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Introduction
Anon.	The Book of Jonah
Miguel de Cervantes	The Deceitful Marriage
The Brothers Grimm	The Children of Hameln
Edgar Allan Poe	The Tell-Tale Heart
Nikolai Gogol	The Nose
Charles Dickens	The Signal-Man
Gustave Flaubert	A Simple Heart
Kate Chopin	Desiree’s Baby
Guy de Maupassant	The Horla
Joseph Conrad	The Lagoon
George Gissing	Fleet-Footed Hester
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	A Scandal in Bohemia
Knut Hamsun	A Lecture Tour
J.M. Barrie	Cree Queery and Mysy Drolly
Anton Chekhov	The Lady with the Dog
O. Henry	The Cop and the Anthem
Edith Wharton	The Other Two
M.R. James	“Oh Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad”
Rudyard Kipling	Mary Postgate
Henry Lawson	The Loaded Dog
Ivan Bunin	A Cold Autumn
Saki	Sredni Vashtar
Willa Cather	Consequences
G.K. Chesterton	The Three Horsemen
W. Somerset Maugham	Mr Know-all
Robert Walser	A Little Ramble
P.G. Wodehouse	Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend
Stefan Zweig	Forgotten Dreams
Virginia Woolf	Solid Objects
James Joyce	Eveline
Franz Kafka	A Hunger Artist
Isak Dinesen	The Ring
D.H. Lawrence	The Rocking-Horse Winner
Katherine Mansfield	A Married Man’s Story
Richmal Crompton	The Fall of the Idol
Isaac Babel	My First Fee
Aesop	The Hare and the Tortoise
F. Scott Fitzgerald	Babylon Revisited
Jorge Luis Borges	Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
Elizabeth Bowen	Sunday Afternoon
Sean O’Faolain	How to Write a Short Story
V.S. Pritchett	A Family Man
Isaac Bashevis Singer	Gimpel the Fool
Frank O’Connor	Guests of the Nation
Hans Christian Andersen	The Red Shoes
William Maxwell	Love
Eudora Welty	Petrified Man
John Cheever	The Swimmer
Elizabeth Taylor	The Blush
Delmore Schwartz	In Dreams Begin Responsibilities
Angus Wilson	Raspberry Jam
Bernard Malamud	The Last Mohican
Roald Dahl	Parson’s Pleasure
Penelope Fitzgerald	The Red-Haired Girl
Shirley Jackson	The Lottery
Muriel Spark	The Executor
Clarice Lispector	The Smallest Woman in the World
Mavis Gallant	The Wedding Ring
Flannery O’Connor	A Good Man is Hard to Find
Stephen Crane	The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
Frank Tuohy	Live Bait
Cynthia Ozick	The Pagan Rabbi
William Trevor	Broken Homes
J.G. Ballard	Dream Cargoes
Alice Munro	The Children Stay
Julia O’Faolain	Under the Rose
John McGahern	The Wine Breath
Edith Pearlman	ToyFolk
Anita Desai	Private Tuition by Mr Bose
Thomas Pynchon	Entropy
Raymond Carver	Errand
Georgina Hammick	The Dying Room
Angela Carter	Lizzie’s Tiger
Bernard MacLaverty	At the Beach
Peter Carey	Report on the Shadow Industry
Gita Mehta	The Teacher’s Story
Shena Mackay	Radio Gannet
Julian Barnes	Marriage Lines
Ian McEwan	Solid Geometry
Denis Johnson	Emergency
Martin Amis	Let Me Count the Times
Nguyen Huy Thiep	Cun
Kate Atkinson	Unseen Translation
Hanif Kureishi	D’accord, Baby
Tim Parks	The Tangling Point
John Burnside	The Cold Outside
Colm Toíbín	Summer of ’38
Lorrie Moore	Two Boys
Tim Winton	Boner McPharlin’s Moll
George Saunders	The Wavemaker Falters
A.M. Homes	A Real Doll
Joanne Harris	The Toymaker and his Wife
Keith Ridgway	Marching Songs
Nicola Barker	Mixed Breeding
James Bradley	Beauty’s Sister
Siddhartha Deb	Nothing Visible
Anthony Doerr	The Deep
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	The Thing Around Your Neck
Extended Copyright
J.G. Ballard	The Index
	About this Book
	About the Editor
	An Invitation from the Publisher
	Copyright