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Short Story Review (one short story unit randomly selected)

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Easier Stort Story Literature Units

James Fenimore Cooper		The Eclipse
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle		The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
The Brothers Grimm		The Adventures of Aladdin
O. Henry		After Twenty Years
Rudyard Kipling		How the Camel Got His Hump
		How The Leopard Got His Spots
Guy de Maupassant		The Vendetta
Mark Twain		The Californian's Tale

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High School Level Stort Story Literature Units

H.H. Munro (Saki)		The Mouse
		Sredni Vashtar
Louisa May Alcott		A Country Christmas
		Kitty's Class Day
		How I Went Out to Service
		Scarlet Stockings
		A Modern Cinderella Or, The Little Old Shoe
		May Flowers
Thomas Bailey Aldrich		The Cruise of the Dolphin
Julia Alvarez		The Daughter of Invention
Hans Christian Andersen		The Little Mermaid
Sherwood Anderson		The Egg
		Sophistication
		The Strength of God
		I Want to Know Why
		The Dumb Man
		War
		Brothers
		The Other Woman
Lucius Apuleius		Cupid and Psyche
Stephen Vincent Benet		The Devil and Daniel Webster
		By the Waters of Babylon
Ambros Bierce		My Favourite Murder
Ambrose Bierce		Present at a Hanging
		A Horseman in the Sky
		Beyond the Wall
		The Boarded Window
		Chickamauga
		One Summer Night
		One Of The Missing
		What I Saw of Shiloh
		An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Paul Bowles		In the Red Room
Ray Bradbury		All Summer in a Day
		There Will Come Soft Rains
		The Utterly Perfect Murder
		The Pedestrian
Truman Capote		A Christmas Memory
Raymond Carver		Everything Stuck to Him
Willa Cather		Paul's Case
		A Wagner Matinee
		The Sculptor's Funeral
		A Death in the Desert
		Jack-a-Boy
		The Burglar's Christmas
		The Garden Lodge
Anton Chekhov		The Bet
		The Schoolmistress
		The Shoemaker and the Devil
		The Lady with the Little Dog
		A Story Without a Title
		Grisha
		A Father
		Difficult People
		Old Age
		Sorrow
		The Looking-Glass
		A Joke
		Small Fry
		The Student
		About Love
		A Dead Body
		A Bad Business
		Expensive Lessons
		A Classical Student
		A Happy Man
		A Misfortune
		The Doctor
		The Beggar
		Art
		Terror
		Uprooted
		A Transgression
		Champagne
		Easter Eve
		A Lady's Story
		The Cossack
		A Pink Stocking
		Nerves
		Darkness
		The Runaway
		Children
		An Upheaval
		A Trivial Incident
		Ariadne
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov		A Day in the Country
		A Slander
Charles W. Chesnutt		The Sheriff's Children
Kate Chopin		A Pair of Silk Stockings
		The Storm
		The Locket
		A Reflection
		A Respectable Woman
		Desiree's Baby
		Regret
		The Story of an Hour
Agatha Christie		Wasps' Nest
Richard Connell		The Most Dangerous Game
James Fenimore Cooper		The Lake Gun
Robert Cormier		The Mustache
Stephen Crane		A Mystery of Heroism
		A Desertion
		A Dark Brown Dog
		An Ominous Baby
		The Veteran
Roald Dahl		Lamb to the Slaughter
		The Landlady
		Beware of the Dog
		Man From the South
Fielding Dawson		The Vertical Fields
Charles Dickens		The Baron of Grogzwig
		The Poor Relation's Story
		Nobody's Story
Arthur Conan Doyle		His Last Bow
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle		Copper Beeches
		A Case of Identity
		The Adventure of the Speckled Band
		The Red-Headed League
Ralph Ellison		Battle Royal
William Faulkner		Barn Burning
		Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
		A Rose For Emily
Edna Ferber		Long Distance
		The Leading Lady
		The Three of Them
		The Eldest
		That's Marriage
		The Woman Who Tried to Be Good
		What She Wore
		The Kitchen Side of the Door
		Chickens
		Catching Up With Christmas
		Ain't Nature Wonderful!
		The Frog and the Puddle
Jack Finney		Of Missing Persons
F. Scott Fitzgerald		Bernice Bobs Her Hair
		Winter Dreams
Ambrose Flack		The Strangers That Came to Town
E. M. Forster		The Story of the Siren
		Mr. Andrews
		The Eternal Moment
James Anthony Froude		The Farmer and the Fox
Mona Gardner		The Dinner Party
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell		The Old Nurse's Story
Elizabeth Gaskell		The Half-Brothers
		The Manchester Marriage
Charlotte Perkins Gilman		The Yellow Wallpaper
Graham Greene		The End of the Party
