MASTERPLOTS II
SHORT STORY SERIES
REVISED EDITION
Volume 7
Sho-Two
Editor, Revised Edition
CHARLES MAY
California State University, Long Beach
Editor, First Edition
FRANK N. MAGILL
SALEM PRESS ,
Pasadena, California
Hackehsack, New Jersey
TABLE OF CONTENTS
A Shower of Gold—Donald Barthelme
ShowerofGold—EudoraWelty
A Sick Call—Morley Callaghan
The Sick Child—Colette
The Signal-Man—Charles Dickens
The Signing—Stephen Dixon
Signs and Symbols—Vladimir Nabokov
Silence—Carlos Bulosan
The Silence of the Llano—Rudolfo A. Anaya
Silent Passengers—Larry Woiwode
Silent Snow, Secret Snow—Conrad Aiken
A Silver Dish—SaulBellow
The Silver Mine—Selma Lagerlof
Silver Water—Amy Bloom
A Simple Heart—Gustave Flaubert
The Sin-Eater—Margaret Atwood
Singing Dinah's Song—Frank London Brown
The Singing Man—Fielding Dawson
The Sire de Maletroit's Door—Robert Louis Stevenson
The Sisters—James Joyce
The Sky Is Gray—Ernest J.Gaines
Slaughterhouse—GregSarris
Sleep—Larry Brown
The Slide Area—Gavin Lambert
A Small, Good Thing—Raymond Carver
The Smallest Woman in the World—Clarice Lispector
The Smell of Death and Flowers—Nadine Gordimer
The Smiles of Konarak—George Dennison
The Smoker—DavidSchickler
The Snake—John Steinbeck
The Snake Charmer—Varlam Shalamov
The Sniper—LiamO'Flaherty
The Sniper—Alan Sillitoe
Snow—AliceAdams
Snow—AnnBeattie
Snow—TedHughes
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The Snow-Storm—Leo Tolstoy
The Snows of Kilimanjaro—Ernest Hemingway
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So Much Water So Close to Home—Raymond Carver
So On He Fares—George Moore
A Soldier's Embrace—Nadine Gordimer
Soldier's Home—Ernest Hemingway
Solo on the Drums—AnnPetry
Some Like Them Cold—Ring Lardner
Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby—
DonaldBarthelme
Some Say the World—SusanPerabo
Somebody Up There Likes Me—Ralph Lombreglia
Something Out There—Nadine Gordimer
Somnambulism—Charles Brockden Brown
Son of the Wolfman—Michael Chabon
Sonny's Blues—James Baldwin
Sophistication—Sherwood Anderson
Sorrow-Acre—isakDinesen
A Sorrowful Woman—GailGodwin
Sound of a Drunken Drummer—H.W.Blattner
The South—Jorge Luis Borges
The Southern Thruway—Julio Cortdzar
Speck's Idea—Mavis Gallant
The Spinoza of Market Street—Isaac Bashevis Singer
Spirit Woman—Paula Gunn Allen
Split Cherry Tree—Jesse Stuart
Spotted Horses—William Faulkner
Spring Victory—Jesse Stuart
Spunk—Zora Neale Hurston
Sredni Vashtar—Saki
Stalking—Joyce Carol Oates
The Star—Arthur C. Clarke
Star Food—Ethan Canin
State of England—Martin Amis
The Station-Master—Alexander Pushkin
Steady Going Up—MayaAngelou
The Steppe—Anton Chekhov
A Stick of Green Candy—Jane Bowles
TheStoneBoy—Gina Berriault
The Storm—Kate Chopin
A Story—Dylan Thomas
A Story by Maupassant—Frank O'Connor
The Story of an Hour—Kate Chopin
The Story of My Dovecot—Isaac Babel
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The Story of Serapion—E. T.A. Hoffmann
The Storytellers—FredChappell
The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes—Rudyard Kipling
The Street of Crocodiles—Bruno Schulz
Strong Horse Tea—Alice Walker
Structural Anthropology—Adam Mars-Jones
The Stucco House—Ellen Gilchrist
A Sudden Trip Home in the Spring—Alice Walker
The Suicide Club-—Robert Louis Stevenson
Suicides—Cesare Pavese
The Suitor—Larry Woiwode
Summer Evening—KayBoyle
SummerLeague—DannyRomem
Summer Night—Elizabeth Bowen
The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse—William Saroyan
A Summer Tragedy—ArnaBontemps
A Summer's Reading—Bernard Malamud
Sun—D. H. Lawrence
Sunday Dinner in Brooklyn—Anatole Broyard
Sunday in the Park—Bel Kaufman
The Supper at Elsinore—IsakDinesen
The Supremacy of the Hunza—Joanne Greenberg
Sur—Ursula K.LeGuin
Susanna at the Beach—Herbert Gold
Swaddling Clothes— YukioMishima
Sweat—Zora Neale Hurston
The Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong—Tim O'Brien
The Swimmer—John Cheever
The Swimmers—Joyce Carol Oates
Sylvie—Gerard deNerval
The Symbol— Virginia Woolf
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The Tables of the Law—William Butler Yeats
Take Pity—Bernard Malamud
Taking Care—Joy Williams
The Tale—JosephConrad
Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta—Kate Braverman
Talpa—Jwaw Rulfo
Tatuana'sTale—Miguel Angel Asturias
Tears, Idle Tears—Elizabeth Bowen . . . .
