MASTERPLOTS II Volume 2

MASTERPLOTS II SHORT STORY SERIES REVISED EDITION

Volume 2 Chi-Err Editor, Revised Edition CHARLES MAY California State University, Long Beach

Editor, First Edition FRANK N. MAGILL

SALEM PRESS Pasadena, California Hackensack, New Jersey

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Child of Queen Victoria— William Plomer The Childhood of Luvers—Boris Pasternak Children of Strikers—FredChappell Children on Their Birthdays—Truman Capote The Children's Campaign—Par Lagerkvist A Child's Drawings—Varlam Shalamov Childybawn—SednO'Faoldin China Browne—Gerald Vizenor Christ in Concrete—Pietro Di Donato Christmas Every Day—HeinrichBoll A Christmas Memory—Truman Capote Christmas Morning—Frank O'Connor Chroma—Frederick Barthelme The Chronicle of Young Satan—Mark Twain The Chrysanthemums—John Steinbeck Cimarron—Francine Prose The Cinderella Waltz—Ann Beattie Cinnamon Shops—Bruno Schulz The Circular Ruins—Jorge Luis Borges City Boy—Leonard Michaels City Life—MaryGordon City of Boys—BethNugent Clarisa—Isabel Allende Clay—James Joyce A Clean, Well-Lighted Place—Ernest Hemingway The Cliff— Charles Baxter The Closing Down of Summer—Alistair MacLeod Cloud, Castle, Lake—Vladimir Nabokov Cloud Cover Caribbean—Ana Lydia Vega Coach—MaryRobison The Coal Shoveller—Keith Fort The Collector of Treasures—Bessie Head Color Me Real—J.California Cooper Color of Darkness—James Purdy Come Out the Wilderness—James Baldwin . . The Comedian—JohnL'Heureux Comfort—David Michael Kaplan Coming, Aphrodite—Willa Cather

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Communist—RichardFord II Condel—Joseph Conrad Condolence Visit—Rohinton Mistry The Conjurer Made Off with the Dish—Naguib Mahfouz Consolation—Giovanni Verga A Conversation with My Father—Grace Paley The Conversion of the Jews—Philip Roth The Convict—James Lee Burke Cooking Lesson—Rosario Castellanos Counterparts—James Joyce Counting Months—David Leavitt A Country Doctor—Franz Kafka A Country Girl—Mary Hood The Country Husband—John Cheever A Country Love Story—Jean Stafford The Country of the Blind—//. G. Wells The Count's Wife—Dino Buzzati The Coup de Grace—Ambrose Bierce The Courting of Sister Wisby—Sarah Orne Jewett The Cousins—Elizabeth Spencer Cowboys Are My Weakness—Pam Houston Crazy Sunday—F. Scott Fitzgerald The Creature—Edna O'Brien Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers—Stanley Elkin A Critical Introduction to The Best ofS. J. Perelman by Sidney Namlerep—S.J. Perelman Critique de la Vie Quotidienne—Donald Barthelme The Crocodile—Fyodor Dostoevski Crossing into Poland—Isaac Babel Cruel and Barbarous Treatment—Mary McCarthy The Cruise of The Breadwinner—H.E. Bates The Curse—AndreDubus Customs of the Country—Madison Smartt Bell The Cyclists' Raid—Frank Rooney Daddy Was a Number Runner—Louise Meriwether Daddy Wolf—James Purdy Damballah—John Edgar Wideman • Dancing After Hours—AndreDubus Dante and the Lobster—Samuel Beckett . . . Dare's Gift—Ellen Glasgow The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze—William Saroyan

