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The Seagull Reader

Contents for Stories, Second Edition

Selections in bold are new to the Second Edition.

  • Chinua Achebe, Uncle Ben’s Choice
  • Sherman Alexie, What You Pawn I Will Redeem
  • James Baldwin, Sonny’s Blues
  • Hannah Bottomy, Currents
  • T. Coraghessan Boyle, Tooth and Claw
  • Raymond Carver, Cathedral
  • John Cheever, The Swimmer
  • Anton Chekhov, In Exile
  • Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
  • Stephen Crane, The Open Boat
  • Louise Erdrich, I Am a Mad Dog Biting Myself for Sympathy
  • William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
  • Gabriel García Márquez, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown
  • Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants
  • O. Henry, The Furnished Room
  • James Joyce, Araby
  • Franz Kafka, A Hunger Artist
  • Jamaica Kincaid, Girl
  • D. H. Lawrence, The Horse Dealer’s Daughter
  • Beth Lordan, Digging
  • Bobby Ann Mason, Shiloh
  • James Alan McPherson, A Loaf of Bread
  • Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
  • Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
  • Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
  • Flannery O’Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find
  • Frank O’Connor, Guests of the Nation
  • Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing
  • Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
  • Katherine Anne Porter, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
  • Leslie Marmon Silko, Yellow Woman
  • John Steinbeck, The Chrysanthemums
  • Paul Theroux, The Memory Priest of the Creech People
  • John Updike, A&P
  • Alice Walker, Everyday Use
  • Eudora Welty, A Worn Path
  • Edith Wharton, Roman Fever
  • Virginia Woolf, The New Dress