The Fall of the House of Usher (Edgar Allan Poe) Rappaccini's Daughter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman) The Real Thing (Henry James) The Open Boat (Stephen Crane) Paul's Case (Willa Cather) To Builda Fire (Jack London) The Other Woman (Sherwood Anderson) Blood-Burning Moon (Jean Toomer) The Killers (Ernest Hemingway) That Evening Sun (William Faulkner) Babylon Revisited (F. Scott Fitzgerald) The Fig Tree (Katherine Anne Porter) The Leonardo (Vladimir Nabokov) "That in Aleppo Once..." (Vladimir Nabokov) Good Country People(Flannery O’Connor) Defender of the Faith(Philip Roth) Black Is My Favorite Color(Bernard Malamud) The Swimmer(John Cheever) Where Are You Going,Where Have You Been?(Joyce Carol Oates) How I Contemplated the World(Joyce Carol Oates) Lost in the Funhouse(John Barth) Everyday Use:for your grandmama(Alice Walker) The Ones Who WalkAway from Omelas(Ursula K.e Guin) A Silver Dish(Saul Bellow) WhatWeTalk aboutWhenWeTalk aboutLove(RaymondCarver) Janus(Ann Beattie) The Way We Live Now(Susan Sontag) Appendix:Glossary of Literary Terms Bibliography