Short Stories, Short Stories-American, Short Stories-English 

The Seagull Reader 

A compelling mix of classic and contemporary stories.  

Uncle Ben's choice /Chinua Achebe -- What you pawn I will redeem / Sherman Alexie -- Sonny's blues / James Baldwin -- Cathedral / Raymond Carver -- The swimmer / John Cheever -- At home / Anton Chekhov -- The story of an hour / Kate Chopin -- The open boat / Stephen Crane -- I'm a mad dog biting myself for sympathy / Louise Erdrich -- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner -- A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel García Márquez -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway -- In the cemetery where Al Jolson is buried / Amy Hempel -- The gift of the Magi / O. Henry -- A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett -- Araby / James Joyce -- A hunger artist / Franz Kafka -- Girl / Jamaica Kincaid -- Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason -- A loaf of bread / James Alan McPherson -- Bartleby, the Scrivener / Herman Melville -- Boys and girls / Alice Munro -- Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates -- The things they carried / Tim O'Brien -- A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- Guests of the Nation / Frank O'Connor -- I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen -- The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Alan Poe -- The jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Ann Porter -- Vampires in the lemon grove / Karen Russell -- Winky / George Saunders -- Yellow woman / Leslie Marmon Silko -- The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck -- The memory priest of the Creech people / Paul Theroux -- A & P / John Updike -- Currents / Hannah Voskuil -- Everyday use / Alice Walker -- A worn path / Eudora Welty -- Roman fever / Edith Wharton -- The new dress / Virginia Woolf.