Edward Everett Hale		The Man without a Country
Thomas Hardy		Squire Petrick's Lady
		An Imaginative Woman
Bret Harte		The Luck of Roaring Camp
		The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Nathaniel Hawthorne		Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
		Young Goodman Brown
		The Birthmark
		Rappaccini's Daughter
		The Wives of the Dead
		The Ambitious Guest
		David Swan
		Mrs. Bullfrog
		The Great Carbuncle
		Wakefield
		The Gray Champion
		Feathertop
		Alice Doane's Appeal
		The Great Stone Face
		Ethan Brand
		The Minister's Black Veil
Ernest Hemingway		Soldier's Home
		The Killers
		In Another Country
		The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
		The Old Man at the Bridge
O. Henry		The Ransom of Red Chief
		The Furnished Room
		The Green Door
		The Cop and the Anthem
		Last Leaf
		The Roads We Take
		The Coming-Out of Maggie
		Buried Treasure
		Memoirs of a Yellow Dog
		Springtime a la Carte
		Between Rounds
		The Princess and the Puma
		A Chaparral Prince
		The Hiding of Black Bill
		Hearts and Crosses
		A Blackjack Bargainer
		Transients in Arcadia
		The Skylight Room
		The Purple Dress
		Mammon and the Archer
		Girl
		The Cactus
		Schools and Schools
		The Whirligig Of Life
		Best-Seller
		The Dog and the Playlet
		No Story
		Christmas by Injunction
		Proof of the Pudding
		What You Want
		An Unfinished Story
		The Call of the Tame
		Babes in the Jungle
		The Gold That Glittered
		The Unknown Quantity
		The Duel
		The Girl and the Habit
		A Municipal Report
		Compliments of the Season
		Psyche and the Pskyscraper
		The Fifth Wheel
		A Bird of Bagdad
		One Dollar's Worth
		A Chaparral Christmas Gift
		A Night in New Arabia
		Blind Man's Holiday
		The Gift of the Magi
Patrick Henry		Speech in the Virginia Convention
Edward D. Hoch		The Last Unicorns
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffman		The Cremona Violin
Langston Hughes		Thank You, M'am
Evan Hunter		The Last Spin
James Hurst		The Scarlet Ibis
Washington Irving		The Devil and Tom Walker
		The Specter Bridegroom
		The Stout Gentleman
		Rip Van Winkle
Shirley Jackson		After You My Dear Alphonse
		The Lottery
W.W. Jacobs		Odd Man Out
		Bill's Lapse
		Admiral Peters
		Friends in Need
		Good Intentions
		Watch-Dogs
		Fairy Gold
		The Guardian Angel
		The Castaway
		For Better or Worse
		Double Dealing
		Her Uncle
		Captain Rogers
		Alf's Dream
		The Dreamer
		Lawyer Quince
		Sentence Deferred
		Manners Makyth Man
		A Tiger's Skin
		The Well
		Matrimonial Openings
		A Distant Relative
		The Toll-House
		A Circular Tour
		Angels' Visits
		Breaking a Spell
		A Love-Knot
		A Mixed Proposal
		The Monkey's Paw
Henry James		The Real Thing
		Turn of the Screw
		The Middle Years
Thomas Jefferson		Declaration of Independence
Jerome K. Jerome		A Ghost Story
Sarah Orne Jewett		A White Heron
		Decoration Day
		The White Rose Road
James Joyce		Clay
		Counterparts
		The Dead
		After the Race
		An Encounter
		Araby
		Eveline
		The Boarding House
		Two Gallants
		A Little Cloud
Franz Kafka		A Country Doctor
Yasunari Kawabata		The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket
Rudyard Kipling		Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
		The Man Who Would Be King
		The Man Who Was
Ring Lardner		Haircut
		The Golden Honeymoon
D.H. Lawrence		The Rocking Horse Winner
Doris Lessing		Through The Tunnel
Abraham Lincoln		Gettysburg Address
		The Emancipation Proclamation
Jack London		In a Far Country
		The God of His Fathers
		Aloha Oe
		The Sickness of Lone Chief
		When Alice Told Her Soul
		Brown Wolf
		When the World Was Young
		The League of the Old Men
		A Nose For the King
		Amateur Night
		All Gold Canyon
		To Build A Fire
		A Wicked Woman
Katherine Mansfield		The Stranger
		The Garden Party
		Miss Brill
		The Fly
		Bliss
		The Man Without A Temperament
		The Lady's Maid
		The Singing Lesson
		The Voyage
		The Young Girl
		An Ideal Family
		Bank Holiday
		Mr. and Mrs. Dove
		Her First Ball
		Marriage a la Mode
		The Little Girl
		Ole Underwood
		Millie
		Violet
		The Woman at the Store
		New Dresses
		Germans at Meat
Gabriel Garcia Marquez		Eyes of a Blue Dog
		One of These Days
Somerset Maugham		The Verger
Guy de Maupassant		A Ghost
		The Hand
		Friend Patience
		The Hairpin
		Two Friends
		The Donkey
		The Dowry
		The Wolf
		The Adopted Son
		After
		A Father's Confession
