 780 ;Cynthia Ozick, 817 Powers, J. F., 876-880 “Predicament, A” (Callaghan), 176 “Prelude” (Mansfield), 676 “Pretty Girl, The” (Dubus), 360 Pricksongs and Descants (Coover), 298 “Priest of Shiga Temple and His Love, The” (Mishima), 720 “Prime Leaf” (Warren), 1068 “Prince of Darkness” (Powers), 877 “Princess, The” (Lawrence), 617 Pritchett, V. S., 881-890 Problems, and Other Stories (Updike), 1035 “Professor” (Hughes), 507 “Prospect of the Sea, A” (Thomas), 977 Protagonist, 1137 Proulx, E. Annie, 891-895 “Prussian Officer, The” (Lawrence), 614 “Public Pool, A” (Adams), 8 Puck of Pook’s Hill (Kipling), 593 Puns, 138, 500, 614, 625, 653, 1033, 1137 Purdy, James, 896-904 “Purloined Letter, The” (Poe), 861 Puttermesser Papers, The (Ozick), 820 Quicker than the Eye (Bradbury), 169 “Raid, The” (Tolstoy), 990 “Rain” (Maugham), 691 “Ransom of Red Chief, The” (Henry), 502 “Rappaccini’s Daughter” (Hawthorne), 481 “Rapture” (Purdy), 901 “Rapunzel” (Grimm), 464 “Raven’s Wing” (Oates), 766 “Raymond’s Run” (Bambara), 76 “Razor, The” (Nabokov), 745 “Real Thing, The” (James), 536 Realism, 1137 “Red” (Maugham), 689 Red Badge of Courage, The (Crane), 318 “Red Barbara” (O’Flaherty), 806 Red Cavalry (Babel), 61 “Red Clowns” (Cisneros), 267 “Red Convertible, The” (Erdrich), 375 “Red-Headed League, The” (Doyle), 351 “Red Petticoat, The” (O’Flaherty), 806 “Reeve’s Tale, The” (Chaucer), 214 “Rembrandt, The” (Wharton), 1084 “Rembrandt’s Hat” (Malamud), 655 “Rescue Party” (Clarke), 279 “Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin, The” (Williams), 1097 “Return of a Private, The” (Garland), 432 Returning (O’Brien), 774 “Reunion, The” (Angelou), 45 “Revelation” (O’Connor), 785 “Revenge of Hannah Kemhuff, The” (Walker), 1059 Rhetorical devices, 462, 1137 “Rich Boy, The” (Fitzgerald), 391 “Riddle, The” (De la Mare), 328 “Rip Van Winkle” (Irving), 522 “Road from Colonus, The” (Forster), 410 Roads of Destiny (Henry), 501 “Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning” (Barthelme), 90 “Roger Malvin’s Burial” (Hawthorne), 477 Rogue literature, 1137 Romance, 1138 Romanticism, 1138 Room with a View, A (film), 550 Roosevelt, Franklin D., 659 “Rosa” (Ozick), 819 “Rose for Emily, A” (Faulkner), 380 “Roselily” (Walker), 1058 “Rothschild’s Fiddle” (Chekhov), 237 “Rules of the Game” (Tan), 963 Russian writers ;Isaac Babel, 58-65 ;Anton Chekhov, 231-241 ;Fyodor Dostoevski, 342-347 ;Nikolai Gogol, 435-443 ;Vladimir Nabokov, 743-751 ;Leo Tolstoy, 987-997 ;Ivan Turgenev, 1006-1014 “Sabbatha and Solitude” (Williams), 1098 “Sailor-Boy’s Tale, The” (Dinesen), 338 “Saint Marie” (Erdrich), 376 St. Mawr (Lawrence), 617 Saki, 905-909 Salinger, J. D., 910-918 Same Door, The (Updike), 1031 Saroyan, William, 190, 919-924 Satire, 1138 ;Hans Christian Andersen, 32 ;Margaret Atwood, 49-50 ;T. Coraghessan Boyle, 153-156 ;John Cheever, 227 ;Anton Chekhov, 233 ;Gabriel García Márquez, 424 ;Nikolai Gogol, 437 ;Bret Harte, 469 ;Washington Irving, 519 ;Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, 551 ;James Joyce, 557, 559, 562 ;Ring Lardner, 600 ;Katherine Mansfield, 672, 674 ;R. K. Narayan, 753 ;Joyce Carol Oates, 763 ;Flannery O’Connor, 782 ;Liam O’Flaherty, 807 ;Dorothy Parker, 830, 833 ;S. J. Perelman, 836 ;Luigi Pirandello, 854 ;Edgar Allan Poe, 857 ;J. F. Powers, 877 ;V. S. Pritchett, 884 ;James Purdy, 897 ;Saki, 905-906 ;John Steinbeck, 949 ;Leo Tolstoy, 989 ;Anne Tyler, 1023 ;Kurt