Author Index

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Here's a list showing every story, given alphabetically by the author's last name or the anonymous work in which it was found.

Each listing also includes the year of publication.

"Completed" means the story has all the intended annotations and questions; "plain" means it has almost none.

Following the posted stories is a list of stories I'm planning to post in the future.

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--Part One: Posted Stories--

1,001 Nights, The:

• "The Man who Never Laughed During the Rest of His Days" (1882) (plain)

Andersen, Hans Christian:

• "The Emperor's New Clothes" (1837) (plain)

Bible, The:

• "Susanna and the Elders" (2nd century BCE, translation 1611, revised) (plain)

Bierce, Ambrose:

• "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (1890) (plain)

Browning, Robert:

• "The Pied Piper" (1842) (plain)

Cather, Willa:

• "Acoma" from Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) (completed)

Chase, J. Smeaton:

• "The Penance of Magdalena" (1915) (plain)

Chaucer, Geoffrey:

• "The Pardoner's Tale" (1400/1904) (plain)

Chekhov, Anton:

• "The Lottery Ticket" (1887) (plain)

Chopin, Kate:

• "A Pair of Silk Stockings" (1897) (plain)

Crane, Stephen:

• "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" (1898) (plain)

Doyle, Arthur Conan:

• "The Speckled Band" (1892) (plain)

Faulkner, William:

• "Landing in Luck" (1919) (plain)

Fitzgerald, F. Scott:

• "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" (1920) (plain)

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins:

• "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892) (plain)

Grimm's Fairy Tales:

• "Iron Hans" (1812) (plain)

Harte, Bret:

• "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" (plain)

Hawthorne, Nathaniel:

• "Young Goodman Brown" (1835) (plain)

Hearne, Lafcadio:

• "Oshidori (The Mandarin Ducks)" (1904) (plain)

Hemingway, Ernest:

• "Hills Like White Elephants" (1927) (plain)

Henry, O.:

• "The Caballero's Way" (1914) (completed)

Irving, Washington:

• "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) (plain)

Jacobs, Joseph:

• "Childe Rowland" (1890) (completed)

Jacobs, W. W.:

• "The Monkey's Paw" (1902) (plain)

James, M. R.:

• "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" (1904) (completed)

Jewett, Sarah Orne:

• "A White Heron" (1886) (plain)

Joyce, James:

• "Araby" (1914) (plain)

Kafka, Franz:

• "Metamorphosis" (1915) (plain)

Kipling, Rudyard:

• "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" (1894) (plain)

Lawrence, D. H.:

• "The Rocking Horse Winner" (1923) (plain)

Mabinogion, The:

• "The Wooing of Olwen" (c 1100; trans c 1840) (plain)

Maupassant, Guy de:

• "The Necklace" (1884) (plain)

Melville, Herman:

• "Bartleby the Scrivener" (1853) (plain)

Mundy, Talbot:

• "The Soul of the Regiment" (1912) (plain)

Ozaki, Yei Theodora:

• "Momotaro" (1908) (plain)

Poe, Edgar Allan:

• "The Cask of Amontillado" (1846) (completed)

Saki:

• "The Open Window" (1911) (plain)

Stockton, Frank R.:

• "The Lady or the Tiger?" (1882) (plain)

Tolstoy, Leo:

• "The Three Hermits" (1884) (plain)

Twain, Mark:

• "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" (1865) (plain)

Wells, H. G.:

• "The Door in the Wall" (1906) (in progress: notes and Characters list added)

Wilde, Oscar:

• "The Happy Prince" (1888) (plain)

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--Part Two: Stories Planned for the Future--

1,001 Nights:

• "Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp"
• "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves"
• "The Fisherman and the Jinni"
• "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor"

Andersen, Hans Christian:

• "The Little Match Girl"
• "The Little Mermaid"
• "The Princess and the Pea"
• "The Ugly Duckling"

Anonymous:

• "Beowulf"
• "Cuchulain"
• "Robin Hood"
• "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"

Bierce, Ambrose:

• "A Horseman in the Sky"
• "The Man and the Snake"

Browning, Robert:

• "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"

Cather, Willa:

• "The Enchanted Bluff"
• "Paul's Case"

Chase, J. Smeaton:

• "The Bells of San Gabriel"
• "The Buried Treasure of Simi"

Chaucer, Geoffrey:

• "The Knight's Tale"

Chekhov, Anton

• "Rothschild's Fiddle"

Chopin, Kate:

• "Désirée's Baby"
• "The Storm"
• "The Story of an Hour"

Crane, Stephen:

• "The Blue Hotel"
• "The Open Boat"

Doyle, Arthur Conan:

• "The Empty House"
• "The Musgrave Ritual"
• "The Red-Headed League"
• "A Scandal in Bohemia"

Fitzgerald, F. Scott:

• "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"

Grimm's Fairy Tales:

• "The Bremen Town Musicians"
• "Cinderella"
• "The Elves and the Shoemaker"
• "Hansel and Gretel"
• "Little Red Riding Hood"
• "Little Snow-White"
• "The Three Snake-Leaves"

Harte, Bret:

• "The Idyl of Red Gulch"
• "The Luck of Roaring Camp"
• "Tennessee's Partner"

Hawthorne, Nathaniel:

• "The Great Stone Face"
• "My Kinsman, Major Molineux"
• "Rappaccini's Daughter"

Hearne, Lafcadio:

• "Mimi-Nashi-Hoichi"
• "Mujina"
• "Yuki-Onna"

Hemingway, Ernest:

• "Cat in the Rain"
• "Indian Camp"
• "The Killers"
• "My Old Man"

Henry, O.:

• "The Cactus"
• "The Cop and the Anthem"
• "The Gift of the Magi"
• "The Green Door"
• "Hearts and Hands"
• "The Last Leaf"
• "The Ransom of Red Chief"

Irving, Washington:

• "The Devil and Tom Walker"
• "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"

Joyce, James:

• "The Dead"

Kafka, Franz:

• "A Country Doctor"
• "A Hunger Artist"
• "In the Penal Colony"

Kipling, Rudyard:

• "Kaa's Hunting"
• "Miracle of Purun Bhagat"
• "Mowgli's Brothers"
• "The Phantom 'Rickshaw"
• "Tiger! Tiger!"

Mabinogion, The:

• "Lludd and Llevelys"
• "Pwyll Prince of Dyved"
• "Taliesin"

Maugham, W. Somerset

• "The Verger"

Maupassant, Guy de:

• "Boule de Suif"

Ozaki, Yei Theodora:

• "The Bamboo-Cutter and the Moon-Child"
• "Kintaro, the Golden Boy"
• "The Tongue-Cut Sparrow"
• "Urashima Taro, the Fisher Lad"

Poe, Edgar Allan:

• "The Masque of the Red Death"
• "The Tell-Tale Heart"

Saki:

• "The Interlopers"

Stockton, Frank R.:

• "The Griffin and the Minor Canon"

Tolstoy, Leo:

• "How Much Land Does a Man Need?"
• "Ivan the Fool"

Twain, Mark:

• "A True Story, Repeated Word for Word As I Heard It"

Wilde, Oscar:

• "The Nightingale and the Rose"

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