MASTERPLOTS II Volume 5

MASTERPLOTS II

SHORT STORY SERIES REVISED EDITION Volume 5 Loo-Ope

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

Editor, First Edition FRANK N. MAGILL

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

page Looking for Mr. Green—Saul Bellow 2435 The Loons—Margaret Laurence 2438 The Lost Boy—Thomas Wolfe 2441 Lost in the Funhouse—JohnBarth 2444 The Lost Phoebe—Theodore Dreiser 2447 The Lottery—Shirley Jackson 2450 The Lottery in Babylon—Jorge Luis Borges 2453 The Loudest Voice—Grace Paley 2456 Love—Guy de Maupassant 2459 The Love Decoy—S.J.Perelman 2462 The Love of a Good Woman—Alice Munro 2465 The Lover of Horses—Tess Gallagher 2468 The Luck of Roaring Camp—BretHarte 2471 Lullaby—Leslie Marmon Silko 2474 Lust—Susan Minot 2477 Lyubka the Cossack—IsaacBabel 2480

Madame Celestin's Divorce—Kate Chopin 2483 Madame Tellier's Establishment—Guy de Maupassant 2486 Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland—Carson McCullers . 2489 Ma'Dear—7erry McMillan 2493 Mademoiselle Fifi—Guy de Maupassant 2496 The Madness of Doctor Montarco—Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo 2499 The Magic Barrel—Bernard Malamud 2502 Maiden in a Tower—Wallace Stegner 2505 Mammon and the Archer—O. Henry 2508 The Man from Mars—Margaret Atwood 2511 The Man in a Case—AntonChekhov 2514 The Man in the Black Suit—StephenKing 2517 The Man of the World—Frank O 'Connor 2520 The Man That Corrupted Yi&dleyburg—Mark Twain 2523 The Man to Send Rain Clouds—Leslie Marmon Silko 2526 The Man Who Became a Woman—Sherwood Anderson 2529 The Man Who Could Work Miracles—H.G.Weils 2532 The Man Who Found a Pistol—Rudolfo A. Anaya 2535 The Man Who Invented Sin—SednO'Faoldin. . 2538 The Man Who Knew Belle Starr—Richard Bausch 2541 The Man Who Lived Underground—Richard Wright .. . 2544

lxxiii MASTERPLOTS II page The Man Who Loved Islands—D.H.Lawrence 2547 The Man Who Studied Yoga—Norman Mailer 2550 The Man Who Was Almost a Man—Richard Wright 2553 The Man Who Would Be King—Rudyard Kipling 2556 The Man with the Dog—Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 2559 The Man with the Lapdog—BethLordan 2562 Man, Woman and Boy—Stephen Dixon 2565 The Management of Grief—Bharati Mukherjee 2568 Ms. Found in a Bottle—Edgar Allan Poe 2571 Many Are Disappointed—V. S. Pritchett 2574 Margins—Donald Barthelme 2577 Maria Conception—Katherine Anne Porter 2580 The Marijuana Party—Mary Helen Ponce 2583 Mario and the Magician—Thomas Mann 2586 MarjorieDaw—Thomas Bailey Aldrich 2589 The Mark on the Wall— Virginia Woolf 2592 Markheim—Robert Louis Stevenson 2596 The Marquise of O HeinrichvonKleist 2599 Marriage a la Mode—Katherine Mansfield 2604 The Masque of the Red Death—Edgar Allan Poe 2608 Master and Man—Leo Tolstoy 2611 Mateo Falcone—Prosper Merimee 2615 Matryona's House—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 2618 May Day—F. Scott Fitzgerald 2622 Medusa's Ankles—A. S. Byatt 2626 A Meeting in the Dark—NgugiwaThiong'o 2630 Melungeons—Chris Offutt 2633 Memories of the Space Age—J.G.Ballard 2636 A Memory—Eudora Welty 2639 Men Under Water—Ralph Lombreglia 2642 Meneseteung—Alice Munro 2645 Metamorphoses—JohnCheever 2648 The Metamorphosis—Franz Kafka 2651 Midair—Frank Conroy 2655 The Middle Years—Henry James 2658 Midnight Mass—Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis 2661 Midsummer Night Madness—SednO'Faoldin 2664 Migrants—Elizabeth Tallent 2668 The Minister's Black Veil—Nathaniel Hawthorne 2671 Minor Heroism—Allan Gurganus 2675 Miracle Boy—Pinckney Benedict 2679 The Miracle of the Birds—Jorge Amado 2682

