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Enjoying Stories

by Robert Atwan (Editor), Harvey S. Wiener (Editor)

Other authors: Woody Allen (Contributor), Sherwood Anderson (Contributor), Max Apple (Contributor), Donald Barthelme (Contributor), Ann Beattie (Contributor) — 87 more, Ambrose Bierce (Contributor), Jorge Luis Borges (Contributor), Ray Bradbury (Contributor), Richard Brautigan (Contributor), Edgar Rice Burroughs (Contributor), Raymond Carver (Contributor), Willa Cather (Contributor), Raymond Chandler (Contributor), John Cheever (Contributor), Anton Chekhov (Contributor), Kate Chopin (Contributor), Colette (Contributor), John Collier (Contributor), Joseph Conrad (Contributor), Stephen Crane (Contributor), Roald Dahl (Contributor), Alphonse Daudet (Contributor), Guy de Maupassant (Contributor), Arthur Conan Doyle (Contributor), William Faulkner (Contributor), F. Scott Fitzgerald (Contributor), William Price Fox (Contributor), Gabriel García Márquez (Contributor), Hamlin Garland (Contributor), Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Contributor), Nadine Gordimer (Contributor), Graham Greene (Contributor), Thomas Hardy (Contributor), Bret Harte (Contributor), Nathaniel Hawthorne (Contributor), Ernest Hemingway (Contributor), O. Henry (Contributor), William Hope Hodgson (Contributor), Langston Hughes (Contributor), William Humphrey (Contributor), Washington Irving (Contributor), Shirley Jackson (Contributor), W. W. Jacobs (Contributor), Henry James (Contributor), Sarah Orne Jewett (Contributor), James Joyce (Contributor), Franz Kafka (Contributor), Rudyard Kipling (Contributor), Ring Lardner (Contributor), D.H. Lawrence (Contributor), Ursula K. Le Guin (Contributor), Stanisław Lem (Contributor), Doris Lessing (Contributor), Jack London (Contributor), Bernard Malamud (Contributor), Thomas Mann (Contributor), Katherine Mansfield (Contributor), Bobbie Ann Mason (Contributor), W. Somerset Maugham (Contributor), Carson McCullers (Contributor), Herman Melville (Contributor), Wright Morris (Contributor), Vladimir Nabokov (Contributor), V. S. Naipaul (Contributor), Alfred Noyes (Contributor), Flannery O'Connor (Contributor), Joyce Carol Oates (Contributor), Tillie Olsen (Contributor), Grace Paley (Contributor), Dorothy Parker (Contributor), Edgar Allan Poe (Contributor), Katherine Anne Porter (Contributor), Saki (Contributor), William Saroyan (Contributor), Irwin Shaw (Contributor), Isaac Bashevis Singer (Contributor), Mitch Sisskind (Contributor), John Steinbeck (Contributor), Frank Stockton (Contributor), James Thurber (Contributor), Leo Tolstoy (Contributor), William Trevor (Contributor), Mark Twain (Contributor), John Updike (Contributor), Alice Walker (Contributor), Evelyn Waugh (Contributor), H.G. Wells (Contributor), Eudora Welty (Contributor), William Carlos Williams (Contributor), Thomas Wolfe (Contributor), Virginia Woolf (Contributor), Richard Wright (Contributor)

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Atwan, RobertEditorprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Wiener, Harvey S.Editormain authorall editionsconfirmed
Allen, WoodyContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Anderson, SherwoodContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Apple, MaxContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Barthelme, DonaldContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Beattie, AnnContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Bierce, AmbroseContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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Bradbury, RayContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Brautigan, RichardContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Burroughs, Edgar RiceContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Carver, RaymondContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Cather, WillaContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Chandler, RaymondContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Cheever, JohnContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Chekhov, AntonContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Chopin, KateContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
ColetteContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Collier, JohnContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Conrad, JosephContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Crane, StephenContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Dahl, RoaldContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Daudet, AlphonseContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
de Maupassant, GuyContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Doyle, Arthur ConanContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Faulkner, WilliamContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Fitzgerald, F. ScottContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Fox, William PriceContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
García Márquez, GabrielContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Garland, HamlinContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Gilman, Charlotte PerkinsContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Gordimer, NadineContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Greene, GrahamContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Hardy, ThomasContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Harte, BretContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Hawthorne, NathanielContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Hemingway, ErnestContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Henry, O.Contributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Hodgson, William HopeContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Hughes, LangstonContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Humphrey, WilliamContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Irving, WashingtonContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Jackson, ShirleyContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Jacobs, W. W.Contributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
James, HenryContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Jewett, Sarah OrneContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Joyce, JamesContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Kafka, FranzContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Kipling, RudyardContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Lardner, RingContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Lawrence, D.H.Contributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Le Guin, Ursula K.Contributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Lem, StanisławContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Lessing, DorisContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
London, JackContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Malamud, BernardContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Mann, ThomasContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Mansfield, KatherineContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Mason, Bobbie AnnContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Maugham, W. SomersetContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
McCullers, CarsonContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Melville, HermanContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Morris, WrightContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Nabokov, VladimirContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Naipaul, V. S.Contributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Noyes, AlfredContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
O'Connor, FlanneryContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Oates, Joyce CarolContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Olsen, TillieContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Paley, GraceContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Parker, DorothyContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Poe, Edgar AllanContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Porter, Katherine AnneContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
SakiContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Saroyan, WilliamContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Shaw, IrwinContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Singer, Isaac BashevisContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Sisskind, MitchContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Steinbeck, JohnContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Stockton, FrankContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Thurber, JamesContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Tolstoy, LeoContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Trevor, WilliamContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Twain, MarkContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Updike, JohnContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Walker, AliceContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Waugh, EvelynContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Wells, H.G.Contributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Welty, EudoraContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Williams, William CarlosContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Wolfe, ThomasContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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Wright, RichardContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad
The Dead by James Joyce
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
A Conversation with My Father by Grace Paley
Rip van Winkle by Washington Irving
The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Wakefield by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Pit and the Pendulum [short story] by Edgar Allan Poe
The Tell-Tale Heart [short story] by Edgar Allan Poe
The Lightning-Rod Man by Herman Melville
The Lady, or the Tiger? [short story] by Frank Richard Stockton
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County [short story] by Mark Twain
The Piece of String by Guy de Maupassant
The Necklace {story} by Guy de Maupassant
The Outcasts of Poker Flat [short story] by Bret Harte
The Last Lesson by Alphonse Daudet
Chickamauga by Ambrose Bierce
The Real Thing by Henry James
Miss Tempy's Watchers by Sarah Orne Jewett
The Story of an Hour [short story] by Kate Chopin
Regret by Kate Chopin
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (short story) by Arthur Conan Doyle
Misery by Anton Chekhov
In the Cart {short story} by Anton Chekhov
Under the Lion's Paw by Hamlin Garland
The Yellow Wallpaper [short fiction] by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Last Leaf by O'Henry
While the Auto Waits by O. Henry
The Monkey's Paw [short story] by W. W. Jacobs
The Man Who Could Work Miracles [short fiction] by H. G. Wells
The Open Window [short story] by Saki
An Episode of War by Stephen Crane
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane
A Wagner Matinée [short story] by Willa Cather
A String of Beads by W. Somerset Maugham
I'm a Fool by Sherwood Anderson
Railway Accident [short fiction] by Thomas Mann
The Nightmare by Edgar Rice Burroughs
To Build a Fire [short story] by Jack London
The Voice in the Night [short story] by William Hope Hodgson
Midnight Express by Alfred Noyes
A Haunted House [short story] by Virginia Woolf
Araby by James Joyce
The Use of Force by William Carlos Williams
The Rocking-Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence
Haircut by Ring Lardner
The Garden Party - short story by Katherine Mansfield
I'll Be Waiting by Raymond Chandler
The Grave by Katherine Anne Porter
The Standard of Living by Dorothy Parker
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty [short fiction] by James Thurber
Babylon Revisited [short story] by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Rose for Emily {story} by William Faulkner
Dry September by William Faulkner
Indian camp by Ernest Hemingway
Streetcorner Man by Jorge Luis Borges
Only the Dead Know Brooklyn [short story] by Thomas Wolfe
Thus I Refute Beelzy [short story] by John Collier
Thank You, M'am by Langston Hughes