Vonnegut, 1048 “Say Could That Lad Be I” (Lavin), 606 “Scandal in Bohemia, A” (Doyle), 351 “Scandalous Woman, A” (O’Brien), 772 “Schloimele” (Singer), 938 Science fiction ;Ray Bradbury, 160-172 ;Walter Van Tilburg Clark, 273 ;Arthur C. Clarke, 277-284 ;E. M. Forster, 408 ;Nathaniel Hawthorne, 482 ;Ursula K. Le Guin, 621-627 ;Jack London, 636 ;Edgar Allan Poe, 859 ;Kurt Vonnegut, 1047-1055 “Scoundrel, The” (Nabokov), 747 “Sculptor’s Funeral, The” (Cather), 199 Searching for Survivors (Banks), 81 Sebastopol (Tolstoy), 990 “Secret Garden, The” (Chesterton), 253 “Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The” (Thurber), 983 “Secret of Father Brown, The” (Chesterton), 252 “Secret Sharer, The” (Conrad), 292 “Senility” (Lavin), 607 “Sense of Humour” (Pritchett), 884 “Sentence” (Barthelme), 93 “Sentinel, The” (Clarke), 279 “Seraph and the Zambesi, The” (Spark), 942 Setting, 1138 “Seymour: An Introduction” and “Hapworth 16, 1924” (Salinger), 917 “Shadow, The” (Andersen), 30 Shaw, George Bernard, 429 ;and G. K. Chesterton, 250 ;and H. G. Wells, 251 “Shawl, The” (Ozick), 819 Shawn, William, 577 Shelley, Mary, 115, 942 Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 984 Shiloh, and Other Stories (Mason), 681 “Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, The” (Hemingway), 491 “Shower of Gold, A” (Barthelme), 89 “Sick Call, A” (Callaghan), 178 “Significant Moments in the Life of My Mother” (Atwood), 53 “Signora Frola and Her Son-in-Law, Signor Ponza” (Pirandello), 854 “Signs and Symbols” (Nabokov), 749 “Silent Snow, Secret Snow” (Aiken), 13 Sillitoe, Alan, 925-930 “Silver Dish, A” (Bellow), 109 Simile, 1138 “Simple Heart, A” (Flaubert), 399 Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 931-940 “Singing Bone, The” (Grimm), 466 “Sins of the Third Age” (Gordimer), 450 “Six Feet of the Country” (Gordimer), 447 “Six Soldiers of Fortune” (Grimm), 462 Six Stories Written in the First Person Singular (Maugham), 691 Sixty-three: Dream Palace (Purdy), 901 “Skeleton, The” (Pritchett), 886 Sketch, 1138 “Sleep Tight” (Purdy), 899 “Slippage” (Updike), 1038 Smith, Rosamond. See Oates, Joyce Carol Smoke Signals (film), 20, 22 “Smuggler, The” (Singer), 938 “Snapshots” (Viramontes), 1043 “Snow” (Beattie), 100 “Snow Queen, The” (Andersen), 29 “Snow White” (Grimm), 465 “Snows of Kilimanjaro, The” (Hemingway), 490 “Soldier’s Embrace, A” (Gordimer), 448 “Soldier’s Home” (Hemingway), 490 “Solid Objects” (Woolf), 1119 “Some Like Them Cold” (Lardner), 600 “Some of These Days” (Purdy), 901 Somers, Jane. See Lessing, Doris Something Out There (Gordimer), 449 “Song of Triumphant Love, The” (Turgenev), 1012 “Sonny’s Blues” (Baldwin), 69 “Sophistication” (Anderson), 39 “Sorrow-Acre” (Dinesen), 337 “Sorry Fugu” (Boyle), 156 “Source” (Walker), 1062 “South, The” (Borges), 132 South Africa, 444-452 South American writers ;Isabel Allende, 24-27 ;Jorge Luis Borges, 125-135 ;Julio Cortázar, 310-316 ;Gabriel García Márquez, 420-427 Southern Renaissance, 380, 518 Southern, Terry, 835 Spark, Muriel, 941-947 “Sparrows” (Lessing), 633 “Spectre Bridegroom, The” (Irving), 521 “Spinoza of Market Street, The” (Singer), 936 “Spinster’s Tale, A” (Taylor), 968 Sportsman’s Sketches, A (Turgenev), 1008 “Spring in Fialta” (Nabokov), 748 “Spunk” (Hurston), 516 “Sredni Vashtar” (Saki), 907 “Star, The” (Clarke), 280 “Star, The” (Wells), 280 “Steady Going Up” (Angelou), 44 Steinbeck, John, 21, 