MASTERPLOTS II
SHORT STORY SERIES
REVISED EDITION
Volume 5
Loo-Ope
Editor, Revised Edition
CHARLES MAY
California State University, Long Beach
Editor, First Edition
FRANK N. MAGILL
SALEM PRESS
Pasadena, California
Hackensack, New Jersey
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Looking for Mr. Green—Saul Bellow
The Loons—Margaret Laurence
The Lost Boy—Thomas Wolfe
Lost in the Funhouse—JohnBarth
The Lost Phoebe—Theodore Dreiser
The Lottery—Shirley Jackson
The Lottery in Babylon—Jorge Luis Borges
The Loudest Voice—Grace Paley
Love—Guy de Maupassant
The Love Decoy—S.J.Perelman
The Love of a Good Woman—Alice Munro
The Lover of Horses—Tess Gallagher
The Luck of Roaring Camp—BretHarte
Lullaby—Leslie Marmon Silko
Lust—Susan Minot
Lyubka the Cossack—IsaacBabel
Madame Celestin's Divorce—Kate Chopin
Madame Tellier's Establishment—Guy de Maupassant
Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland—Carson McCullers .
Ma'Dear—7erry McMillan
Mademoiselle Fifi—Guy de Maupassant
The Madness of Doctor Montarco—Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
The Magic Barrel—Bernard Malamud
Maiden in a Tower—Wallace Stegner
Mammon and the Archer—O. Henry
The Man from Mars—Margaret Atwood
The Man in a Case—AntonChekhov
The Man in the Black Suit—StephenKing
The Man of the World—Frank O 'Connor
The Man That Corrupted Yi&dleyburg—Mark Twain
The Man to Send Rain Clouds—Leslie Marmon Silko
The Man Who Became a Woman—Sherwood Anderson
The Man Who Could Work Miracles—H.G.Weils
The Man Who Found a Pistol—Rudolfo A. Anaya
The Man Who Invented Sin—SednO'Faoldin.
The Man Who Knew Belle Starr—Richard Bausch
The Man Who Lived Underground—Richard Wright . . .
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The Man Who Loved Islands—D.H.Lawrence
The Man Who Studied Yoga—Norman Mailer
The Man Who Was Almost a Man—Richard Wright
The Man Who Would Be King—Rudyard Kipling
The Man with the Dog—Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
The Man with the Lapdog—BethLordan
Man, Woman and Boy—Stephen Dixon
The Management of Grief—Bharati Mukherjee
Ms. Found in a Bottle—Edgar Allan Poe
Many Are Disappointed—V. S. Pritchett
Margins—Donald Barthelme
Maria Conception—Katherine Anne Porter
The Marijuana Party—Mary Helen Ponce
Mario and the Magician—Thomas Mann
MarjorieDaw—Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The Mark on the Wall— Virginia Woolf
Markheim—Robert Louis Stevenson
The Marquise of O
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Marriage a la Mode—Katherine Mansfield
The Masque of the Red Death—Edgar Allan Poe
Master and Man—Leo Tolstoy
Mateo Falcone—Prosper Merimee
Matryona's House—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
May Day—F. Scott Fitzgerald
Medusa's Ankles—A. S. Byatt
A Meeting in the Dark—NgugiwaThiong'o
Melungeons—Chris Offutt
Memories of the Space Age—J.G.Ballard
A Memory—Eudora Welty
Men Under Water—Ralph Lombreglia
Meneseteung—Alice Munro
Metamorphoses—JohnCheever
The Metamorphosis—Franz Kafka
Midair—Frank Conroy
The Middle Years—Henry James
Midnight Mass—Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Midsummer Night Madness—SednO'Faoldin
Migrants—Elizabeth Tallent
The Minister's Black Veil—Nathaniel Hawthorne
Minor Heroism—Allan Gurganus
Miracle Boy—Pinckney Benedict
The Miracle of the Birds—Jorge Amado
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Miriam—Truman Capote
Mirrors—Cawl Shields
Misery—-Anton Chekhov
Miss Brill—Katherine Mansfield
Miss Cynthie—Rudolph Fisher
Miss Leonora When Last Seen—Peter Taylor
Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself—Radclyffe Hall