On the Road by Langston Hughes
The Leader of the People by John Steinbeck
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing [short story] by Evelyn Waugh
The Destructors by Graham Greene
Almos' a Man by Richard Wright
The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse by William Saroyan
A Visit of Charity by Eudora Welty
The Swimmer by John Cheever
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses by Irwin Shaw
I Stand Here Ironing by Tillie Olsen
Angel Levine by Bernard Malamud
Genesis and Catastrophe by Roald Dahl
A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud [short story] by Carson McCullers
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
A Woman on a Roof [short fiction] by Doris Lessing
Changeling by Ray Bradbury
How the World was Saved {short story} by Stanislaw Lem
The Termitary by Nadine Gordimer
A Good Man is Hard to Find [short story] by Flannery O'Connor
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel García Márquez
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby by Donald Barthelme
A & P: Lust in the Aisles by John Updike
Why Don't You Dance? {story} by Raymond Carver
Shiloh by Bobbie Ann Mason
Bridging by Max Apple
To Hell with Dying by Alice Walker
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Contains:
  • Credits
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: Stories and Storytellers
    • The Story-Telling Stone / Seneca Indian Myth
    • The Story-Teller / Saki
    • The Passenger / Vladimir Nabokov
    • A Conversation with My Father / Grace Paley
  • Part 2: The Short Story
    • Rip van Winkle / Washington Irving
    • The Birthmark / Nathaniel Hawthorne
    • Wakefield / Nathaniel Hawthorne
    • The Pit and the Pendulum / Edgar Allan Poe
    • The Tell-Tale Heart / Edgar Allen Poe
    • The Lightning-Rod Man / Herman Melville
    • How Much Land Does a Man Need? / Leo Tolstoy
    • The Lady, or the Tiger? / Frank Stockton
    • The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain
    • The Piece of String / Guy de Maupassant
    • The Necklace / Guy de Maupassant
    • The Outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte
    • The Last Lesson / Alphonse Daudet
    • Tony Kytes, the Arch-Deceiver / Thomas Hardy
    • Chickamauga / Ambrose Bierce
    • The Real Thing / Henry James
    • Miss Tempy’s Watchers / Sarah Orne Jewett
    • The Story of an Hour / Kate Chopin
    • Regret / Kate Chopin
    • The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle / Arthur Conan Doyle
    • Misery / Anton Chekhov
    • In the Cart / Anton Chekhov
    • Under the Lion’s Paw / Hamlin Garland
    • The Yellow Wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    • The Last Leaf / O. Henry
    • While the Auto Waits / O. Henry
    • The Monkey’s Paw / W. W. Jacobs
    • The Gardener / Rudyard Kipling
    • The Man Who Could Work Miracles / H.G. Wells
    • The Open Window / Saki
    • An Episode of War / Stephen Crane
    • The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky / Stephen Crane
    • A Wagner Matinee / Willa Cather
    • The Hand / Colette
    • A String of Beads / W. Somerset Maugham
    • I’m a Fool / Sherwood Anderson
    • Railway Accident / Thomas Mann
    • The Nightmare / Edgar Rice Burroughs
    • To Build a Fire / Jack London
    • The Voice in the Night / William Hope Hodgson
    • Midnight Express / Alfred Noyes
    • A Haunted House / Virginia Woolf
    • Araby / James Joyce
    • The Use of Force / William Carlos Williams
    • The Rocking-Horse Winner / D.H. Lawrence
    • Haircut / Ring Lardner
    • The Garden-Party / Katherine Mansfield
    • I’ll Be Waiting / Raymond Chandler
    • The Grave / Katherine Anne Porter
    • The Standard of Living / Dorothy Parker
    • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber
    • Babylon Revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald
    • A Rose for Emily / William Faulkner
    • Dry September / William Faulkner
    • Indian Camp / Ernest Hemingway
    • Streetcorner Man / Jorge Luis Borges
    • Only the Dead Know Brooklyn / Thomas Wolfe
    • Thus I refute Beelzy / John Collier
    • Thank You, M’am / Langston Hughes
    • On the Road / Langston Hughes
    • The Leader of the People / John Steinbeck
    • Mr. Loveday’s Little Outing / Evelyn Waugh
    • The Destructors / Graham Greene
    • The Enemy / Isaac Bashevis Singer
    • Almos’ a Man / Richard Wright
    • The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse / William Saroyan
    • A Visit of Charity / Eudora Welty
    • A Fight Between a White Boy and a Black Boy in the Dusk of a Fall Afternoon in Omaha, Nebraska / Wright Morris
    • The Swimmer / John Cheever
    • The Girls in Their Summer Dresses / Irwin Shaw
    • I Stand Here Ironing / Tillie Olsen
    • Angel Levine / Bernard Malamud
    • Genesis and Catastrophe / Roald Dahl
    • A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud / Carson McCullers
    • The Lottery / Shirley Jackson
    • A Woman on a Roof / Doris Lessing
    • Changeling / Ray Bradbury
    • How the World Was Saved / Stanisław Lem
    • The Termitary / Nadine Gordimer
    • The Human Fly / William Humphrey
    • A Good Man Is Hard to Find / Flannery O’Connor
    • Pit Fight / William Price Fox
    • A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings / Gabriel García Márquez
    • Teresa’s Wedding / William Trevor
    • The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin
    • Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby / Donald Barthelme
    • A & P / John Updike
    • The Coward / V. S. Naipaul
    • The World War I Los Angeles Airplane / Richard Brautigan
    • The Condemned / Woody Allen
    • Stalking / Joyce Carol Oates
    • Why Don’t You Dance? / Raymond Carver
    • Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason
    • Bridging / Max Apple
    • To Hell with Dying / Alice Walker
    • A Day I’ll Never Forget / Mitch Sisskind
    • Snow / Ann Beattie
  • Part 3: Three Longer Tales
    • The Secret Sharer / Joseph Conrad
    • The Dead / James Joyce
    • The Metamorphosis / Franz Kafka
  • Credits, Continued
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