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*🟢 ENGLISH 11: SHORT STORIES

Short Story Unit English 11

Short Stories LHS Collection

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A & P by John Updike

Battle Royal by Ralph Ellison

The Bear by William Faulkner

The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James

Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Woodstock by Sherman Alexie​

The Beginning of Something by Sue Ellen Bridgers

The Best Girlfriend You Never Had by Pam Houston

Big Black Good Man by Richard Wright

The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Black Boy by Kay Boyle

Black is My Favorite Color by Bernard Malamud

Blackberry Water by Robert Penn Warren

Blood-Burning Moon by Jean Toomer

Bloodchild by Octavia Butler

The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

The Blue Hotel by Stephen Crane

The Blues I'm Playing by Langston Hughes

The Boarded Window by Ambrose Bierce

Bright and Morning Star by Richard Wright

Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx

Broken Chain by Gary Soto 

The following short stories are pdfs that can ONLY be opened with your Ledyard.net Gmail accounts.

Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe

The Far and Near by Thomas Wolfe

The Fat Girl by Andre Dubus

Fever by John Edgar Wideman

The First Seven Years by Bernard Malamud

Fleur by Louise Erdrich

Flight by John Steinbeck

Flowering Judas by Katherine Anne Porter

Four Summers by Joyce Carol Oates

The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry

The Gilded Six-Bits by Zora Neale Hurston

The Good Deed by Pearl S. Buck

A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor

Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth

The Goophered Grapevine by Charles Waddell Chesnut

The Grave by Katherine Anne Porter

Greasy Lake by T.C. Boyle 

Greyhound People by Alice Adams

Haircut by Ring Lardner

The Half-Skinned Steer by Annie Proulx

Hands by Sherwood Anderson

He by Katherine Ann Porter

Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry by Elizabeth McCracken

Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway

Holiday by Katherine Anne Porter

How I Contemplated the World From the Detroit House of Corrections and Began My Life Over Again by Joyce Carol Oat

How to Tell a True War Story by Tim O'Brien

Hunters in the Snow by Tobias Wolff

The following short stories are pdfs that can ONLY be opened with your Ledyard.net Gmail accounts.

The Lady, or the Tiger by Frank Stockton

Last Lovely City by Alice Adams

Last Night by James Salter

The Law of Life by Jack London

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara

Life in the Iron Mills by Rebecca Harding Davis

The Life You Save May Be Your Own by Flannery O'Connor

Lob's Girl by Joan Aiken    

Long Distance by Jane Smiley

The Long Distance Runner by Grace Paley

Lost in the Funhouse by John Barth

Lullaby by Leslie Marmon Silko

The Machine that Won the War by Isaac Asimov

The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud

Mammon and the Archer by O. Henry

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain

The Man to Send Rain Clouds by Leslie Silko

The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright

The Man Who Was Almost a Man by Richard Wright

The Management of Grief by Bharati Mukherjee

Marry the One Who Gets There First by Heidi Julavits

The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

The Middleman by Bharati Mukherjee

The Minister's Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Moon Lake by Eudora Welty

The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe

My Kinsman, Major Molineux by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain

The following short stories are pdfs that can ONLY be opened with your Ledyard.net Gmail accounts.

Saint Helene by Alice Hoffman

Say Yes by Tobias Wolff

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber

The Shell Collector by Anthony Doerr

The Sheriff's Children by Charles Waddell Chesnutt

Shiloh by Bobbi Ann Mason

Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber by Ernest Hemingway

Signs and Symbols by Vladimir Nabokov

Silent Snow, Secret Snow by Conrad Aiken

A Silver Dish by Saul Bellow

Sinking House by T. Coraghessan Boyle

Sky is Gray by Ernest Gaines

Slave on the Block by Langston Hughes 

The Slump by John Updike

A Small, Good Thing by Raymond Carver

The Smoothest Way is Full of Stones by Julie Orringer

The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway

The Soldier's Home by Ernest Hemingway

Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

A Spinster's Tale by Peter Taylor

Stones in My Passway, Hellhound on My Trail by T. Coraghessan Boyle

The Storm by Kate Chopin

Sweat by Zora Neale Hurtson

The Swimmer by John Cheever

 

The following short stories are pdfs that can ONLY be opened with your Ledyard.net Gmail accounts.

Victory Over Japan by Ellen Gilchrist

Waldo by Robert A. Heinlein

The Way We Live Now by Susan Sontag

What We Cannot Speak About We Must Pass Over in Silence by John Edgar Wideman

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates

Where I Am Calling From by Raymond Carver

A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett

The Wives of the Dead by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Women Hollering Creek by Sandra Cisneros

Worn Path by Eudora Welty

Wunderkind by Carson McCullers

Where I'm Calling From by Raymond Carver

Why I Live at the P.O. by Eudora Welty

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Yellow Woman by Leslie Marmon Silko

You're Ugly Too by Lorrie Moore