MASTERPLOTS II
SHORT STORY SERIES
REVISED EDITION
Volume 3
Esm-Hor
Editor, Revised Edition
CHARLES MAY
California State University, Long Beach
Editor, First Edition
FRANK N. MAGILL
SALEM PRESS
Pasadena, California
Hackerisack, New Jersey
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Esmeralda—Roberta Fernandez
Esther—Jean Toomer
Ethan Brand—Nathaniel Hawthorne
Europe—HenryJames
The Eve of the Spirit Festival—Lan Samantha Chang
Eveline—James Joyce
Evening in Paris—Denise Chavez
An Evening Performance—George Garrett
Everyday Use—Alice Walker
Everything in This Country Must—Colum McCann
Everything That Rises Must Converge—Flannery O'Connor
Excerpts from Swan Lake—Peter Cameron
Exchange Value—Charles Johnson
An Experiment in Misery—Stephen Crane
A Fable—Robert Fox
The Faces of Blood Kindred— William Goyen
Faith in a Tree—Grace Paley
The Faithful Wife—Morley Callaghan
The Fall—Alberto Moravia
The Fall of the House of Usher—Edgar Allan Poe
The Falling Girl—Dino Buzzati
The Falls—George Saunders
A Family Affair—Guy de Maupassant
A Family Supper—Kazuo Ishiguro
The Fancy Woman—PeterTaylor
The Farm—Joy Williams
The Fat Girl—AndreDubus
The Fat Man in History—PeterCarey
The Fat of the Land—Anzia Yezierska
Father and I—Par Lagerkvist
AFather-to-Be—SaulBellow
Fathers—Robley Wilson
The Father's Daughters—Muriel Spark
A Father's Story—AndreDubus
Faustino—MaxMartinez
Female Trouble—Antonya Nelson
Fern—JeanToomer
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Fever—John Edgar Wideman
The Field of Blue Children—Tennessee Williams
The Field of Mustard—A. E.Coppard
Fiesta, \9%Q—JunotDiaz
The Fight—Dylan Thomas
The Figure in the Carpet—Henry James
The Final Proof of Fate and Circumstance—Lee K.Abbott
Finding Natasha—Madison Smartt Bell
Finding the Chain—Mary Hood
The Fireman's Wife—Richard Bausch
First, Body—Melanie Rae Thon
First Communion—Tomds Rivera
First Confession—Frank O'Connor
First Dark—Elizabeth Spencer
First Love and Other Sorrows—Harold Brodkey
First Love, Last Rites—IanMcEwan
Firstborn—Larry Woiwode
The Fisherman from Chihuahua—Evan S. Connell, Jr.
Fitting Ends—Dan Chaon
The Five-Forty-Eight—John Cheever
Five-Twenty—Patrick White
Flesh and the Mirror—Angela Carter
Fleur—Louise Erdrich
Flight—John Steinbeck
Floating Bridge—Alice Munro
The Flood—Joy Harjo
Flowering Judas—Katherine Anne Porter
Flowers for Algernon—Daniel Keyes
The Fly—Katherine Mansfield
Flying Home—Ralph Ellison
Footfalls—Wi/fewr Daniel Steele
ForEsme—with Love and Squalor—J.D.Salinger
Forgiveness—Edna O'Brien
The Forks—J.F Powers
Frazer Avenue—Guy Garcia
The Freshest Boy—F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Friend of Kafka—Isaac Bashevis Singer
Frog Dances—Stephen Dixon
The Funes Memorious—Jorge Luis Borges
The Fur Coat—SednO'Faoldin
The Furnished Room— O. Henry
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Games at Twilight—Anita Desai
The Garden of Forking Paths—Jorge Luis Borges
The Garden-Party—Katherine Mansfield
The Gardener—Rudyard Kipling
The Gardens of Mont-Saint-Michel—William Maxwell
Generous Wine—ItaloSvevo
Gent—Rick DeMarinis
The Gentleman from Cracow—Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Gentleman from San Francisco—IvanBunin
Geraldo No Last Name—Sandra Cisneros
Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt—William Goyen
The Ghost Soldiers—Tim O'Brien
The Ghosts—LordDunsany
TheGift—John Steinbeck
The Gift of the Magi—O.Henry
The Gilded Six-Bits—Zora Neale Hurston
The Gilgul of Park Avenue—Nathan Englander
Gimpel the Fool—Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Gioconda Smile—Aldous Huxley
Girl—Jamaica Kincaid
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt—Aimee Bender
The Girl on the Plane—Mary Gaitskill
The Girl Who Left Her Sock on the Floor—Deborah Eisenberg
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses—IrwinShaw
GladiusDei—Thomas Mann
The Glass Mountain—Donald Barthelme
The Gleaner—HE. Bates
Glimpse into Another Country—Wright Morris
Gobseck—Honore de Balzac
Gogol'sWife—Tommaso Landolfi
Going—AmyHempel
Going After Cacciato—TimO'Brien
Going Ashore—Mavis Gallant
Going Home—William Trevor
Going to Meet the Man—James Baldwin
The Gold-Bug—Edgar Allan Poe
GoldCoast—James Alan McPherson
The Golden Apple of Eternal Desire—Milan Kundera
The Golden Honeymoon—RingLardner
The Gonzaga Manuscripts—Saul Bellow .
