The Norton Introduction to Fiction

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The zebra storyteller / Spencer Holst No one's a mystery / Elizabeth Tallent The jewelry / Guy de Maupassant [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) / Edgar Allan Poe Sonny's blues / James Baldwin The whirlpool rapids / Margaret Atwood [Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge) / Ambrose Bierce A [rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W) / William Faulkner The summer my grandmother was supposed to die / Mordecai Richler My man Bovanne / Toni Cade Bambara The real thing / Henry James Our friend Judith / Doris Lessing The country husband / John Cheever A pair of tickets / Amy Tan The lady with the dog / Anton Chekhov [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne The termitary / Nadine Gordimer Janus / Ann Beattie How much land does a man need? / Leo Tolstoy Her first ball / Katherine Mansfield Beyond the Pale / William Trevor The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad Love medicine / Louise Erdrich Odour of Chrysanthemums The rocking-horse winner / D. H. Lawrence The lame shall enter first Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor [Araby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20570121W) / James Joyce Boys and girls / Alice Munro The old people / William Faulkner A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez The eye altering / Ursula K. Le Guin The garden of forking paths / Jorge Luis Borges [Most Dangerous Game](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5278311W) / Richard Connell [Barn burning](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20080279W) / William Faulkner The management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee The death of Ivan Ilyich / Leo Tolstoy [Beyond the bayou](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14943640W) / Kate Chopin The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman A hunger artist / Franz Kafka The fig tree / Katherine Anne Porter A clean well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway A conversation with my father / Grace Paley The Kugelmass episode / Woody Allen The Redtown chronicles / Luisa Valenzuela Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason Great Falls / Richard Ford Girl / Jamaica

subjects: Fiction,  Hunting,  Islands,  survival of the fittest,  animal trapping,  trapping pits,  knouts,  hunting dogs,  Cossacks,  deaf-mutes,  snow leopards,  jaguars,  Juvenile fiction,  Hunting stories,  Juvenile works,  Human hunting,  Big game sport,  Travel fiction,  Collections,  Fiction collections,  Children's fiction,  Classic Literature,  Crime,  Detective and mystery stories,  Horror stories,  Revenge,  tradition,  change,  death,  short stories,  allegory,  nonlinear narrative,  gentleman's agreements,  recluses,  Mentally ill women,  Satanism,  short story,  Puritans,  catechism,  Devil,  Boys,  class conflict,  Social life and customs,  History,  Juvenile audience,  civil war,  hanging,  American Civil War,  Confederate States of America,  Union

People: Sanger Rainsford,  General Zaroff,  Whitney,  Ivan,  The Great White Czar,  Peyton Farquhar,  Montresor,  Fortunato,  Luchresi,  Lady Fortunato,  Emily Grierson,  Homer Barron,  Mr. Grierson,  Tobe,  Colonel Sartoris,  Goodman Brown,  Faith Brown,  Goody Cloyse,  Devil,  Mangan's sister,  Sartoris Snopes,  Abner Snopes,  Lennie Snopes,  Lizzie,  Major de Spain,  Mr. Harris,  Jacqueline,  French,  P’tit Maître,  Old Mis',  Cheri,  Doctor Bonfils,  Tante,  Chéri’s mother

Places: Caribbean,  Amazon rainforest,  Ship-Trap Island,  Tibet,  United States,  Alabama,  Owl Creek Bridge,  Jefferson,  Mississippi,  Yoknapatawpha County,  New England,  Salem Village,  Massachusetts,  Araby,  North Richmond Street,  Araby bazaar,  Justice of the Peace Court,  Louisiana,  La Folle's cabin,  Bellissime

Times: Carnival,  Antebellum era,  1600s,  19th century,  1861-65,  20th century