IED 281 (02) THE SHORT STORY
Stories
1. Nikolai Gogol – “The Overcoat" (1842)
2. Edgar Allan Poe – “The Pit and the Pendulum” (1842)
3. Guy de Maupassant – “The Diamond Necklace” (1884)
4. Anton Chekov – “The Avenger” (1887) & “The Bet” (1889)
5. W.W. Jacob – “The Monkey’s Paw” (1902)
6. James Joyce – “Araby” (1914)
7. Katherine Mansfield – “The Garden Party” (1922)
8. D.H. Lawrence – “The Rocking-Horse Winner” (1923)
9. Ernest Hemingway – “A Clean Well-Lighted Place” (1933) & “The
Killers” (1927)
10. Ray Bradbury – “The Veldt” (1950)
11. G.G. Marquez – “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings” (1955)
12. John Cheever – “The Swimmer” (1964)
13. Raymond Carver – “Why Don't You Dance?” (1977)
14. Jorge Luis Borges - “Shakespeare’s Memory” (1983)
15. Barry Yourgrau – “Milk”, “Snow”, “Talk,” “From A Book of Hours” and
“The Joke” (1987)
16. Peter Stamm – “Sweet Dreams” (2008/12)
17. Lionel Shriver – “Kifili Creek” (2014)
Criticism
1. Brander Matthews’ “The Philosophy Of The Short Story” (1901) in The
New Short Story Theories (1994)
2. Charles May Introduction, The New Short Story Theories (1994)
3. Frank Myszor “Critical Approaches” from The Modern Short Story (2001)
4. Scott Bradfield’s “Confessions of a Short Story Writer” (2010)
Dr. Jason Mark Ward