584, 948-953 ;and Raymond Carver, 194 “Steppe, The” (Chekhov), 235 Stevenson, Robert Louis, 954-960 ;and W. Somerset Maugham, 689-690 “Still Moment, A” (Welty), 1078 Stories of Eva Luna, The (Allende), 25 Stories of Ray Bradbury, The (Bradbury), 169 “Storm, The” (Chopin), 261 “Storms” (Lessing), 633 “Story by Maupassant, A” (O’Connor), 792 Story line, 1138 “Story of an Hour, The” (Chopin), 259 “Strange Moonlight” (Aiken), 15 Strange Pilgrims (Garcia Márquez), 425 Stream of consciousness, 143, 1116, 1138 “Strength of God, The” (Anderson), 38 “Strider” (Tolstoy), 992 Structuralism, 1138 Style, 1138 Success Stories (Banks), 83 “Sugawn Chair, The” (O’Faoláin), 799 “Summer Night” (Bowen), 137 “Summer of the Beautiful White Horse, The” (Saroyan), 922 “Summer Tidings” (Purdy), 901 “Sunlight and Shadow” (Pirandello), 852 “Sweat” (Hurston), 516 “Swimmer, The” (Cheever), 227 T. C. Boyle Stories (Boyle), 157 “Taibele and Her Demon” (Singer), 935 “Taking Care” (Williams), 1091 Tale, 1139 “Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich, The” (Gogol), 439 Tales of Odessa (Babel), 60 Tall tales, 1139 ;Donald Barthelme, 90 ;Ambrose Bierce, 112 ;Arthur C. Clarke, 278 ;William Faulkner, 386 ;O. Henry, 502 ;S. J. Perelman, 837 ;Mark Twain, 1016 “Tamurlane” (Mukherjee), 727 Tan, Amy, 961-965 Taylor, Peter, 966-972 “Teenage Wasteland” (Tyler), 1026 “Telephone Call, A” (Parker), 831 “Tell Me a Riddle” (Olsen), 813 “Tell Me Yes or No” (Munro), 738 “Tenant, The” (Mukherjee), 731 “Thank You M’am” (Hughes), 507 “Theft” (Porter), 870 “They” (Kipling), 595 “Thistledown” (Aiken), 16 Thomas, Dylan, 973-980 Thompson, Hunter, 835 “Those Who Don't” (Cisneros), 266 “Three Sisters, The” (Cisneros), 267 Thurber, James, 836, 981-986 “To Build a Fire” (London), 637 “To Hell with Dying” (Walker), 1060 “To See You Again” (Adams), 9 “Today Will Be a Quiet Day” (Hempel), 496 Tolstoy, Leo, 92, 987-997 ;and Anton Chekhov, 235 ;and Ivan Turgenev, 1007 “Tom” (Lavin), 606 “Tomorrow—Fairly Cloudy” (Perelman), 837 Tone, 1139 Tonio Kröger (Mann), 662 Toynbee Convector, The (Bradbury), 169 Trailerpark (Banks), 82 “Transaction” (Updike), 1036 Transcendentalism, 224, 476 Transposed Heads, The (Mann), 665 “Tree, The” (Thomas), 978 “Tree. A Rock. A Cloud, A” (MacCullers), 644 “Tree of Night, A” (Capote), 183 Trembling of a Leaf, The (Maugham), 688 Trevor, William, 604, 998-1005 ;and Mary Lavin, 609 “Trimmed Lamp, The” (Henry), 501 Troilus and Criseyde (Chaucer), 209 Trope, 1139 “True Story, A” (Twain), 1016 “Trust Me” (Updike), 1037 Tumble Home: A Novella and Short Stories (Hempel), 497 Turgenev, Ivan, 1006-1014 ;and Guy de Maupassant, 695 ;and V. S. Pritchett, 886 “Turkey, The” (O’Connor), 781 Twain, Mark, 1015-1021 ;and Russell Banks, 80 ;and Charles Waddell Chesnutt, 242 ;and Bret Harte, 469 ;and James Thurber, 984 “Two Corpses Go Dancing” (Singer), 934 “Two Hussars” (Tolstoy), 991 “Two Kinds” (Tan), 964 “Two Lovely Beasts” (O’Flaherty), 806 “Two Old Women and a Young One” (Lessing), 633 “Two Ships” (Boyle), 155 2001: A Space Odyssey (film), 277 Tyler, Anne, 1022-1028 ;and Carson McCullers, 641 “Typhoon” (Conrad), 290 “Uncle Ben’s Choice” (Achebe), 3 “Uncle Ernest” (Sillitoe), 926 “Uncle Valentine” (Cather), 201 “Uncle Wellington’s Wives” (Chesnutt), 247 “Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut” (Salinger), 913 Under the Banyan Tree, and Other Stories (Narayan), 755 “Under the Lion’s