Includes index

The Zebra Storyteller / Spencer Holst --
No One's a Mystery / Elizabeth Tallent --
The Jewelry / Guy de Maupassant --
Happy Endings / Margaret Atwood --
The Country Husband / John Cheever --
Sonny's Blues / James Baldwin --
The Cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe --
An Occurrence at Owl Creek / Ambrose Bierce --
Blow-up / Julio Cortazar --
Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty --
Fenstad's Mother / Charles Baxter --
Our Friend Judith / Doris Lessing --
A Conversation with my Father / Grace Paley --
A Rose for Emily / Willia Faulkner --
A Pair of Tickets / Amy Tan --
The Lady with the Dog / Anton Chekhov --
Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
The Loons / Margaret Laurence --
Janus / Ann Beattie --
How Much Land Does a Man Need? / Leo Tolstoy --
Her First Ball / Katherine Mansfield --
A Souvenir of Japan / Angela Carter --
The Secret Sharer / Joseph Conrad --
Love Medicine / Louise Erdrich --
The Watcher / Guy Vanderhaeghe --
Odour of Chrysnathemums ; The Rocking-horse Winner ; Passages from Essays and Letters / D.H. Lawrence --
The Lame Shall Enter First ; Everythin that Rises must Converge ; Passages from Essays and Letters / Flannery O'Connor --
The Water People / Rudolfo Anaya --
Sanchez / Richard Dokey --
The Last of the Menu Girls / Denise Chavez --
Araby / James Joyce --
Gorilla, my Love / Toni Cade Bambara --
Boys and Girls / Alice Munro --
The Story of an Hour / Kate Chopin --
A Very Short Story / Ernest Hemingway --
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez --
Girl / Jamaica Kincaid --
The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket / Yasunari Kawabata --
The Most Dangerous Game / Richard Connell --
Barn Burning / William Faulkner --
The Management of Grief / Bharati Mukherjee --
The Real Thing / Henry James --
The Yellow Wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman --
A Hunger Artist / Franz Kafka --
The Summer My Grandmother was Supposed to Die / Mordecai Richler --
Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason --
Great Falls / Richard Ford --
Personal Testimony / Lynna Williams --
Into Night / Reginald McKnight --
In Broad Daylight / Ha Jin --
The Black and White / Harold Pinter --
Trifles / Susan Glaspell --
Getting Out / Marsha Norman --
Hedda Gabler / Henrik Ibsen --
Hamlet / William Shakespeare --
The Little Foxes / Lillian Hellman --
Pygmalion / Bernard Shaw --
The Bear ; On the Injurious Effects of Tobacco ; The Cherry Orchard ; Passages from Letters / Anton Chekhov --
Oedipus the King / Sophocles --
The Importance of Being Earnest / Oscar Wilde --
Blood Relations / Sharon Pollock --
Fences / August Wilson --
Death of a Salesman / Arthur Miller --
A Midsummer Night's Dream / William Shakespeare --
Antigone / Sophocles --
A Streetcar Named Desire / Tennessee Williams --
Top Girls / Caryl Churchill.