The Best Short Stories of the Modern Age

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[Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W)/ Edgar Allan Poe The jewels / Guy de Maupassant Gooseberries / Anton Chekhov The tree of knowledge / Henry James A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway Youth / Joseph Conrad The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence Bliss / Katherine Mansfield [The dead](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15073437W) / James Joyce Little Herr Friedemann / Thomas Mann Sophistication / Sherwood Anderson The story of my dovecot / Isaac Babel The devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benét [A rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W) / William Faulkner The metamorphosis (part I) / Franz Kafka The wall / Jean-Paul Sartre Judas / Frank O'Connor Of this time, of that place / Lionel Trilling The lottery / Shirley Jackson The ledge / Lawrence Sargent Hall

subjects: tradition,  change,  death,  short stories,  allegory,  nonlinear narrative,  gentleman's agreements,  recluses,  Mentally ill women,  Fiction,  20th century English fiction,  British and irish fiction,  christian fiction,  Christmas,  Christmas fiction,  Christmas stories,  Criticism and interpretation,  Daily Express,  Domestic fiction,  English fiction,  family life,  Family reunions,  Short story,  Stories (texts),  The Lass of Aughrim,  Three Graces,  West Britons,  Irish literature,  American Horror tales,  American literature,  Children's fiction,  Classic Literature,  Crime,  Crime fiction,  Detective and mystery stories,  first-person narrative,  Gothic fiction,  Homicide,  Horror,  Horror fiction,  Horror stories,  Horror tales,  Hyperesthesia,  Juvenile fiction,  Murder

People: Gabriel Conroy,  Kate Morkan,  Julia Morkan,  Mary Jane Morkan,  Lily,  Gretta Conroy,  Molly Ivors,  Mr Browne,  Freddy Malins,  Mrs Malins,  Bartell D'Arcy,  Patrick Morkan,  Michael Furey,  PEOPLE Emily Grierson,  Homer Barron,  Mr. Grierson,  Tobe,  Colonel Sartoris,  Sherwood Anderson,  Anton Chekov,  Joseph Conrad (1857-1924),  Shirley Jackson,  D.H. Lawrence,  Katherine Mansfield,  Lionel Trilling

Places: Ireland,  Galway,  Jefferson,  Mississippi,  Yoknapatawpha County

Times: Antebellum era