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Easier Stort Story Literature Units

The Brothers Grimm		The Adventures of Aladdin
O. Henry		After Twenty Years
Rudyard Kipling		How the Camel Got His Hump
		How The Leopard Got His Spots
Guy de Maupassant		The Vendetta

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High School Level Stort Story Literature Units

H.H. Munro (Saki)		The Mouse
		Sredni Vashtar
Louisa May Alcott		A Country Christmas
		Kitty's Class Day
		May Flowers
Thomas Bailey Aldrich		The Cruise of the Dolphin
Julia Alvarez		The Daughter of Invention
Hans Christian Andersen		The Little Mermaid
Sherwood Anderson		The Egg
		Sophistication
		The Strength of God
Lucius Apuleius		Cupid and Psyche
Stephen Vincent Benet		The Devil and Daniel Webster
		By the Waters of Babylon
Ambrose Bierce		Present at a Hanging
		A Horseman in the Sky
		Beyond the Wall
		The Boarded Window
		An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Paul Bowles		In the Red Room
Ray Bradbury		All Summer in a Day
		There Will Come Soft Rains
		The Utterly Perfect Murder
		The Pedestrian
Truman Capote		A Christmas Memory
Raymond Carver		Everything Stuck to Him
Willa Cather		Paul's Case
		A Wagner Matinee
		The Sculptor's Funeral
		A Death in the Desert
Anton Chekhov		The Bet
		The Schoolmistress
		The Shoemaker and the Devil
		The Lady with the Little Dog
		A Story Without a Title
		Grisha
		A Father
		Difficult People
		Old Age
		Sorrow
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov		A Day in the Country
		A Slander
Charles W. Chesnutt		The Sheriff's Children
Kate Chopin		A Pair of Silk Stockings
		The Storm
		The Locket
		A Reflection
		The Kiss
		A Respectable Woman
		Desiree's Baby
		The Story of an Hour
Agatha Christie		Wasps' Nest
Richard Connell		The Most Dangerous Game
Robert Cormier		The Mustache
Stephen Crane		A Mystery of Heroism
		A Desertion
		A Dark Brown Dog
Roald Dahl		Lamb to the Slaughter
		The Landlady
		Beware of the Dog
		Man From the South
Charles Dickens		The Baron of Grogzwig
		The Poor Relation's Story
Arthur Conan Doyle		His Last Bow
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle		A Case of Identity
		The Adventure of the Speckled Band
		The Red-Headed League
Ralph Ellison		Battle Royal
William Faulkner		Barn Burning
		Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
		A Rose For Emily
Edna Ferber		Long Distance
		The Frog and the Puddle
Jack Finney		Of Missing Persons
F. Scott Fitzgerald		Bernice Bobs Her Hair
		Winter Dreams
Ambrose Flack		The Strangers That Came to Town
E. M. Forster		The Story of the Siren
		Mr. Andrews
		The Eternal Moment
James Anthony Froude		The Farmer and the Fox
Mona Gardner		The Dinner Party
Charlotte Perkins Gilman		The Yellow Wallpaper
Edward Everett Hale		The Man without a Country
Bret Harte		The Luck of Roaring Camp
		The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Nathaniel Hawthorne		Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
		Young Goodman Brown
		The Birthmark
		Rappaccini's Daughter
		The Wives of the Dead
		The Ambitious Guest
		David Swan
		Mrs. Bullfrog
		The Minister's Black Veil
Ernest Hemingway		Soldier's Home
		The Killers
		In Another Country
		The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
		The Old Man at the Bridge
O. Henry		The Ransom of Red Chief
		The Furnished Room
		The Green Door
		The Cop and the Anthem
		Last Leaf
		The Roads We Take
		The Coming-Out of Maggie
		Buried Treasure
		Memoirs of a Yellow Dog
		Springtime a la Carte
		Between Rounds
		The Princess and the Puma
		A Chaparral Prince
		The Hiding of Black Bill
		Hearts and Crosses
		A Blackjack Bargainer
		Transients in Arcadia
		The Skylight Room
		The Purple Dress
		Mammon and the Archer
		Girl
		The Cactus
		Schools and Schools
		The Whirligig Of Life
		Best-Seller
		The Dog and the Playlet
		The Gift of the Magi
Patrick Henry		Speech in the Virginia Convention
Edward D. Hoch		The Last Unicorns
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffman		The Cremona Violin
Langston Hughes		Thank You, M'am
Evan Hunter		The Last Spin
