Modern Short Stories
The open window / Saki (H H Munro) Under the Banyan tree / R K Narayan A dill pickle / Katherine Mansfield First confession / Frank O'Connor The first seven years / Bernard Malamud The nightengale and the rose / Oscar Wilde [Lamb to the Slaughter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504418W) / Roald Dahl Ace in the hole / John Updike
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