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Dark Avenues—IvanBunin The Dark City—ConradAiken The Darling—Anton Chekhov The Daughters of the Late Colonel—Katherine Mansfield Dawn of Remembered Spring—Jesse Stuart The Day Stalin Died—Doris Lessing The Day the Flowers Came—David Madden The Day They Took My Uncle—Lionel G. Garcia The Daydreams of a Drunk Woman—Clarice Lispector De Mortuis—John Collier The Dead—James Joyce The Dead Man—Horacio Quiroga Dead Men's Path—ChinuaAchebe ADeal in Wheat—FrankNorris Death and the Child—Stephen Crane Death in Jerusalem—William Trevor Death in Midsummer—YukioMishima Death in the Woods—Sherwood Anderson . Death in Venice—Thomas Mann Death of a Huntsman—ft E.Ba tes Death of a Traveling Salesman—Zswdora Welty The Death of Ivan Ilyich—Leo Tolstoy De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period—J. D.Salinger Dede—Mavis Gallant Deer Woman—Paula Gunn Allen The Defeated—Nadine Gordimer Defender of the Faith—Philip Roth The Delicate Prey—Paul Bowles Delta Autumn— William Faulkner The Deluge at Norderney—IsakDinesen The Demon Lover—Elizabeth Bowen Demonology—-RickMoody A Descent into the Maelstrom—Edgar Allan Poe The Desire to Be a Man—Auguste Villiers del'Isle-Adam Desiree's Baby—Kate Chopin The Destructors—Graham Greene The Devil and Daniel Webster—Stephen Vincent Benet The Devil and Tom Walker—Washington Irving Dharma—Vikram Chandra The Diamond as Big as the Ritz—F. Scott Fitzgerald The Diamond Lens—Fitz- James O'Brien The Diary of a Madman—Nikolai Gogol

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MASTERPLOTS II The Difference—EllenGlasgow DiGrasso—Isaac Babel Dinner at Eight—Ezekiel Mphahlele Disorder and Early Sorrow—Thomas Mann The Displaced Person—Flannery O'Connor The Distance of the Moon—ItaloCalvino A Distant Episode—Paul Bowles The District Doctor—IvanTurgenev Doc's Story—John Edgar Wideman Dr. Heidegger's Experiment—Nathaniel Hawthorne The Doctor's Son—JohnO'Hara Doe Season—David Michael Kaplan Dog Days—JudyBudnitz Dog Stories—Francine Prose Dogged Underdog—Irvin S. Cobb The Doll Queen—Carlos Fuentes The Doll's House—Katherine Mansfield TheDonagh—William Carleton Don't Call Me by My Right Name—James Purdy The Door—E. B. White The Downward Path to Wisdom—Katherine Anne Porter Dragons—Julian Barnes Dragon's Seed—Madison Smartt Bell Dream Cargoes—J. G.Ballard Dream Children—Gail Godwin The Dream Lover— WilliamBoyd The Dream of a Ridiculous Man—Fyodor Dostoevski Dream Stuff—DavidMalouf Dreamers in a Dead Language—Grace Paley Drenched in Light—Zora Neale Hurston A Drive in the Country—Graham Greene The Drover's Wife—Henry Lawson The Drunkard—Frank O'Connor Dry September— William Faulkner The Duel—Anton Chekhov Duel—Richard Matheson The Dunwich Horror—H. P. Lovecraft

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Ecco—Ronald Sukenick Edie—Harriet Doerr Editha—William Dean Howells Edward and God—Milan Kundera The Egg—Sherwood Anderson Eight Views of Tokyo—OsamuDazai The Eighty-Yard Run—Irwin Shaw Eisenheim the Illusionist—Steven Millhauser The Elephant—Stawomir Mrozek The Elephant Vanishes—Haruki Murakami Emergency—Denis Johnson Emperor of the Air—Ethan Canin The Empress's Ring—Nancy Hale The Enchanted Doll—PaulGallico The End—Samuel Beckett The End of Old Horse—Simon J. Ortiz End of the Game—Julio Cortdzar The Enduring Chill—Flannery O'Connor Enemies—AntonChekhov The Enemies—DylanThomas Enero—Mary Helen Ponce The Engagement in Santo Domingo—HeinrichvonKleist The English Lesson—Nicholasa Mohr The Englishwoman—Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Enoch Soames—MaxBeerbohm The Enormous Radio—JohnCheever Entropy—Thomas Pynchon Envy—Cynthia Ozick EPIC AC—Kurt Vonnegut An Episode of War—Stephen Crane Errand—Raymond Carver Titlelndex

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