
Reading modern fiction -- Fourth Edition
Contains: A tooth for Paul Revere / Stephen Vincent Benét -- The man who missed the bus / Stella Benson -- The happy autumn fields / Elizabeth Bowen -- They weren't going to die / Kay Boyle -- The hands of Mr. Ottermole / Thomas Burke -- Paul's case / Willa Cather -- The new villa / Anton Chekhov -- Hook / Walter Van Tilburg Clark -- The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad -- The blue hotel / Stephen Crane -- Dry September / William Faulkner -- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerlad -- The captive / Caroline Gordon -- The second death / Graham Greene -- The snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway -- The bench of desolation / Henry James -- [Clay](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18179205W) / James Joyce -- An old page / Franz Kafka -- Mario and the magician / Thomas Mann -- Bliss / Katherine Mansfield -- The outstation / William Somerset Maugham -- A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- Mariá Concepción / Katherine Anne Porter -- The valiant woman / James F. Powers -- The passion of Lance Corporal Hawkins / Irwin Shaw -- Fight number twenty-five / Jesse Stuart -- The fancy woman / Peter Taylor -- The singers / Ivan Turgenev -- First love / Eudora Welty -- The second tree from the corner / E.B. White.
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