Chinua Achebe (Nigeria) / Girls at war -- Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana) / Two sisters -- Akutagawa Ryunosuke (Japan) / Within a grove -- Woody Allen (United States) / The kugelmass episode -- Isabel Allenda (Chile) / And of clay are we created. Hanan Al-Shaykh (Lebanon/England) / The Unseeing eye -- Rudolfo A. Anaya (United States) / B. Traven is alive and well in Cuernavaca -- Sherwood Anderson (United States) / Hands -- Margaret Atwood (Canada) / Dancing girls -- Isaac Babel (Russia) / My first goose -- Barbara Neely (United States) / Spilled salt -- Ann Beattie (United States) / The burning house -- Heinrich Boll (Germany) / The laugher -- Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina) / The South -- Dino Buzzati (Italy) / The falling girl. Iralo Calvino (Italy) / The Spiral -- Albert Camus (Algeria/France) / The guest -- Angela Carter (England) / The courtship of Mr. Lyon -- Raymond Carver (United States) / Where I'm calling from -- John Cheever (United States) / The swimmer -- Anton Chekhov (Russia) / The kiss -- Kate Chopin (United States) / The story of an hour -- Gabrielle-Sidonie Colette (France) / The seamstress -- Joseph Conrad (Poland/England) / Amy Foster -- Birago Diop (Senegal) / Sarzan. Jose Donoso (Chile) / Paseo -- Louise Erdrich (United States) / Love medicine -- William Faulkner (United States) / A rose for Emily -- Feng Jicai (China) / The street-sweeping show -- F. Scott Fitzgerald (United States) / Bernice bobs her hair -- Carlos Fuentes (Mexico) / The doll queen -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Columbia) / Balthazar's marvelous afternoon -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman (United States) / The yellow wallpaper -- Susan Glaspel (United States) / A jury of her peers -- Nikolai Gogol (Russia) / The overcoat. Nadine Gordimer (South Africa) / Country lovers -- Judy Grahn (United States) / Boys at the rodeo -- Nathaniel Hawthorne (United States) / The birthmark -- Ernest Hemingway (United States) / Hills like white elephants -- Langston Hughes (United States) / Thank you, M'am -- Zora Neale Hurston (United States) / The gilded six-bits -- Shirley Jackson (United States) / The lottery -- Svava Jakobsdottir (Iceland) / A story for children -- Henry James (United States/England) / Greville Fane -- Sarah Orne Jewett (United States) / A white heron -- Elizabeth Jolley (England/Australia) / Another holiday for the prince. James Joyce (Ireland) / Eveline -- Franzm Kafka (Czechoslovakia) / A report to an academy -- Ghassan Kanafani (Palestine) / A hand in the grave -- John Kasaipwalova (Papua New Guinea) / Betel Nut is bad magic for airplanes -- Khamsing Srinawk (Thailand) / The gold-legged frog -- Jamaica Kincaid (Antigua/United States) / My Mother -- Margaret Laurence (Canada) / A bird in the house -- Ursula K. LeGuin (United States) / Sur -- Doris Lessing (Rhodesia/England) / The Old Chief Mshlanga -- Catherine Lim (Singapore) / Or else, the lightning God. Arnost Lustig (Czechoslovakia/United States) / The lemon -- Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt) / Half a day -- Bernard Malamud (United States) / The jewbird -- Katherine Mansfield (New Zealand/England) / Her first ball -- Rene Marques (Puerto Rico) / Island of Manhattan -- Bobbie Ann Mason (United States) / Shiloh -- William Somerset Maugham (England) / The appointment in Samarra -- Guy de Maupassant (France) / The necklace -- Richard McCann (United States) / My mother's clothes: the school of beauty and shame -- John McCluskey (United States) / Lush life. Katherine Min (Korea/United States) / The one who goes farthest away -- Susan Minot (United States) / Lust -- Mishima Yukio (Japan) / Swaddling clothes -- Lorrie Moore (United States) / How to become a writer -- Toni Morrison (United States) / Recitatif -- Kermit Moyer (United States) / Tumbling -- Eskia Mphahlele (South Africa) / Mrs. Plum -- Slawomir Mrozek (Poland) / The Elephant -- Bharati Mukherjee (India/United States) / A Father -- Carmen Naranjo (Costa Rica) / And we sold the rain. R.K. Narayan (India) / A horse and two goats -- Ngugi wa Thiong'o (Kenya) / A meeting in the dark -- Joyce Carol Oates (United States) / Where are you going, where have you been? -- Oba Minako (Japan) / The pale fox -- Tim O'Brien (United States) The things they carried -- Flannery O'Connor (United States) / A good man is hard to find -- Oe Kenzaburo (Japan) / Aghwee the sky monster -- Ben Okri (Nigeria) / In the shadow of war -- Tillie Olsen (United States) / I stand here ironing -- Sembene Ousmane (Senegal) / Black girl. Amos Oz (Israel) / Nomad and Viper -- Octavio Paz (Mexico) / The blue bouquet -- Cristina Peri Rossi (Uruguay/Spain) / Mona Lisa -- Virgilio Pinera (Cuba) / Insomnia -- Edgar Allen Poe (United States) / The cask of Amontillado -- Katherine Anne Porter (United States) / Rope -- Rodrigo Rey Rosa (Guatemala) / The proof -- Salman Rushdie (India/England) / The prophet's hair -- Leslie Marmon Silko (United States) / Yellow woman -- Isaac Bashevis Singer (Poland/United States) / Gimpel the fool. Maria Teresa Solari (Peru) / Death and transfiguration of a teacher -- John Steinbeck (United States) / The chrysanthemums -- Graham Swift (England) / Learning to swim -- Veronique Tadjo (Ivory Coast) The betrayal -- Amy Tan (China/United States) / Half and half -- Haldun Taner (Turkey) / To all eternity -- Amos Tutuola (Nigeria) / The complete gentleman -- Mark Twain (United States) / Luck -- John Updike (United States) / A & P -- Luisa Valenzuela (Argentina) / Strange things happen here. Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru) / Sunday -- Yvonne Vera (Zimbabwe) / In Africa there is a kind of spider -- Alice Walker (United States) / Everyday use -- Eudora Welty (United States) / Why I live at the P.O. -- Edith Wharton (United States) / The Muse's tragedy -- Virginia Woolf (England) / Kew gardens -- Niaz Zaman (Bangladesh) / The daily woman.
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