1 INTENTIONS AND ELEMENTS OF FICTION
Francis Parkman
THE, ATTACK ON THE FORT
Samuel Clemens
CAPTAIN ISAIAH SELLERS
Giovanni Verga
GRAMIGNA'S LOVER
James Thurber
THE SECRET UFE OF WALTER MITrY
Nathanlel Hawthorne
YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN

2 WHAT PLOT REVEALS
O. Henry
THE FURNISHED ROOM
Anton Chekhov
VANKA
Contents
John Collier
DE MORTUlS
Ambrose Bierce
AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE
Isaac Babel
CROSSING INTO POLAND
Guy de Maupassant
THE NECKLACE
Luigi Pirandello
WAR
Rudyard Kipling
THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING

3 WHAT CHARACTER REVEALS
Bret Harte
TEN NESSEE'S PARTNER
James loyce
ARABY
Ivan Turgenev
THE DISTRICT DOCTOR
Carson McCullers
THE SOJOURNER
Frank O'Connor
THE DRUNKARD
D. H. Lawrence
TICKETS, PLEASE
Ring Lardner
HAIRCUT

4 WHAT THEME REVEALS
Guy de Maupassant
LOVE: THREE PAGES FROM A SPORTSMAN'S BOOK
Jesse Stuart
LOVE
Ernest Hemingway
THE KILLERS
Sherwood Anderson
DEATH IN THE WOODS
Richard Wright
THE MAN WHO WAS ALMOST A MAN
William Faulkner
A ROSE FOR EMILY
Flannery O'Connor
A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND

5 THE NEW FICTION
Julio Cortazar
CONTINUITY OF PARKS
Jorge Luis Borges
THE MEETING
Alain Robbe-Grillet
THE SECRET ROOM
Joyce Carol Oates
Z9 INVENTIONS
Peter Taylor
THE HAND OF EMMAGENE
Donald Barthelme
THE BALLOON

6 FICTION AND HUMAN EXPERIENCE
Eudora Welty
NO PLACE FOR YOU, MY LOVE
Eudora Welty
HOW I WRITE
Katherine Anne Porter
NOON WINE
Katherine Anne Porter
"NOON WINE": THE SOURCES
Robert Penn Warren
BLACKBERRY WINTER
Robert Penn Warren
"BLACKBERRY WINTER": A RECOLLECTION

7 STORIES FOR READING
Jean Toomer
FERN, 383
Ralph Ellison
THE BATTLE ROYAL
Thomas Wolfe
THE FAR AND THE NEAR
Colette
THE BITCH
Bernard Malamud
THE MAGIC BARREL
Marcel Ayme
DERMUCHE
Doris Lessing
THE BLACK MADONNA