MASTERPLOTS II

SHORT STORY SERIES REVISED EDITION Volume 3 Esm-Hor

Editor, Revised Edition CHARLES MAY California State University, Long Beach

Editor, First Edition FRANK N. MAGILL

SALEM PRESS Pasadena, California Hackerisack, New Jersey TABLE OF CONTENTS

page Esmeralda—Roberta Fernandez 1203 Esther—Jean Toomer 1206 Ethan Brand—Nathaniel Hawthorne 1209 Europe—HenryJames 1212 The Eve of the Spirit Festival—Lan Samantha Chang 1215 Eveline—James Joyce 1218 Evening in Paris—Denise Chavez ,. . . 1221 An Evening Performance—George Garrett 1224 Everyday Use—Alice Walker 1228 Everything in This Country Must—Colum McCann 1231 Everything That Rises Must Converge—Flannery O'Connor 1234 Excerpts from Swan Lake—Peter Cameron 1238 Exchange Value—Charles Johnson 1241 An Experiment in Misery—Stephen Crane 1244

A Fable—Robert Fox 1248 The Faces of Blood Kindred— William Goyen 1251 Faith in a Tree—Grace Paley 1255 The Faithful Wife—Morley Callaghan 1259 The Fall—Alberto Moravia 1262 The Fall of the House of Usher—Edgar Allan Poe 1265 The Falling Girl—Dino Buzzati 1269 The Falls—George Saunders 1272 A Family Affair—Guy de Maupassant 1275 A Family Supper—Kazuo Ishiguro 1278 The Fancy Woman—PeterTaylor 1281 The Farm—Joy Williams 1285 The Fat Girl—AndreDubus 1288 The Fat Man in History—PeterCarey 1291 The Fat of the Land—Anzia Yezierska 1294 Father and I—Par Lagerkvist 1297 AFather-to-Be—SaulBellow 1300 Fathers—Robley Wilson 1303 The Father's Daughters—Muriel Spark 1306 A Father's Story—AndreDubus 1310 Faustino—MaxMartinez 1313 Female Trouble—Antonya Nelson 1317 Fern—JeanToomer 1321

xlix MASTERPLOTS II page Fever—John Edgar Wideman 1324 The Field of Blue Children—Tennessee Williams 1327 The Field of Mustard—A. E.Coppard 1330 Fiesta, \9%Q—JunotDiaz 1333 The Fight—Dylan Thomas 1337 The Figure in the Carpet—Henry James 1340 The Final Proof of Fate and Circumstance—Lee K.Abbott 1343 Finding Natasha—Madison Smartt Bell 1346 Finding the Chain—Mary Hood 1349 The Fireman's Wife—Richard Bausch 1352 First, Body—Melanie Rae Thon 1356 First Communion—Tomds Rivera 1359 First Confession—Frank O'Connor 1362 First Dark—Elizabeth Spencer 1365 First Love and Other Sorrows—Harold Brodkey 1368 First Love, Last Rites—IanMcEwan 1371 Firstborn—Larry Woiwode 1374 The Fisherman from Chihuahua—Evan S. Connell, Jr. 1377 Fitting Ends—Dan Chaon 1380 The Five-Forty-Eight—John Cheever 1383 Five-Twenty—Patrick White 1386 Flesh and the Mirror—Angela Carter 1390 Fleur—Louise Erdrich 1393 Flight—John Steinbeck 1396 Floating Bridge—Alice Munro 1399 The Flood—Joy Harjo 1402 Flowering Judas—Katherine Anne Porter 1405 Flowers for Algernon—Daniel Keyes 1409 The Fly—Katherine Mansfield 1413 Flying Home—Ralph Ellison 1416 Footfalls—Wi/fewr Daniel Steele 1421 ForEsme—with Love and Squalor—J.D.Salinger 1424 Forgiveness—Edna O'Brien 1427 The Forks—J.F Powers 1430 Frazer Avenue—Guy Garcia 1433 The Freshest Boy—F. Scott Fitzgerald 1436 A Friend of Kafka—Isaac Bashevis Singer 1440 Frog Dances—Stephen Dixon 1443 The Funes Memorious—Jorge Luis Borges 1446 The Fur Coat—SednO'Faoldin 1449 The Furnished Room— O. Henry 1452 TABLE OF CONTENTS page Games at Twilight—Anita Desai 1456 The Garden of Forking Paths—Jorge Luis Borges 1459 The Garden-Party—Katherine Mansfield 1462 The Gardener—Rudyard Kipling 1466 The Gardens of Mont-Saint-Michel—William Maxwell 1469 Generous Wine—ItaloSvevo 1472 Gent—Rick DeMarinis 1475 The Gentleman from Cracow—Isaac Bashevis Singer 1478 The Gentleman from San Francisco—IvanBunin 1481 Geraldo No Last Name—Sandra Cisneros 1484 Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt—William Goyen 1487 The Ghost Soldiers—Tim O'Brien 1491 The Ghosts—LordDunsany 1494 TheGift—John Steinbeck 1497 The Gift of the Magi—O.Henry 1500 The Gilded Six-Bits—Zora Neale Hurston 1503 The Gilgul of Park Avenue—Nathan Englander 1506 Gimpel the Fool—Isaac Bashevis Singer 1509 The Gioconda Smile—Aldous Huxley 1512 Girl—Jamaica Kincaid 1515 The Girl in the Flammable Skirt—Aimee Bender 1518 The Girl on the Plane—Mary Gaitskill 1521 The Girl Who Left Her Sock on the Floor—Deborah Eisenberg 1524 The Girls in Their Summer Dresses—IrwinShaw 1527 GladiusDei—Thomas Mann 1531 The Glass Mountain—Donald Barthelme 1534 The Gleaner—HE. Bates 1537 Glimpse into Another Country—Wright Morris 1540 Gobseck—Honore de Balzac 1543 Gogol'sWife—Tommaso Landolfi 1547 Going—AmyHempel 1551 Going After Cacciato—TimO'Brien 1554 Going Ashore—Mavis Gallant 1557 Going Home—William Trevor 1560 Going to Meet the Man—James Baldwin 1563 The Gold-Bug—Edgar Allan Poe 1567 GoldCoast—James Alan McPherson 1571 The Golden Apple of Eternal Desire—Milan Kundera 1574 The Golden Honeymoon—RingLardner 1577 The Gonzaga Manuscripts—Saul Bellow . 1580 Good Advice Is Rarer than Rubies—Salman Rushdie 1583 Good Country People—Flannery O'Connor 1586 MASTERPLOTS II page A Good Man Is Hard to Find—Flannery O'Connor 1589 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain—Robert Olen Butler 1593 Goodbye, My Brother—JohnCheever 1596 The Goophered Grapevine—Charles Waddell Chesnutt 1600 Gooseberries—Anton Chekhov 1603 Gorilla, My Love—Toni Cade Bambara 1606 The Gospel According to Mark—Jorge Luis Borges 1609 Gospel Singers—Langston Hughes 1612 Grace—James Joyce 1615 La Grande Breteche—Honore de Balzac 1618 Graphomaniacs—AbramTertz 1621 The Grasshopper and the Cricket—Yasunari Kawabata 1624 TheGrave—Katherine Anne Porter 1627 Graveyard Day—Bobbie Ann Mason 1630 Gravity—David Leavitt 1633 Greasy Lake—T. Coraghessan Boyle 1636 The Great Beyond—Cyprian Ekwensi 1639 The Great Good Place—Henry James 1642 The Great Wall of China—Franz Kafica 1645 The Great Wave—MaryLavin 1649 The Greek Interpreter—Arthur Conan Doyle 1652 Green Tea—Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1655 Greenleaf—Flannery O'Connor 1659 Greyhound People—Alice Adams 1663 Gryphon—Charles Baxter 1666 The Guest—Albert Camus 1669 Guests of the Nation—Frank O'Connor 1672 The Gun Shop—John Updike 1675 Gusev—Anton Chekhov 1678 Gussuk—MeiMeiEvans 1681 Guy de Maupassant—Isaac Babel 1684

