PART ONE INTRODUCTION TO SHORT FICTION
PART TWO ELEMENTS OF FICTION
Ⅰ.Setting
Ⅱ.Conflict
Ⅲ.Character
Ⅳ.Theme
PART THREE ART OF FICTION
Ⅰ.Point of View
The First Person
The Second Person
The Third Person
Ⅱ.Style
Ⅲ.Plot
Ⅳ.Figurative Devices
Symbolism
Irony
PART FOUR BEST SHORT STORIES
Ⅰ.Washington Irving (1783-1859)
Rip Van Winkle
Ⅱ.Nathaniel Hawthorn (1804-1864)
The Young Goodman Brown
Ⅲ.Mark Twain (1835-1910)
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Ⅳ.Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)
The Diamond Necklace
Ⅴ.Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
The Lady With the Dog
Ⅵ.O.Henry (1867-1910)
The Gift of the Magi
Ⅶ.Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)
Death in the Woods
Ⅶ.James Joyee (1882-1941)
Araby
Ⅸ.Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
Kew Gardens
Ⅹ D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
The Rocking Horse Winner
Ⅺ.William Faulkner (1897-1962)
A Rose for Emily
Ⅻ.Earnest Hemingway (1899-1961)
A Clean, Well-lighted Place
ⅩⅢ.John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
The Chrysanthemums
ⅩⅣ.Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991)
Gimpel the Fool
ⅩⅤ.John Cheerer (1912-1982)
The Swimmer
ⅩⅥ.Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
Revelation
ⅩⅦ.John Updike (1932- )
A&P
References