An edition of Best Short Stories -- Advanced Level (1980)
Best Short Stories
Advanced Level
By Raymond Harris,Katherine Mansfield,James Baldwin,Frank O'Connor,Katherine Anne Porter,Jean-Paul Sartre,John Updike,Edgar Allan Poe,Nathaniel Hawthorne,William Faulkner,Truman Capote,Isaac Asimov,Woody Allen,Mark Twain,Isaac Bashevis Singer,Shirley Jackson,John Steinbeck
Publish Date
2002
Publisher
Jamestown Publishers
Language
eng
Pages
557
Description:
The garden party / Katherine Mansfield Tell me how long the train's been gone / James Baldwin My Oedipus complex / Frank O'Connor The jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter The wall / Jean-Paul Sartre The Christian roommates / John Updike [Young goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne [The black cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) / Edgar Allan Poe [A rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W) / William Faulkner A Christmas memory / Truman Capote The leader of the people / John Steinbeck Nightfall / Isaac Asimov The Kugelmass episode / Woody Allen The man that corrupted Hadleyburg / Mark Twain The gentleman from Cracow / Isaac B. Singer The lottery / Shirley Jackson
subjects: fiction, horror fiction, cats, Children's fiction, short story, first-person narrative, unreliable narrators, self-hatred, gallows, Reading comprehension, Short stories, Study and teaching (Secondary), Literature, Study and teaching, Satanism, Puritans, catechism, Devil, Boys, tradition, change, death, allegory, nonlinear narrative, gentleman's agreements, recluses, Mentally ill women, English language
People: Goodman Brown, Faith Brown, Goody Cloyse, Devil, Emily Grierson, Homer Barron, Mr. Grierson, Tobe, Colonel Sartoris
Places: New England, Salem Village, Massachusetts, Jefferson, Mississippi, Yoknapatawpha County
Times: 1600s, Antebellum era