James Hurst		The Scarlet Ibis
Washington Irving		The Devil and Tom Walker
		Rip Van Winkle
Shirley Jackson		After You My Dear Alphonse
		The Lottery
W.W. Jacobs		Odd Man Out
		Bill's Lapse
		Admiral Peters
		Friends in Need
		Good Intentions
		Watch-Dogs
		Fairy Gold
		The Guardian Angel
		The Castaway
		For Better or Worse
		Double Dealing
		Her Uncle
		Captain Rogers
		Alf's Dream
		The Dreamer
		The Monkey's Paw
Henry James		The Real Thing
		Turn of the Screw
		The Middle Years
Thomas Jefferson		Declaration of Independence
Sarah Orne Jewett		A White Heron
		Decoration Day
James Joyce		Clay
		Counterparts
		The Dead
		After the Race
		An Encounter
		Araby
		Eveline
		The Boarding House
		Two Gallants
		A Little Cloud
Rudyard Kipling		Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
		The Man Who Would Be King
		The Man Who Was
Ring Lardner		Haircut
D.H. Lawrence		The Rocking Horse Winner
Doris Lessing		Through The Tunnel
Abraham Lincoln		Gettysburg Address
Jack London		In a Far Country
		The God of His Fathers
		Aloha Oe
		The Sickness of Lone Chief
		When Alice Told Her Soul
		Brown Wolf
		To Build A Fire
		A Wicked Woman
Katherine Mansfield		The Stranger
		The Garden Party
		Miss Brill
		The Fly
		Bliss
		The Man Without A Temperament
Somerset Maugham		The Verger
Guy de Maupassant		A Ghost
		The Hand
		Friend Patience
		The Hairpin
		Two Friends
		The Donkey
		The Dowry
		The Wolf
		The Adopted Son
		After
		A Father's Confession
		The Log
		Farewell
		At Sea
		The Terror
		A Coward
		A Dead Woman's Secret
		Bellflower
		The Necklace
David McLean		Marine Corps Issue
Herman Melville		Bartleby, The Scrivener
Frank O'Connnor		The Drunkard
Flannery O'Connor		The Life You Save May Be Your Own
		A Good Man Is Hard To Find
		Everything that Rises Must Converge
Frank O'Connor		First Confession
		My Oedipus Complex
Liam O'Flaherty		The Sniper
James O'Keefe		Death Makes a Comeback
Joyce Carol Oates		Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
George Orwell		Shooting an Elephant
Grace Paley		Anxiety
Edgar Allan Poe		The Fall of the House of Usher
		The Oval Portrait
		The Premature Burial
		The Man of the Crowd
		Hop-Frog or the Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs
		The Imp of the Perverse
		The Black Cat
		The Pit and the Pendulum
		The Masque of the Red Death
		The Tell-Tale Heart
		The Cask of Amontillado
Katherine Anne Porter		The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Horacio Quiroga		The Feather Pillow
Majorie K. Rawlings		A Mother in Mannville
A.M. Rosenthal		There Is No News from Auschwitz
Saki		The Interlopers
		The Storyteller
		Fate
		Dusk
		The Byzantine Omelette
		The Background
		A Touch of Realism
		The Blind Spot
		The Bag
		A Defensive Diamond
		Shock Tactics
		Down Pens
		The Open Window
Irwin Shaw		The Girls in their Summer Dresses
Robert Louis Stevenson		Markheim
Frank Stockton		The Griffin and the Minor Canon
Frank R. Stockton		The Lady or the Tiger?
Harriet Beecher Stowe		The Ghost in the Mill
Jesse Stuart		Split Cherry Tree
Amy Tan		Rules of the Game
Dylan Thomas		A Child's Christmas in Wales
James Thurber		The Princess and the Tin Box
		The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Leo Tolstoy		How Much Land Does a Man Need?
		God Sees the Truth, But Waits
		Ivan the Fool
		What Men Live By, and other tales
Mark Twain		Luck
		A Telephonic Conversation
		Was it Heaven? Or Hell?
		The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
		My First Lie and How I Got Out of It
Kurt Vonnegut		Harrison Bergeron
Alice Walker		Everyday Use
H.G. Wells		The Star
		The Time Machine
Eudora Welty		A Worn Path
Edith Wharton		Afterward
		Souls Belated
		Roman Fever
E.B. White		Once More to the Lake
		The Door
Oscar Wilde		The Selfish Giant
		The Young King
		The Sphinx Without a Secret
		The Devoted Friend
		The Remarkable Rocket
		The Happy Prince
Thomas Wolfe		The Far and the Near
		The Lost Boy
Virginia Woolf		A Haunted House
		Kew Gardens
		The Mark on the Wall
		The Duchess and the Jeweller
		A Society

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