Modern short stories: the uses of imagination

Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad

Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald

Artists in uniform / Mary McCarthy A story / Dylan Thomas My Oedipus complex / Frank O'Connor The grave / Katherine Anne Porter

A sense of shelter / John Updike

The day Stalin died / Doris Lessing

The artificial nigger / Flannery O'Connor

The tone of time / Henry James

The jolly corner / Henry James

The lesson of the master / Henry James

Roman fever / Edith Wharton

The gambler, the nun, and the radio / Ernest Hemingway

A couple of hamburgers / James Thurber

Defender of the faith / Philip Roth

A losing game / J. F. Powers

Beggar my neighbor / Dan Jacobson

The waiting / James Agee

Odor of chrysanthemums / D. H. Lawrence

The shadow in the rose garden / D. H. Lawrence

The white stocking / D. H. Lawrence

Pnin / Vladimir Nabokov

The egg / Sherwood Anderson

Araby / James Joyce

Her first ball / Katherine Mansfield

Take pity / Bernard Malamud

The gardener / Rudyard Kipling

The fire and the hearth / William Faulkner

Delta autumn / William Faulkner

Raid / William Faulkner

When the light gets green / Robert Penn Warren

Old Red / Caroline Gordon

A worn path / Eudora Welty

Mister McGregor / Andrew Lytle

What you hear from 'Em? / Peter Taylor

Uncle Grant / Reynolds Price.