Contents:Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe -- Bartleby, the Scrivener / Herman Melville -- The Necklace / Guy de Maupassant -- The Story of an Hour / Kate Chopin -- The Lady with the Dog / Anton Chekhov -- The Yellow Wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The Open Boat / Stephen Crane -- Paul's Case / Willa Cather -- Araby / James Joyce -- The Metamorphosis / Franz Kafka -- The Horse Dealer's Daughter / D.H. Lawrence -- The Jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter -- Winter Dreams / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Barn Burning / William Faulkner -- Hills like White Elephants / Ernest Hemingway -- The Chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck -- A Worn Path / Eudora Welty -- I Stand Here Ironing / Tillie Olsen -- Battle Royal / Ralph Ellison -- A Conversation with my Father / Grace Paley -- Sonny's Blues / James Baldwin -- Everything That Rises Must Converge / Flannery O'Connor -- The Chair Carrier / Yusuf Idris -- A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- How I met My Husband / Alice Munro -- A & P / John Updike -- Woman from America / Bessie Head -- Cathedral / Raymond Carver -- Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? / Joyce Carol Oates -- The Lesson / Toni Cade Bambara -- Everyday Use / Alice Walker -- The Things They Carried / Tim O'Brien -- Girl / Jamaica Kincaid -- The Seventh Man / Haruki Murakami -- Two Kinds / Amy Tan -- The House on Mango Street / Sandra Cisneros -- How to Become a Writer / Lorrie Moore -- The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven / Sherman Alexie -- Interpreter of Maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri. Biographical Notes on the Authors. Glossary of Literary Terms.