Description: Introduction. From The Thousand and One Nights: The Story of the Merchant and the Jinni. Chinua Achebe (Nigeria): Girls at War. Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana): Two Sisters. Akutagawa Ryunosuke (Japan): Within a Grove. Woody Allen (United States): The Kugelmass Episode. Isabel Allende (Chile): And of Clay Are We Created. Hanan Al-Shaykh (Lebanon): The Unseeing Eye. Rudolfo Anaya (United States): B. Traven is Alive and Well in Cuernavaca. Sherwood Anderson (United States): Death in the Woods. Margaret Atwood (Canada): Dancing Girls. Isaac Babel (Russia): My First Goose. Barbaraneely (United States): Spilled Salt. Ann Beattie (United States): The Burning House. J. Bernlef (Netherlands): The Black Dog. Ambrose Bierce (United States): Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. Heinrich Bll (Germany): The Laugher. Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina): Death and the Compass. Dino Buzzati (Italy): The Falling Girl. Italo Calvino (Italy): A Sign in Space. Albert Camus (Algeria/France): The Guest. Raymond Carver (United States): Where I''m Calling From. Willa Cather (United States): Paul''s Case. John Cheever (United States): The Swimmer. Anton Chekhov (Russia): The Kiss. Gabrielle-Sidonie Colette (France): The Seamstress. Joseph Conrad (Poland/England): Amy Foster. Stephen Crane (United States): The Open Boat. Isak Dinesen (Denmark): The Sailor-Boy''s Tale. Birago Diop (Senegal): Sarzan. Jos Donoso (Chile): Paseo. Margareta Ekstrm (Sweden): The Night Between the Second and the Third. Ralph Ellison (United States): Flying Home. Louise Erdrich (United States): Love Medicine. William Faulkner (United States): A Rose for Emily. Feng Jicai (China): The Street-Sweeping Show. F. Scott Fitzgerald (United States): Babylon Revisited. Gustave Flaubert (France): The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller. Carlos Fuentes (Mexico): The Doll Queen. Gabriel Garci Mrquez (Colombia): Balthazar''s Marvelous Afternoon. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (United States): The Yellow Wallpaper. Natalia Ginzburg (Italy): The Mother. Susan Glaspell (United States): A Jury of Her Peers. Nikolai Gogol (Russia): The Overcoat. Nadine Gordimer (South Africa): A Soldier''s Embrace. Judy Grahn (United States): Boys at the Rodeo. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (Germany): Karl Katz. Nathaniel Hawthorne (United States): The Birthmark. Bessie Head (South Africa/Botswana): The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses. Ernest Hemingway (United States): The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber. Langston Hughes (United States): Thank You, Ma''am. Zorn Neale Hurston (United States): The Gilded Six-Bits. Shirley Jackson (United States): The Lottery. Svava Jakobsdttir (Iceland): A Story for Children. Henry James (United States/England): The Real Thing. Sarah Orne Jewett (United States): A White Heron. Elizabeth Jolley (England/Australia): Another Holiday for the Prince. James Joyce (Ireland): Eveline. Franz Kafka (Czechoslovakia): The Metamorphosis. Ghassan Kanafani (Palestine): A Hand in the Grave. Kanai Mieko (Japan): Platonic Love. John Kasaipwalova (Papua New Guinea): Betel Nut is Bad Magic for Airplanes. Khamsing Srinawk (Thailand): The Gold-Legged Frog. Pr Lagerkvist (Sweden): The Children''s Campaign. Margaret Laurence (Canada): A Bird in the House. Mary Lavin (Ireland): Happiness. D.H. Lawrence (England): Tickets, Please. Ursula K. Le Guin (United States): Sur. Doris Lessing (Rhodesia/England): A Woman on the Roof. Catherine Lim (Singapore): Or Else, the Lightning God. Lu Xun (China): The Story of Hair. Arnost Lustig (Czechoslovakia/ United States): The Lemon. Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt): Half a Day. Bernard Malamud (United States): The Jewbird. Thomas Mann (Germany): The Infant Prodigy. Katherine Mansfield (New Zealand): Her First Ball. Ren Marqus (Puerto Rico): Island of Manhattan. Paule Marshall (Barbados/United States): Brooklyn. Bobbie Ann Mason (United States): Shiloh. William Somerset Maugham (England): The Appointment in Samarra. Guy DeMaupassant (France): The Necklace. Richard McCann (United States): My Mother''s Clothes: The School of Beauty and Shame. John McClusky (United States): Lush Life. Herman Melville (United States): Bartleby, the Scrivener. Katherine Min (Korea/United States): The One Who Goes Farthest Away. Susan Minot (United States): Lust. Yukio Mishima (Japan): Swaddling Clothes. Kermit Moyer (United States): Tumbling. Es ''Kia Mphahlele (South Africa): Mrs. Plum. Slawomir Mrozek (Poland): The Elephant. Bharati Mukherjee (India/United States): A Father. Alice Munro (Canada): The Office. V.S. Naipaul (Trinidad): One Out of Many. Carmen Naranjo (Costa Rica): And We Sold the Rain. R.K. Narayan (India): A Horse and Two Goats. Ngugi Wa Thiong''O (Kenya): A Meeting in the Dark. Joyce Carol Oates (United States): Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Oba Minako (Japan): The Pale Fox. Flannery O''Connor (United States): A Good Man is Hard to Find. Oe Kenzaburo (Japan): Aghwee the Sky Monster. Sembene Ousmane (Senegal): Black Girl. Amos Oz (Israel): Nomad and Viper. Emilia Pardo Bazn (Spain): The Revolver. Octavio Paz (Mexico): The Blue Bouquet. Virgilio Piera (Cuba): Insomnia. Edgar Allan Poe (United States): The Cask of Amontillado. Katherine Anne Porter (United States): Rope. Rodrigo Rey Rosa (Guatemala): The Proof. Gabrielle Roy (Canada): The Move. Leslie Marmon Silko (United States): Yellow Woman. Isaac Bashevis Singer (Poland/United States): Gimpel the Fool. Mara Theresa Solari (Peru): Death and Transfiguration of a Teacher. John Steinbeck (United States): The Chrysanthemums. Hyemeyohsts Storm (United States): The Story of Jumping Mouse. Graham Swift (England): Leaming to Swim. Amy Tan (China/United States): Half and Half. Leo Tolstoy (Russia): The Death of Ivan Ilych. Amos TutuoIa (Nigeria): The Complete Gentleman. Mark Twain (United States): Luck. John Updike (United States): A & P. Luisa Valenzuela (Argentina): Strange Things Happen Here. Marlo Vargas Llosa (Peru): Sunday. Alice Walker (United States): Everyday Use. Eudora Welty (United States): Why I Live at the P.O. Edith Wharton (United States): Roman Fever. Longer Narratives. MuIk Raj Anand (India): Untouchable. Kate Chopin (United States): The Awakening.

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