Miss Tempy's Watchers—Sarah Orne Jewett
Moccasin Game—GeraldVizenor
The Mole—Yasunari Kawabata
The Monkey—IsakDinesen
The Monkey's Paw— W. W.Jacobs
The Monster—Stephen Crane
Moon and Madness—Isaac Bashevis Singer
Moon Deluxe—Frederick Barthebne
The Moons of Jupiter—Alice Munro
The Moor—RussellBanks
Mosby's Memoirs—Saul Bellow
The Most Dangerous Game—Richard Connell
The Mote in the Middle Distance, H*nryJ*m*s—MaxBeerbohm
A Mother's Tale—James Agee
The Moths—Helena Maria Viramontes
The Mountain Tavern—LiamO'Flaherty
The Moving—James Still
Moving Pictures—Charles Johnson
Mr. and Mrs. Baby—MarkStrand
Mrs. Fortescue—Doris Lessing
Mrs. Plum—EzekielMphahlele
Mrs. Ripley's Trip—Hamlin Garland
A Municipal Report—O. Henry
Murderers—Leonard Michaels
The Murders in the Rue Morgue—Edgar Allan Poe
Murke's Collected Silences—HeinrichBoll
MyFirstGoose—IsaacBabel
My Kinsman, Major Molineux—Nathaniel Hawthorne
MyManBovanne—Toni Cade Bambara
My Mother—Jamaica Kincaid
My Oedipus Complex—Frara/c O'Connor
My Old Man—Ernest Hemingway
My Side of the Matter— Truman Capote.
MyWarszawa—Joyce Carol Oates
Mysterious Kor—Elizabeth Bowen
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Nairobi—Joyce Carol Oates
A Nasty Story—Fyodor Dostoevski
National Honeymoon—PaulHorgan
ANativeofWinby—Sarah Orne Jew ett
Nebraska—RonHansen
The Necklace—Guy de Maupassant
Neighbor Rosicky—WillaCather
Neighbors—Raymond Carver
Neighbors—Diane Oliver
Nevada Gas—Raymond Chandler
The New Apartment—HeinzHuber
A New England Nun—Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
New Islands—Maria Luisa Bombal
New Year for Fong Wing—Monfoon Leong
A New Year's Eve Adventure—E. T. A. Hoffmann
Night-Sea Journey—JohnBarth
Night Swimming—Pete Fromm
Night Women—Edwidge Danticat
Nightfall—IsaacAsimov
No One's a Mystery—Elizabeth Tallent
No Place for You, My Love—EudoraWelty
No Trace—DavidMadden
Nomad and Viper—AmosOz
Noon Wine—Katherine Anne Porter
North Light—MarkHelprin
The Northern Lights—JoyHarjo
The Norwegian Rat—Naguib Mahfouz
The Nose—NikolaiGogol
NotaGoodGirl—PerriKlass
Now That April's Here—Morley Callaghan
The Nun—Pedro Antonio de Alarcon
The Nun's Mother—MaryLavin
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An Occasion of Sin—John Montague
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge—Ambrose Bierce
Odour of Chrysanthemums—D.H.Lawrence
Of This Time, of That Place—Lionel Trilling
An Official Position—W. Somerset Maugham
Oh, the Wonder!—Jeremy Larner
"Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad"—M./?. James
The Old Bird—J.F. Powers
The Old Forest—PeterTaylor
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OldHght—Barry Targan
The Old Man Slave and the Mastiff—Patrick Chamoiseau
Old Mortality—Katherine Anne Porter
OldRed—Caroline Gordon
Old Vemish—Barry Targan
OldWest—Richard Bausch
Old Woman Magoun—Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Old-World Landowners—Nikolai Gogol
On Account of a Hat—Sholom Aleichem
On Discovery—Maxine Hong Kingston
On Hope—Spencer Hoist
On the Golden Porch—TatyanaTolstaya
OntheRoad—Langston Hughes
On the Shore of Chad Creek—Jack Matthews
One Holy Night—Sandra Cisneros
The£l,000,000Bank-Note—Mark Twain
OneofaKind—JulianBarnes
One of Cleopatra's Nights—Theophile Gautier
One of the Missing—Ambrose Bierce
One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts—Shirley Jackson
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas—Ursula K. Le Guin
The Only Man on Liberty Street— William Melvin Kelley
The Open Boat—Stephen Crane
Open House—Nadine Gordimer
The Open Window—Saki
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