PART ONE INTRODUCTION TO SHORT FICTION
PART TWO ELEMENTS OF FICTION
Setting
Conflict
Character
Theme
PART THREE ART OF FICTION
Point of View
The First Person
The Second Person
The Third Person
Style
Plot
Figurative Devices
Symbolism
Irony
PART FOUR BEST SHORT STORIES
Washington Irving (1783-1859)
Rip Van Winkle
Nathaniel Hawthorn ( 1804-- 1864)
The Young Goodman Brown
Mark Twain (1835--1910)
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Guy de Maupassant (1850--1893)
The Diamond Necklace
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
The Lady With the Dog
O. Henry (1867--1910)
The Gift of the Magi
Sherwood Anderson (1876-- 1941)
Death in the Woods
James Joyce (1882-1941)
Araby
Virginia Woolf (1882-- 1941)
Kew Gardens
D. H. Lawrence (1885--1930)
The Rocking Horse Winner
William Faulkner ( 1897-- 1962)
A Rose for Emily
Earnest Hemingway ( 1899 -- 1961 )
A Clean, Well-lighted Place
John Steinbeck (1902--1968)
The Chrysanthemums
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-- 1991)
Gimpel the Fool
John Cheerer (1912-1982)
The Swimmer
Flannery O'Connor (1925-- 1964)
Revelation
John Updike (1932- )
A&P
References