Paw” (Garland), 429 “Unearthing Suite” (Atwood), 53 Updike, John, 7, 361, 893, 1029-1041 ;and R. K. Narayan, 756 “Valiant Woman, The” (Powers), 878 Vargas Llosa, Mario, 422 “Vengeful Creditor” (Achebe), 2 Venus of Ille, The (Mérimée), 715 Verbal Wit (Perelman), 838 Verisimilitude, 1139 “Views of My Father Weeping” (Barthelme), 91 Vignettes, 1139 ;Sherwood Anderson, 36 ;Raymond Carver, 190-191 ;Sandra Cisneros, 265 ;O. Henry, 502 ;R. K. Narayan, 755 ;Isaac Bashevis Singer, 938 ;Muriel Spark, 945 ;William Trevor, 1000 ;Mark Twain, 1018 ;Robert Penn Warren, 1069 “Vintage Thunderbird, A” (Beattie), 98 Viramontes, Helena María, 1042-1046 “Visit, The” (Jackson), 528 “Visitor, The” (Thomas), 978 “Viy” (Gogol), 439 Vonnegut, Kurt, 1047-1055 Walker, Alice, 1056-1065 “Waltz, The” (Parker), 831 Warren, Robert Penn, 1066-1072, 1074 “Wedding Day” (Boyle), 144 “Wedding Dress, A” (Callaghan), 176 “Welcome to the Monkey House” (Vonnegut), 1049 Wells, H. G., 251, 280 Welty, Eudora, 734, 1023, 1073-1082 Wharton, Edith, 1083-1089 “What I Have Been Doing Lately” (Kincaid), 579 What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Carver), 191 “What You Hear from ‘Em?” (Taylor), 968 “When My Girl Comes Home” (Pritchett), 885 “When the Light Gets Green” (Warren), 1067 “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” (Oates), 764-765, 836 “Where I’m Calling From” (Carver), 193 “Where Is the Voice Coming From?” (Welty), 1080 White Deer, The (Thurber), 985 “White Heron, A” (Jewett), 545 “White Horses of Vienna, The” (Boyle), 147 “White Nights” (Dostoevski), 344 “White Quail, The” (Steinbeck), 952 “Whole World Knows, The” (Welty), 1079 “Why Can’t They Tell You Why?” (Purdy), 899 “Why Don’t You Dance?” (Carver), 191 “Why I Live at the P.O.” (Welty), 1075 “Wide Net, The” (Welty), 1076 “Wife of Bath’s Tale, The” (Chaucer), 216 “Wife of His Youth, The” (Chesnutt), 246 “Wife of Nashville, A” (Taylor), 969 “Wife’s Story, A” (Mukherjee), 731 “Wife-Wooing” (Updike), 1033 Wilderness Tips (Atwood), 53 Will You Always Love Me? (Oates), 767 Williams, Joy, 1090-1094 Williams, Tennessee, 1095-1102 Williams, William Carlos, 1103-1108 “Windy Day at the Reservoir” (Beattie), 101 “Winter Dreams” (Fitzgerald), 391 “Winter Night” (Boyle), 149 ”Winter: 1978” (Beattie), 99 “Wish House, The” (Kipling), 591 Without a Hero (Boyle), 157 “Witness, The” (Petry), 846 Wolfe, Thomas, 81 Wolfe, Tom, 835 Wolff, Tobias, 1109-1115 “Woman Hollering Creek” (Cisneros), 269 Woman Hollering Creek, and Other Stories (Cisneros), 267 “Woman Who Rode Away, The” (Lawrence), 617 “Wonderful Glass, The” (Grimm), 464 Woolf, Virginia, 1116-1122 ;and Mary Lavin, 604 ;and Katherine Mansfield, 671 ;and Ivan Turgenev, 1006 “World According to Hsü, The” (Mukherjee), 726 “Worn Path, A” (Welty), 1075 Wright, Richard, 842, 1123-1128 ;and James Baldwin, 66 ;and Ralph Ellison, 368 ;and Carson McCullers, 642 “Xuela” (Kincaid), 580 Yarns, 1016, 1139 Yentl (film), 933, 938 “You Are What You Own” (Adams), 9 You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down (Walker), 1061 “You May Safely Gaze” (Purdy), 902 “You Touched Me” (Lawrence), 615 “Young Goodman Brown” (Hawthorne), 223, 480 “Young Man with the Carnation, The” (Dinesen), 336 “Your Obituary, Well Written” (Aiken), 16 “Your Place Is Empty” (Tyler), 1024 “Youth” (Conrad), 288 “Zeitl and Rickel” (Singer), 936 Zola, Émile, 86 |
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