Why study literature at all?
Bright and morning star / Richard Wright
Everyday use / Alice Walker
The gift of the magi / O. Henry
A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor
The interlopers / H.H. Munro
The legend of sleepy hollow / Washington Irving
The necklace / Guy de Maupassant
The nightingale and the rose / Oscar Wilde
Paul's case / Willa Cather
The shawl / Cynthia Ozick
Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston
A temporary matter / Jhumpa Lahiri
The things they carried / Tim O'Brien
The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Glossary of literary terms.