Short Stories: Dates and additional material by authors

Geddes, Gary (Ed.), The Art of Short Fiction: Brief Edition (Addison-Wesley, 1999)

Author

Title

Year

Page

On Writing

Poe, Edgar Allan

The Cask of Amontillado

1846

271

On the Aim and Technique, 379

Bierce, Ambrose

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

1891

24

 

Chopin, Kate

The Story of an Hour

1894

73

 

Chekhov, Anton

The Lady with the Pet Dog

1899

59

The Matter of Technique, 351

Conrad, Joseph

Heart of Darkness

1899

77

The Creative Process, 354

Joyce, James

Clay

1914

178

 

Mansfield, Katherine

A Dill Pickle

1920

225

 

Lawrence, D. H.

The Horse Dealer’s Daughter

1922

204

 

Hemingway, Ernest

Hills Like White Elephants

1927

168

 

Woolf, Virginia

‘Slater’s Pins Have No Points’

1928

324

 

Woolf, Virginia

The Fascination of the Pool

1929

330

Women and Fiction, 379

Faulkner, Williams

A Rose for Emily

1930

140

 

Porter, Katherine Anne

Flowering Judas

1930

278

 

Welty, Eudora

A Worn Path

1941

316

 

Akutagawa, Ryünosuke

In a Grove

1952

6

 

O’Connor, Flannery

Good Country People

1955

246

Writing Short Stories, 365

Olsen, Tillie

I Stand Here Ironing

1956

262

From Silences, 373

Borowski, Tadeusz

This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

1959

46

 

Walker, Alice

The Child Who Favored Daughter

1967

308

 

Márquez, Gabriel García

One of These Days

1968

154

 

Munro, Alice

The Shining Houses

1968

232

What is Real? 362

Nabokov, Vladimir

Signs and Symbols

1969

240

 

Laurence, Margaret

The Loons

1970

195

 

Borges, Jorge Luis

The Book of Sand

1971

41

 

Achebe, Chinua

The Sacrificial Egg

1972

1

 

Blaise, Clarke

A Class of New Canadians

1973

32

 

Urbino, José Leandro

Our Father Who Art in Heaven / Portrait of a Lady

1978

295

 

Valgardson, W. D.

Celebration

1978

297

 

Gallant, Mavis

Rue de Lille

1979

149

What Is Style? 356

Phillips, Jayne Anne

The Stripper

1979

269

 

Atwood, Margaret

Hairball

1982

13

An End to Audience, 350

MacLeod, Alistair

As Birds Bring Forth the Sun

1986

218

‘At the Moment,’ 361

Thomas, Audrey

Mothering Sunday

1986

289

 

Hempel, Amy

The Harvest

1990

173

 

Gordimer, Nadine

The Ultimate Safari

1991

158

The Flash of Fireflies, 359

King, Thomas

Borders

1991

185

 



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Document prepared September 4th 2002