Choose Your Own Reading Adventure: Short Stories
1. Choose one of the short stories below (you may also find your own, but show Mr. Maholland first for approval)
2. If the content bothers you for any reason, choose a different story.
3. Complete the Online Reading Literature Analysis Form for the text you selected.
Short Story Links
1. Choose one of the short stories below (you may also find your own, but show Mr. Maholland first for approval)
2. If the content bothers you for any reason, choose a different story.
3. Complete the Online Reading Literature Analysis Form for the text you selected.
Short Story Links
- Katherine Mansfield's Short Story "The Fly"
- Vladimer Nabokov's Short Story "Symbols and Signs"
- Ernest Hemingway's Short Story "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"
- Flannery O'Connor's Short Story "A Good Man is Hard to Find"
- Franz Kafka's Short Story "In the Penal Colony"
- Franz Kafka's Short Story "A Hunger Artist"
- William Carlos Williams' Short Story "The Use of Force"
- D.H. Lawrence's Short Story "The Rocking-horse Winner"
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Short Story "The Yellow Wallpaper"
- Leo Tolstoy's Short Story "Three Questions"
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Short Story "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"
- Anton Chekhov's Short Story "The Looking Glass"
- Jorges Luis Borges' Short Story "The South"
- Oscar Wilde's Short Story "The Nightingale and the Rose"
- Rudyard Kipling's Short Story "Rikki-tikki-tavi"
- W.W. Jacobs' Short Story "The Monkey's Paw"
- Roald Dahl's Short Story "Man from the South"
- Guy de Maupassant's Short Story "The Piece of String"
- Leo Tolstoy's Short Story "The Long Exile"
- Anton Chekhov's Short Story "A Problem"
- Luigi Pirandello's Short Story "War"
- Isak Dinesen's Short Story "The Ring"
- Julio Cortazar's Short Story "The Night Face Up"
- Gabriel Garcia Marqeuz's Short Story "Tuesday Siesta"
- Luisa Valenzuela's Short Story "The Censors"
- Abioseh Nicol's Short Story "Life is Sweet at Kumansenu"
- Chinua Achebe's Short Story "Dead Men's Path"
- Nadine Gordimer's Short Story "The Train from Rhodesia"
- Bessie Head's "The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses"
- Nabuib Mahfouz's Short Story "The Norwegian Rat"
- Yasunari Kawabata's Short Story "The Jay"
- R.K. Narayan's Short Story "An Astrologer's Day"
- Zhang Jie's Short Story "Love Must Not Be Forgotten"
- George Orwell's Short Story "Shooting an Elephant"
- Ray Bradbury's Short Story "A Sound of Thunder"
- Margaret Atwood's Short Story "Stone Mattress"
- James Joyce's Short Story "Eveline"
- Nicolai Gogol's Short Story "The Overcoat"
- 50 Best Short Stories of All Time