lxxiv TABLE OF CONTENTS page Miriam—Truman Capote 2686 Mirrors—Cawl Shields 2689 Misery—-Anton Chekhov 2692 Miss Brill—Katherine Mansfield 2695 Miss Cynthie—Rudolph Fisher 2699 Miss Leonora When Last Seen—Peter Taylor 2702 Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself—Radclyffe Hall 2705 Miss Tempy's Watchers—Sarah Orne Jewett 2708 Moccasin Game—GeraldVizenor 2710 The Mole—Yasunari Kawabata 2713 The Monkey—IsakDinesen 2716 The Monkey's Paw— W. W.Jacobs 2720 The Monster—Stephen Crane 2723 Moon and Madness—Isaac Bashevis Singer 2727 Moon Deluxe—Frederick Barthebne 2730 The Moons of Jupiter—Alice Munro 2733 The Moor—RussellBanks 2736 Mosby's Memoirs—Saul Bellow 2739 The Most Dangerous Game—Richard Connell 2742 The Mote in the Middle Distance, H*nryJ*m*s—MaxBeerbohm 2745 A Mother's Tale—James Agee 2747 The Moths—Helena Maria Viramontes 2750 The Mountain Tavern—LiamO'Flaherty 2753 The Moving—James Still 2756 Moving Pictures—Charles Johnson 2759 Mr. and Mrs. Baby—MarkStrand 2763 Mrs. Fortescue—Doris Lessing 2766 Mrs. Plum—EzekielMphahlele 2769 Mrs. Ripley's Trip—Hamlin Garland 2772 A Municipal Report—O. Henry 2775 Murderers—Leonard Michaels 2779 The Murders in the Rue Morgue—Edgar Allan Poe 2782 Murke's Collected Silences—HeinrichBoll 2785 MyFirstGoose—IsaacBabel 2788 My Kinsman, Major Molineux—Nathaniel Hawthorne 2792 MyManBovanne—Toni Cade Bambara 2796 My Mother—Jamaica Kincaid 2800 My Oedipus Complex—Frara/c O'Connor 2803 My Old Man—Ernest Hemingway 2806 My Side of the Matter— Truman Capote. 2809 MyWarszawa—Joyce Carol Oates 2813 Mysterious Kor—Elizabeth Bowen 2817

lxxv MASTERPLOTS II page Nairobi—Joyce Carol Oates 2820 A Nasty Story—Fyodor Dostoevski 2824 National Honeymoon—PaulHorgan 2828 ANativeofWinby—Sarah Orne Jew ett 2831 Nebraska—RonHansen 2834 The Necklace—Guy de Maupassant 2837 Neighbor Rosicky—WillaCather 2841 Neighbors—Raymond Carver 2844 Neighbors—Diane Oliver 2847 Nevada Gas—Raymond Chandler 2850 The New Apartment—HeinzHuber 2854 A New England Nun—Mary E. Wilkins Freeman 2858 New Islands—Maria Luisa Bombal 2861 New Year for Fong Wing—Monfoon Leong 2865 A New Year's Eve Adventure—E. T. A. Hoffmann 2868 Night-Sea Journey—JohnBarth 2871 Night Swimming—Pete Fromm 2874 Night Women—Edwidge Danticat 2877 Nightfall—IsaacAsimov 2880 No One's a Mystery—Elizabeth Tallent 2883 No Place for You, My Love—EudoraWelty 2886 No Trace—DavidMadden 2889 Nomad and Viper—AmosOz 2892 Noon Wine—Katherine Anne Porter 2896 North Light—MarkHelprin 2900 The Northern Lights—JoyHarjo 2903 The Norwegian Rat—Naguib Mahfouz 2906 The Nose—NikolaiGogol 2909 NotaGoodGirl—PerriKlass 2913 Now That April's Here—Morley Callaghan 2916 The Nun—Pedro Antonio de Alarcon 2919 The Nun's Mother—MaryLavin 2922

An Occasion of Sin—John Montague 2925 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge—Ambrose Bierce 2928 Odour of Chrysanthemums—D.H.Lawrence 2932 Of This Time, of That Place—Lionel Trilling 2935 An Official Position—W. Somerset Maugham 2938 Oh, the Wonder!—Jeremy Larner 2941 "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad"—M./?. James 2945 The Old Bird—J.F. Powers 2948 The Old Forest—PeterTaylor 2951

lxxvi TABLE OF CONTENTS page OldHght—Barry Targan 2954 The Old Man Slave and the Mastiff—Patrick Chamoiseau 2957 Old Mortality—Katherine Anne Porter 2960 OldRed—Caroline Gordon 2964 Old Vemish—Barry Targan 2968 OldWest—Richard Bausch 2972 Old Woman Magoun—Mary E. Wilkins Freeman 2975 Old-World Landowners—Nikolai Gogol 2979 On Account of a Hat—Sholom Aleichem 2983 On Discovery—Maxine Hong Kingston 2987 On Hope—Spencer Hoist 2990 On the Golden Porch—TatyanaTolstaya 2993 OntheRoad—Langston Hughes 2996 On the Shore of Chad Creek—Jack Matthews 2999 One Holy Night—Sandra Cisneros 3002 The£l,000,000Bank-Note—Mark Twain 3005 OneofaKind—JulianBarnes 3008 One of Cleopatra's Nights—Theophile Gautier 3011 One of the Missing—Ambrose Bierce 3014 One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts—Shirley Jackson 3017 The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas—Ursula K. Le Guin 3020 The Only Man on Liberty Street— William Melvin Kelley 3023 The Open Boat—Stephen Crane 3026 Open House—Nadine Gordimer 3029 The Open Window—Saki 3032

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