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 \nby Joyce Carol Oates ……………………………………257  \nThe Yellow Wallpaper  \nby Charlotte Perkins Gilman.. ……………277  \nYoung Goodman Brown  \nby Nathaniel Hawthorne . …………………………294  \nGlossaryof Literary Terms …………313  \nCumulative Author/T1tle Index .325  \nNationality/Ethndcity Index..327  \nSubject/Theme Index……………………………329  \nSitting on top of my desk is a Pueblo storytellingdoll.Her legs stick straight out before her andaround her neck and flowing down into her lap arewide-eyed children.Her mouth is open as thoughshe were telling the Zuni tale of the young husbandwho followed his wife to the Land of the Dead,astory strangely like the Greek myth of Opheus andEuridice,as both teach the dangers of youthfulimpatience.  \nAlthough the Pueblo doll was created in NewMexico,she symbolizes a universal human activity.The pharaohs listened intently to tales of the god-dess Isis,who traveled to foreign lands to rescue thedismembered body of her husband Osiris.Biblicalnarratives thrill the reader with stories like that ofmortal combat between David and the giant Goliath.Greek and Roman myths immortalize the strugglesof the wandering warriors Odysseus and Aeneas.Inthe Middle Ages,kings,queens and courtiers satspellbound in drafty halls as troubadours sang oftragic lovers and pious pilgrims.  \nAround the world and down through the ages,myths,folktales,and legends have spoken to usabout the human condition and our place in theworld of nature and of spirit.Despite its ancientbeginnings,however,there is no rigid criteria towhich a story must adhere.It is one of the mostprotean literary forms.Though many scholars creditthe nineteenth-century Romantic writers Edgar  \nAn Adventure in Reading  \nAllan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne with creatingthe modern short story,the form refuses to be frozenby a list of essential characteristics.Perhaps this isone of the reasons William Faulkner called it the\"most demanding form after poetry.\"Jack Londonfelt it should be \"concrete,to the point,with snapand go and life,crisp and crackling and interest-ing.”Eudora Welty wrote that each story shouldreveal something new yet also contain something\"as old as time.\"  \nBelow are some of the qualities you may ob-serve as you explore the works discussed in ShortStoriesfor Students.These characteristics also dem-onstrate some of the ways the short story differsfrom the novel;  \n1.Because time is compressed or accelerated,unityin plot,charact","cbCaifzGuE7zRcfy","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifzGuE7zRcfy","pdf",10042707,347,"English","# Guest Preface\n## \"An Adventure in Reading\" by Nancy Rosenberger\n# Introduction\n## Literary Chronology\n# Acknowledgments\n# Selected Works\n## Araby by James Joyce\n## The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain\n## Children of the Sea by Edwidge Danticat\n## The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving\n## The Eatonville Anthology by Zora Neale Hurston\n## The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World by Gabriel Garcia Marquez\n## I Stand Here Ironing by Tillie Olsen\n## The Jilting of Granny Weatherall by Katherine Anne Porter\n## King of the Bingo Game by Ralph Ellison\n## The Lottery by Shirley Jackson\n## The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell\n## The Open Window by Saki\n## The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber\n## The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad\n## The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber by Ernest Hemingway\n## There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury\n## Through the Tunnel by Doris Lessing\n## Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? 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