Following is a list of short stories that will prepare you for reading the first text of the year, How to Read Literature Like a Professor. We'll be reading many of these during class, but the "Professor" book will make a little more sense if you've read these stories ahead of time. Each of the stories is available online, which means they may disappear without warning, and although there may be typos, you should be able to figure them out. (Post a comment/e-mail me if you discover a story to be missing.)
Enjoy!
Araby - James Joyce
The Arrow of Heaven - G.K. Chesterton
Barn Burning - William Faulkner
The Dead - James Joyce
Cathedral - Raymond Carver
Daisy Miller - Henry James
The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe
The Gingerbread House - Robert Coover (The story is the 42 numbered sections on the left-hand side of the page; ignore the ads.)
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
The Overcoat - Nikolai Gogol
Rip Van Winkle - Washington Irving
Rocking-Horse Winner - D.H. Lawrence
Sonny's Blues - James Baldwin
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Why I Live at the P.O. - Eudora Welty
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