Each entry contains author biography, plot summary, characters, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.
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A & P / John Updike -- Axolotl / Julio Cortazar -- Bartleby the scrivener, a tale of wall street / Herman Melville -- A conservation with my father / Grace Paley -- The door in the wall / H. G. Wells -- Flight / John Steinbeck -- In the penal colony / Franz Kafka -- The Japanese quince / John Galsworthy -- A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell - - The lady, or the tiger? / Frank R. Stockton -- The man who lived underground / Richard Wright -- On discovery / Maxine Hong Kingston -- The outcasts of poker flat / Bret Harte -- Rape fantasies / Margaret Atwood -- Robert Kennedy saved from drowning / Donald Barthelme -- The shawl / Cynthia Ozick -- Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Sorrow-Acre / Isak Dinesen -- Vengeful creditor / Chinua Achebe -- Where I'm calling from / Raymond Carver -- Woman hollering creek / Sandra Cisneros.