ENGL 3670

The Short Stories

ONLINE TEXTS AND STUDY TOOLS

LINKS:

BACKGROUND TEXTS

"The Shipwrecked Sailor"  (Egypt, c. 2200 BCE)

The Book of Ruth from The Bible (click on sound button for real audio sound file) (900-500 BCE)

Grimm's Fairy Tales (Traditional German Folktales collected in the 19th century by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm)

SHORT STORIES

Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Stories  Read "Ligeia" (1838) and "The Tell-Tale Heart" (1850)

Washington Irving: "Rip Van Winkle" (1819)
"The Devil and Tom Walker" (1824)

Nathanial Hawthorne: "The Minister's Black Veil" (1836)

Assignment: Words and Pictures

Herman Melville: "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Tale of Wall Street" (1853)

Guy de Maupassant: "The Piece of String" (1883) and "The Diary of a Madman"

Anton Chekhov: "The Bet"
"The Bet" (streaming audio)

Stephen Crane: "The Dark Brown Dog" and "The Open Boat"

Kate Chopin: "Desiree's Baby"

Edith Wharton: "The Dilettante"

James Joyce: "Araby " and Dubliners (digital facsimile edition)

Virginia Woolf: Monday or Tuesday (selected stories)

F. Scott Fitzgerald: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"

Franz Kafka: "Jackals and Arabs" and "The Report for an Academy"

 


 

 

 






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