		The Log
		Farewell
		At Sea
		The Terror
		The Kiss
		A Coward
		A Dead Woman's Secret
		Bellflower
		Coco
		The Unknown
		An Affair of State
		Mademoiselle Fifi
		A Cremation
		The Inn
		The Devil
		The Impolite Sex
		The Accursed Bread
		My Uncle Jules
		The Artist
		Countess Satan
		An Unfortunate Likeness
		The Diary of a Madman
		The Sequel to a Divorce
		Simon's Papa
		In Various Roles
		Was It a Dream?
		That Pig of a Morin
		Epiphany
		The Hole
		Indiscretion
		The Christening
		A Family
		Humiliation
		Lasting Love
		The Necklace
David McLean		Marine Corps Issue
Herman Melville		The Lightning-Rod Man
		The Piazza
		The Fiddler
		Bartleby, The Scrivener
Frank O'Connnor		The Drunkard
Flannery O'Connor		The Life You Save May Be Your Own
		A Good Man Is Hard To Find
		Everything that Rises Must Converge
Frank O'Connor		First Confession
		My Oedipus Complex
Liam O'Flaherty		The Sniper
James O'Keefe		Death Makes a Comeback
Joyce Carol Oates		Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
George Orwell		Shooting an Elephant
Thomas Nelson Page		The Burial of the Guns
Grace Paley		Anxiety
Dorothy Parker		The Last Tea
		A Telephone Call
Edgar Allan Poe		The Fall of the House of Usher
		The Oval Portrait
		The Premature Burial
		The Man of the Crowd
		Hop-Frog or the Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs
		The Imp of the Perverse
		The Angel of the Odd
		The Black Cat
		The Pit and the Pendulum
		The Masque of the Red Death
		The Tell-Tale Heart
		The Cask of Amontillado
Edgar Allen Poe		The Purloined Letter
Katherine Anne Porter		The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Horacio Quiroga		The Feather Pillow
Majorie K. Rawlings		A Mother in Mannville
A.M. Rosenthal		There Is No News from Auschwitz
Saki		The Interlopers
		The Storyteller
		Fate
		Dusk
		The Byzantine Omelette
		The Background
		A Touch of Realism
		The Blind Spot
		The Bag
		A Defensive Diamond
		Shock Tactics
		Down Pens
		The Image of the Lost Soul
		The Wolves of Cernogratz
		The Penance
		The Baker's Dozen
		The Hounds of Fate
		Ministers of Grace
		Louis
		Louise
		The Music on the Hill
		Mark
		Tea
		The Hen
		A Bread and Butter Miss
		The Pond
		The Cobweb
		A Shot in the Dark
		Reginald on Worries
		The Quest
		The Threat
		Forewarned
		The Holy War
		Quail Seed
		Cross Currents
		For the Duration of the War
		The Romancers
		Cousin Teresa
		Esmé
		Fur
		Gabriel-Ernest
		Morlvera
		Reginald
		The Guests
		Bertie's Christmas Eve
		The Open Window
Irwin Shaw		The Girls in their Summer Dresses
Robert Louis Stevenson		Markheim
Frank Stockton		The Griffin and the Minor Canon
		The Christmas Wreck
Frank R. Stockton		The Lady or the Tiger?
Harriet Beecher Stowe		The Ghost in the Mill
Jesse Stuart		Split Cherry Tree
Amy Tan		Rules of the Game
Dylan Thomas		A Child's Christmas in Wales
James Thurber		The Princess and the Tin Box
		The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Leo Tolstoy		How Much Land Does a Man Need?
		God Sees the Truth, But Waits
		Ivan the Fool
		What Men Live By, and other tales
Mark Twain		Luck
		A Telephonic Conversation
		Was it Heaven? Or Hell?
		The Captain's Story
		Eve's Diary
		Extracts from Adam's Diary
		The Five Boons of Life
		General Washington's Negro Body-Servant
		Edward Mills and George Benton: A Tale
		The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
		My First Lie and How I Got Out of It
Kurt Vonnegut		Harrison Bergeron
Alice Walker		Everyday Use
Booker T. Washington		Early Days at Tuskegee
H.G. Wells		The Star
		The Time Machine
		The Door in the Wall
Eudora Welty		A Worn Path
Edith Wharton		Afterward
		Souls Belated
		Roman Fever
		The Other Two
E.B. White		Once More to the Lake
		The Door
Oscar Wilde		The Selfish Giant
		The Young King
		The Sphinx Without a Secret
		The Devoted Friend
		The Remarkable Rocket
		The Nightingale and the Rose
		The Model Millionaire
		The Birthday of the Infanta
		The Canterville Ghost
		The Happy Prince
William Carlos Williams		The Use of Force
Thomas Wolfe		The Far and the Near
		The Lost Boy
Tobias Wolff		Hunters in the Snow
J. Taylor Wood		The Capture of a Slaver
Patrick Henry Woodward		A Formidable Weapon
Virginia Woolf		A Haunted House
		Kew Gardens
		The Mark on the Wall
		The Duchess and the Jeweller
		A Society

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