Twice-Told Tales

Description:

To build a fire, version 1 / Jack London -- To build a fire, version 2 / Jack London -- An account of the tragic death of the Willey Family -- The ambitious guest / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The child-who-was-tired / Katherine Mansfield -- Sleepy / Anton Chekhov -- From "Tricks and Defeats of Sporting Genius" / Samuel Seabough -- The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras country / Mark Twain -- Repentance / Frank O'Connor -- First confession / Frank O'Connor -- The death in the forest / Sherwood Anderson -- Death in the woods / Sherwood Anderson -- The geranium / Flannery O'Connor -- Judgement / Flannery O'Connor -- Odour of chrysanthemums, version 1 / D.H. Lawrence -- Odour of chrysanthemums, version 3 / D.H. Lawrence -- Odour of chrysanthemums, version 2, the ending / D.H. Lawrence -- The jewelry / Guy de Maupassant -- Paste / Henry James -- Boule de Suif / Guy de Maupassant -- The heroine / Isak Dinesen -- [That evening sun](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20080863W) / William Faulkner -- The killers / Ernest Hemingway -- [An occurrence at Owl Creek bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W) / Ambrose Bierce -- The secert miracle / Jorge Luis Borges -- Miriam / Truman Capote -- A little companion / Angus Wilson -- The demon lover / Elizabeth Bown -- The daemon lover / Shirley Jackson -- The phantom lover, two excerpts -- Dry September / William Faulkner -- Going to meet the man / James Baldwin -- The basement room / Graham Greene -- Next door / Kurt Vonnegut -- [William Wilson](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16088822W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad -- The eyes / Edith Wharton -- Life isn't a short story / Conrad Aiken -- The potato elf / Vladimer Nabokov -- [A painful case](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5213767W/A_Painful_Case) / James Joyce -- Barbados / Paule Marshall -- Death of a travelling salesman / Eudora Welty -- Beggar my neighbor / Dan Jacobson -- Awakening / Isaac Babel -- [Young goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The judgement / Franz Kafka -- King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison -- Night-sea journey / John Barth.

subjects: Satanism,  Fiction,  short story,  Puritans,  catechism,  College readers,  Short stories,  African Americans,  husband and wife,  race relations,  History,  United States Civil War,  Classic Literature,  hanging,  Confederacy,  Union,  Juvenile audience,  civil war,  American Civil War,  Confederate States of America,  aristocracy

People: Goodman Brown,  Faith Brown,  Goody Cloyse,  Devil,  Quentin Compson,  Nancy,  Caddy,  Jason,  Dilsey,  Jesus,  Mrs. Compson,  Mr. Stovall,  Jailer,  Mr. Lovelady,  Peyton Farquhar,  James Duffy,  Emily Sinico,  William Wilson

Places: Jefferson,  United States,  Alabama,  Owl Creek Bridge,  Dublin,  Chapelizod,  New England,  Salem Village,  Massachusetts,  England,  Eton College,  Oxford,  University of Oxford,  Rome

Times: Civil War,  1861-1865,  American Civil War,  19th century,  1600s,  1861-65