Teenage Wasteland—Anne Tyler
Tell Me a Riddle—TillieOlsen
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Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone—James Baldwin
The Tell-Tale Heart—Edgar Allan Poe
Tell Them Not to Kill Me 1—JuanRulfo
The Tender Shoot— Colette
Tennessee's Partner—BretHarte
Terrific Mother—Lorrie Moore
Territory—DavidLeavitt
Testimony of Pilot—Barry Hannah
Texts for Nothing 3—Samuel Beckett
Thank You, M'am—Langston Hughes
Thanksgiving Day—Susan Minot
That Evening Sun—William Faulkner
That in Aleppo Once—Vladimir Nabokov
Theater—Jean Toomer
Theft—Katherine Anne Porter
Theme of the Traitor and the Hero—Jorge Luis Borges
There Will Come Soft Rains—Ray Bradbury
These Hands—Kevin Brockmeier
They—Rudyard Kipling
They Won't Crack It Open—Yong-IkKim
Thief—Robley Wilson
The Things They Carried—Tim O'Brien
The Third and Final Continent—JhumpaLahiri
The Third Bank of the River—Joao Guimaraes Rosa
The Third Prize—A. E.Coppard
This Indolence of Mine—ItaloSvevo
This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona—Sherman Alexie
This Morning, This Evening, So Soon—James Baldwin
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentleman—Tadeusz Borowski
The Three-Day Blow—Ernest Hemingway
Three Deaths—Leo Tolstoy
The Three Hermits—Leo Tolstoy
The Three of Them—EdnaFerber
Three Players of a Summer Game—Tennessee Williams
The Three Strangers—Thomas Hardy
Thrown Away—Rudyard Kipling
Tickets, Please—D.H.Lawrence
The Time of Her Time—Norman Mailer
Time the Tiger—Wyndham Lewis
Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius—Jorge Luis Borges
ToBuildaFire—JackLondon
To Hell with Dying—AliceWalker
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To Room Nineteen—Doris Lessing
Toad's Mouth—Isabel Allende
Today Will Be a Quiet Day—Amy Hempel
Together and Apart—VirginiaWoolf
Tommy—John Edgar Wideman
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and So Forth—John Updike
TonioKroger—ThomasMann
The Toughest Indian in the World—Sherman Alexie
Town and Country Lovers—Nadine Gordimer
The Town Poor—Sarah Orne Jewett
TownSmokes—PinckneyBenedict
The Tractor—Peter Cowan
Train—Joy Williams
The Train from Rhodesia—Nadine Gordimer
Traveler—Ellen Gilchrist
A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud.—Carson McCullers
The Tree of Knowledge—HenryJames
A Tree of Night—Truman Capote
Trick or Treat—Padgett Powell
A Trifling Occurrence—Anton Chekhov
Trilobites—BreeceD'J Pancake
Tristan—ThomasMann
The Trout—Sean O 'Faoldin
Truant—ClaudeMcKay
A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal—Daniel Defoe
A True Story—Mark Twain
The Trumpet— Walter de la Mare
Truth and Lies—Reynolds Price
Truth or Consequences—Alice Adams
The Tumblers—Nathan Englander
The Twenty-seventh Man—Nathan Englander
Twenty-six Men and a Girl—Maxim Gorky
Two Blue Birds—D. H. Lawrence
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