The Short Story

• Joyce, Araby--on line
  • Araby: another etext
  • Questions for Araby
  • Sample Critical Essays
• Melville, "Bartleby, the Scrivener"
• "Oberfest"--a very, very short story
• Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brown"
• Irwin Shaw "The Girls in their Summer Dresses"
• Saki, "The Open Window"
• Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery"
  • Information on Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery"
• John Kenny Crane, "The Day the Fifties Became the Sixties"
• "Arturo's Flight"-- a short story from Island Like You by Judith Cofer
• On the Sidewalk Bleeding"(9/21/00) by Evan Hunter (works well as an "into" for The Outsiders and Romeo and Juliet)
• Classic short stories--etexts available on the web
• Links to many other classic short stories
• Large on-line library of short stories from the UK

Related Articles or Essays

• James Joyce's Definition of Epiphany
• Washington Irving's Classic definition of a Short Story
• E. T. A. Hoffmann: Background and Context
• Excerpts from articles about the Uncanny and the Fantastic
• Using the Short Story in the YA classroom--from an article in ALAN

  Kafka's Metamorphosis

  • Nabokov's Lecture on Kafka's "Metamorphosis"
  • first page Kafka's story for Nabokov's teaching
  • the Irony of Laugher: an essay
  • Gregor Samsa as Functional Deviant A Hypothetical Interpretation by Friedrich Nietzsche by Russell McNeil
• Using the Short Story in the English Classroom