Haircut—Ring Lardner 1688 The Half-Skinned Steer—E. Annie Proulx 1691 The Halfway Diner—John Sayles 1694 Hamlet of the Shchigrovsky District—IvanTurgenev 1697 The Hammer of God—G.K.Chesterton 1701 The Hammon and the Beans—Americo Paredes 1704 Hands—Sherwood Anderson 1707 The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World— Gabriel Garcia Mdrquez 1710 Happiness—MaryLavin 1713

lii TABLE OF CONTENTS page Happy August the Tenth—Tennessee Williams 1716 The Happy Autumn Fields—Elizabeth Bowen 1719 Harmony—RingLardner 1723 Harrison Bergeron—KurtVonnegut 1726 A Haunted House—Virginia Woolf 1729 The Headless Hawk—Truman Capote 1732 Health—Joy Williams 1735 The Heart of the Artichoke—Herbert Gold 1738 Heat—Joyce Carol Oates 1741 The Hector Quesadilla Story—T. Coraghessan Boyle 1744 Helix—Mahoko Yoshimoto 1747 Helping—Robert Stone 1750 Her First Ball—Katherine Mansfield 1754 Her Quaint Honor—Caroline Gordon 1757 Her Sweet Jerome—Alice Walker 1760 Her Table Spread-—Elizabeth Bowen 1763 Herakleitos—Guy Davenport 1766 The Hermit's Story—Rick Bass 1769 Herodias—Gustave Flaubert 1772 The Heroes in the Dark House—Benedict Kiely 1776 He's at the Office—Allan Gurganus 1779 The Higgler—A. E. Coppard 1782 Hills Like White Elephants—Ernest Hemingway 1785 The Hint of an Explanation—Graham Greene 1789 His Final Mother—Reynolds Price 1792 His Son, in His Arms, in Light, Aloft—Harold Brodkey 1795 The Hitchhiking Game—Milan Kundera 1799 Hodel—SholomAleichem 1802 Homage for Isaac Babel—Doris Lessing 1806 Home—Jayne Anne Phillips 1809 HomeSickness—George Moore 1812 Homeland—Barbara Kingsolver 1815 An Honest Thief—Fyodor Dostoevski 1818 Hook— Walter Van Tilburg Clark 1821 TheHorla—Guy de Maupassant 1824

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