The Harbrace Anthology of Short Fiction

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Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- [The black cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- [Bartleby, the scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W) / Herman Melville -- [The story of an hour](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078864W) / Kate Chopin -- An outpost of progress / Joseph Conrad -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The open boat / Stephen Crane -- [Araby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20570121W) / James Joyce -- The horse dealer's daughter / D.H. Lawrence -- Bliss / Katherine Mansfield -- Rope / Katherine Anne Porter -- [A rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W) / William Faulkner -- A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway -- The lamp at noon / Sinclair Ross -- Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty -- My heart is broken / Mavis Gallant -- The loons / Margaret Laurence -- Dulse / Alice Munro -- Inland passage / Jane Rule -- A & P / John Updike -- Fogbound in Avalon / Elizabeth McGrath -- The conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth -- The motor car / Austin C. Clarke -- The concert stages of Europe / Jack Hodgins -- The resplendent quetzal / Margaret Atwood -- The tenant / Bharati Mukherjee -- Borders / Thomas King -- Everyday use / Alice Walker -- The naked man / Greg Hollingshead -- Cages / Guy Vanderhaeghe -- Two kinds / Amy Tan.

subjects: Social life and customs,  Manners and customs,  Fiction,  short story,  horror fiction,  cats,  Children's fiction,  first-person narrative,  unreliable narrators,  self-hatred,  gallows,  Young men,  Copyists,  classic literature,  Psychology,  Securities industry,  history and criticism,  freedom,  selfhood,  self-fulfillment,  meaning of love,  tradition,  change,  death,  short stories,  allegory,  nonlinear narrative,  gentleman's agreements,  recluses,  Mentally ill women,  English short stories

People: Giacomo Rappaccini,  Giovanni Guasconti,  Beatrice Rappaccini,  Bartleby,  Turkey,  Nippers,  Ginger Nut,  John Jacob Astor,  Cicero,  Louise Mallard,  Brently Mallard,  Josephine,  Richards,  Mangan's sister,  Emily Grierson,  Homer Barron,  Mr. Grierson,  Tobe,  Colonel Sartoris

Places: Padua,  India,  Italy,  University of Padua,  New York,  Wall Street,  Mallard residence,  Araby,  North Richmond Street,  Araby bazaar,  Jefferson,  Mississippi,  Yoknapatawpha County

Times: 19th century,  Antebellum era