Good Advice Is Rarer than Rubies—Salman Rushdie
Good Country People—Flannery O'Connor
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find—Flannery O'Connor
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain—Robert Olen Butler
Goodbye, My Brother—JohnCheever
The Goophered Grapevine—Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Gooseberries—Anton Chekhov
Gorilla, My Love—Toni Cade Bambara
The Gospel According to Mark—Jorge Luis Borges
Gospel Singers—Langston Hughes
Grace—James Joyce
La Grande Breteche—Honore de Balzac
Graphomaniacs—AbramTertz
The Grasshopper and the Cricket—Yasunari Kawabata
TheGrave—Katherine Anne Porter
Graveyard Day—Bobbie Ann Mason
Gravity—David Leavitt
Greasy Lake—T. Coraghessan Boyle
The Great Beyond—Cyprian Ekwensi
The Great Good Place—Henry James
The Great Wall of China—Franz Kafica
The Great Wave—MaryLavin
The Greek Interpreter—Arthur Conan Doyle
Green Tea—Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Greenleaf—Flannery O'Connor
Greyhound People—Alice Adams
Gryphon—Charles Baxter
The Guest—Albert Camus
Guests of the Nation—Frank O'Connor
The Gun Shop—John Updike
Gusev—Anton Chekhov
Gussuk—MeiMeiEvans
Guy de Maupassant—Isaac Babel
Haircut—Ring Lardner
The Half-Skinned Steer—E. Annie Proulx
The Halfway Diner—John Sayles
Hamlet of the Shchigrovsky District—IvanTurgenev
The Hammer of God—G.K.Chesterton
The Hammon and the Beans—Americo Paredes
Hands—Sherwood Anderson
The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World—
Gabriel Garcia Mdrquez
Happiness—MaryLavin
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Happy August the Tenth—Tennessee Williams
The Happy Autumn Fields—Elizabeth Bowen
Harmony—RingLardner
Harrison Bergeron—KurtVonnegut
A Haunted House—Virginia Woolf
The Headless Hawk—Truman Capote
Health—Joy Williams
The Heart of the Artichoke—Herbert Gold
Heat—Joyce Carol Oates
The Hector Quesadilla Story—T. Coraghessan Boyle
Helix—Mahoko Yoshimoto
Helping—Robert Stone
Her First Ball—Katherine Mansfield
Her Quaint Honor—Caroline Gordon
Her Sweet Jerome—Alice Walker
Her Table Spread-—Elizabeth Bowen
Herakleitos—Guy Davenport
The Hermit's Story—Rick Bass
Herodias—Gustave Flaubert
The Heroes in the Dark House—Benedict Kiely
He's at the Office—Allan Gurganus
The Higgler—A. E. Coppard
Hills Like White Elephants—Ernest Hemingway
The Hint of an Explanation—Graham Greene
His Final Mother—Reynolds Price
His Son, in His Arms, in Light, Aloft—Harold Brodkey
The Hitchhiking Game—Milan Kundera
Hodel—SholomAleichem
Homage for Isaac Babel—Doris Lessing
Home—Jayne Anne Phillips
HomeSickness—George Moore
Homeland—Barbara Kingsolver
An Honest Thief—Fyodor Dostoevski
Hook— Walter Van Tilburg Clark
TheHorla—Guy de Maupassant
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