Short Stories

We’re here to help unpack the themes, motifs, and main ideas behind some of the greatest work of short fiction, to help you understand the stories of Faulkner, Hemingway, O’Connor, and more.

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A

Anderson, Sherwood
- A Death in the Woods

B

Baldwin, James
- Sonny’s Blues
Bierce, Ambrose
- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

C

Carver, Raymond
- Cathedral
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Cather, Willa
- Paul’s Case: A Study in Temperament
Cheever, John
- The Swimmer
Chekhov, Anton
- Chekhov Stories
Chopin, Kate
- The Story of an Hour
Connell, Richard
- The Most Dangerous Game
CortÃ¡zar, Julio
- Continuity of Parks
Crane, Stephen
- The Open Boat

D

Doyle, Arthur Conan
- The Red-Headed League

F

G

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
- The Yellow Wallpaper

H

Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- The Birthmark
- Young Goodman Brown
Hemingway, Ernest
- A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
- Hills Like White Elephants

J

Jackson, Shirley
- The Lottery
Jacobs, W. W.
- The Monkey’s Paw
Joyce, James
- Dubliners

K

Kafka, Franz
- A Hunger Artist
- The Metamorphosis
Kincaid, Jamaica
- Girl
King, Stephen
- Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption

L

Lahiri, Jhumpa
- Interpreter of Maladies
Lawrence, D. H.
- Odour of Chrysanthemums

M

MÃ¡rquez, Gabriel GarcÃa
- A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Mason, Bobbie Ann
- Shiloh
Maupassant, Guy de
- The Necklace
Melville, Herman
- Melville Stories
Murakami, Haruki
- Super-Frog Saves Tokyo

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O’Connor, Flannery
- A Good Man Is Hard to Find
- Everything That Rises Must Converge
Oates, Joyce Carol
- Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Olsen, Tillie
- I Stand Here Ironing
O’Brien, Tim
- The Things They Carried

P

Poe, Edgar Allan
- Poe’s Short Stories
Porter, Katherine Ann
- The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Proulx, Annie
- Brokeback Mountain

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U

Updike, John
- A&P

V

Vonnegut, Kurt
- Harrison Bergeron

W

Walker, Alice
- Everyday Use
Welty, Eudora
- Why I Live at the P.O.
Wright, Richard
- The Man Who Was Almost a Man