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ENGL 3670

The Short Stories

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BACKGROUND TEXTS

"The Shipwrecked Sailor"  (Egypt, c. 2200 BCE)

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The Book of Ruth from The Bible (click on sound button for real audio sound file) (900-500 BCE)

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Grimm's Fairy Tales (Traditional German Folktales collected in the 19th century by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm)

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SHORT STORIES

Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Stories  Read "Ligeia" (1838) and "The Tell-Tale Heart" (1850)

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• Notes 2
• "The Tell-Tale Heart" (1941) short film directed by Jules Dassin
• "The Tell-Tale Heart" (1953) animation with James Mason as narrator

Washington Irving: "Rip Van Winkle" (1819)
"The Devil and Tom Walker" (1824)

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• "Rip Van Winkle" Narrated by Boris Karloff
• "Rip Van Winkle" in claymation (clip 1)
• "Rip Van Winkle" librivox audio recording
• "The Devil and Tom Walker" librivox audio recording

Nathanial Hawthorne: "The Minister's Black Veil" (1836)

• Notes 1

Assignment: Words and Pictures

Herman Melville: "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Tale of Wall Street" (1853)

• "Bartleby, the Scrivener" librivox audio recording
• "The Strange Mister Bartleby" old-time radio drama
• "Bartleby" Theatre Royal old-time radio drama
• "Bartleby, the Scrivener" facsimile edition of original magazine publication
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Guy de Maupassant: "The Piece of String" (1883) and "The Diary of a Madman"

• "A Piece of String" old-time radio drama (streaming audio--clip no. 4)
• "The Diary of a Madman" (librivox recording)
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Anton Chekhov: "The Bet"
"The Bet" (streaming audio)

Stephen Crane: "The Dark Brown Dog" and "The Open Boat"

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Kate Chopin: "Desiree's Baby"

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Edith Wharton: "The Dilettante"

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James Joyce: "Araby " and Dubliners (digital facsimile edition)

Virginia Woolf: Monday or Tuesday (selected stories)

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F. Scott Fitzgerald: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"

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Franz Kafka: "Jackals and Arabs" and "The Report for an Academy"

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• Charles Chesnutt: Selected Stories
• W. W. Jacobs: "The Monkey's Paw"
• Lafcadio Hearne: "The Soul of the Great Bell" and "Yuki-Onna"
• O. Henry: "After Twenty Years," "The Last Leaf" and "A Retrieved Reformation
• Katherine Mansfield: The Garden Party and Other Stories (selected stories)
• Alexander Pushkin: "The Coffin-Maker"
• Leo Tolstoi: "God Sees the Truth But Waits"
• Nikolai Gogol: "The Overcoat"
• Maxim Gorki: "Her Lover"
• Saki (H.H. Munro): "Shredni Vashtar," "The Bull" and "The Open Window