The Short Story
fiction in transition
by John Chesley Taylor, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, Антон Павлович Чехов, James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Philip Roth, Jorge Luis Borges
Nathaniel Hawthorne / The artist of the beautiful Edgar Allan Poe / [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) Herman Melville / [Bartleby the scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W): A tale of Wall Street Fyodor Dostoevsky / The crocodile Anton Chekhov / On official business Guy De Maupassant / Minuet Giovanni Verga / The she-wolf Henry James / The middle years Joseph Conrad / Il Conde J.F. Powers / Lions, harts, leaping does Stephen Crane / The blue hotel Maxim Gorky / Twenty-six men and a girl James Joyce / [Counterparts](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20570464W) Italo Svevo / Generous wine Dennis Lynds / A blue blonde in the sky over Pennsylvania John Galsworthy / The Japanese quince Franz Kafka / In the penal colony F. Scott Fitzgerald / The diamond as big as the Ritz Luigi Pirandello / In the abyss Katherine Mansfield / The fly Sherwood Anderson / Death in the woods William Faulkner / [A rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W) Ernest Hemingway / The short happy life of Francis Macomber Frank Rooney / Cyclists' raid Flannery O'Connor / A good man is hard to find James Thurber / The unicorn in the garden Shirley Jackson / The witch Carson McCullers / Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland Philip Roth / The conversion of the Jews Jorge Luis Borges / Death and the compass Julio Cortazar / Bestiary Paul Bowles / The scorpion Ilse Aichinger / The bound man Ted Hughes / Snow Robert Creeley / The boat Douglas Woolf / The flyman Michael Rumaker / The pipe Alain ARobbe-Grillet / The secret room