American short fiction : readings and criticism /

Table of Contents: “…Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving ; Ligeia / Edgar Allan Poe ; My kinsman, Major Molineux / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; Bartleby the scrivener / Herman Melville ; The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain ; The real thing / Henry James ; The blue hotel / Stephen Crane ; To build a fire / Jack London ; An occurrence at Owl Creek bridge / Ambrose Bierce ; Death in the woods / Sherwood Anderson ; The killers / Ernest Hemingway ; A rose for Emily / William Faulkner ; Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter ; Ways and means / Langston Hughes ; A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor ; The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud ; A & P / John Updike -- Part two, Matching stories for comparison and independent analysis. …”