Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The bloody chamber / Angela Carter -- Blues ain't no mockin bird / Toni Cade Bambara -- Disorder and early sorrow / Thomas Mann -- The guest / Albert Camus -- In the garden of the North American martyrs / Tobias Wolff -- Lamb to the slaughter / Roald Dahl -- Mrs. Spring Fragrance / Sui Sin Far -- The necklace / Guy de Maupassant -- The new dress / Virginia Woolf -- The open boat / Stephen Crane -- Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote / Jorge Luis Borges -- The revolt of 'Mother' / Mary Wilkins Freeman -- Shooting an elephant / George Orwell -- Slave on the block / Langston Hughes -- Sophistication / Sherwood Anderson -- Souvenir / Jayne Anne Phillips -- The star / Arthur C. Clarke -- The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett -- Yellow Woman / Leslie Marmon Silko.
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