Important Short Stories (UGC NET Unit III)

 

James Joyce

  • Araby
  • The Dead
  • Eveline
  • The Sisters

 

Mark Twain

  • The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
  • The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
  • The Invalid's Story
  • No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger
  • A Dog's Tale
  • A Ghost's Story
  • The Stolen White Elephant

 

Washington Irving

  • The Devil and Tom Walker
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
  • Rip Van Winkle

 

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  • The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World
  • A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
  • The Woman Who Came at Six O'Clock
  • Eyes of a Blue Dog
  • Death Constant Beyond Love
  • The Autumn of the Patriarch

 

Ralph Ellison

  • King of the Bingo Game

 

Saki (Hector Hugh Munro)

  • The Open Window

 

Joseph Conrad

  • The Secret Sharer

 

Ernest Hemingway

  • The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber
  • Hills Like White Elephants
  • In Another Country
  • A Clean, Well-lighted Place
  • The Snows of Kilimanjaro
  • The Killers
  • Indian Camp
  • The Undefeated

 

Ray Bradbury

  • There Will Come Soft Rains
  • The Veldt
  • A Sound of Thunder
  • The Fog Horn
  • The Night
  • The Lake
  • The Illustrated Man
  • All Summer in a Day
  • The Third Expedition
  • I Sing the Body Electric
  • Zero Hour

 

Doris Lessing

  • Through the Tunnel
  • Debbie and Julie
  • To Room Nineteen

 

Nathaniel Hawthorne

  • Young Goodman Brown
  • The Minister's Black Veil
  • My Kinsman, Major Molineux

 

William Faulkner

  • The Bear
  • Barn Burning
  • A Rose for Emily
  • That Evening Sun

 

Alice Walker

  • Everyday Use
  • Roselily

 

Edgar Allan Poe

  • The Fall of the House of Usher
  • The Tell-Tale Heart
  • The Cask of Amontillado
  • The Masque of the Red Death
  • The Purloined Letter
  • Murder in the Rue Morgue

 

O. Henry

  • The Gift of the Magi
  • Mammon and the Archer
  • A Retrieved Reformation

 

Katherine Mansfield

  • Miss Brill
  • The Garden Party
  • Bliss
  • The Fly
  • The Doll's House
  • Marriage a la Mode

 

Arthur Conan Doyle

  • The Red-Headed League

 

D. H. Lawrence

  • The Rocking-Horse Winner
  • Odour of Chrysanthemums

 

James Baldwin

  • Sonny's Blues
  • The Rockpile
  • Going to Meet the Man
  • Previous Condition

 

Nadine Gordimer

  • The Train from Rhodesia
  • Town and Country Lovers
  • The Ultimate Safari

 

Herman Melville

  • Bartleby the Scrivener, A Tale of Wall Street

 

H. G. Wells

  • The Door in the Wall

 

John Steinbeck

  • Flight
  • The Pearl

 

Franz Kafka

  • In the Penal Colony
  • A Hunger Artist
  • The Metamorphosis

 

John Galsworthy

  • The Japanese Quince

 

Richard Wright

  • The Man Who Lived Underground
  • Big Black Good Man

 

Margaret Atwood

  • Rape Fantasies
  • Stone Mattress
  • Happy Endings

 

Chinua Achebe

  • Vengeful Creditor

 

F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • Babylon Revisited
  • Crazy Sunday
  • The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  • Two Wrongs
  • The Rich Boy
  • Winter Dreams
  • May Day

 

Angela Carter

  • The Bloody Chamber
  • The Erlking

 

Thomas Mann

  • Disorder and Early Sorrow

 

Albert Camus

  • The Quest

 

Guy de Maupassant

  • The Necklace

 

Virginia Woolf

  • The New Dress
  • Kew Gardens
  • A Haunted House
  • The Mark on the Wall
  • An Unwritten Novel
  • Solid Objects

 

Stephen Crane

  • The Open Boat

 

George Orwell

  • Shooting an Elephant

 

Langston Hughes

  • Slave on the Block
  • The Blues I'm Playing

 

Sherwood Anderson

  • Sophistication
  • Death in the Woods
  • Hands

 

Arthur C. Clarke

  • The Star

 

Alice Munro

  • Boys and Girls

 

Leo Tolstoy

  • The Death of Ivan Ilych
  • Three Questions
  • How Much Land Does a Man Need?

 

R. K. Narayan

  • A Horse and Two Goats
  • An Astrologer's Day
  • Father's Help
  • Engine Trouble
  • Leela's Friend
  • Under the Banyan Tree
  • Naga
  • Selvi


 

Anton Chekhov

  • The Lady with the Pet Dog
  • Gooseberries
  • The Peasants

 

Gertrude Stein

  • Melanctha

 

Toni Morrison

  • Recitatif
  • Sweetness

 

Bessie Head

  • Snapshots of a Wedding

 

Jamaica Kincaid

  • What I Have Been Doing Lately
  • Girl

 

Henry James

  • The Beast in the Jungle
  • The Jolly Corner

 

John Steinbeck

  • The Chrysanthemums

 

Vladimir Nabokov

  • A Guide to Berlin
  • Symbols and Signs

 

Gustave Flaubert

  • A Simple Heart

 

Zora Neale Hurston

  • Spunk
  • The Gilded Six-Bits
  • Sweat
  • Conscience of the Court

 

Rohinton Mistry

  • Swimming Lessons
  • The Ghost of Firozsha Baag
  • One Sunday
  • Auspicious Occasion
  • Condolence Visit
  • The Collectors
  • Of White Hairs and Cricket
  • The Paying Guests
  • Squatter
  • Lend Me Your Light
  • Exercisers

 

Oscar Wilde

  • The Canterville Ghost
  • The Nightingale and the Rose
  • The Selfish Giant
  • The Happy Prince
  • The Sphinx without a Secret

 

Bharati Mukherjee

  • The Management of Grief
  • The Middleman

 

Nikolai Gogol

  • The Overcoat

 

Robert Penn Warren

  • Blackberry Winter

 

Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • The Grand Inquisitor

 

George Eliot

  • The Lifted Veil

 

Bernard Malamud

  • The Magic Barrel
  • Black Is My Favourite Color

 

Rudyard Kipling

  • Mrs. Bathurst

 

Thomas Mann

  • Death in Venice

 

Richard Wright

  • The Man Who Was Almost a Man

 

Alexander Pushkin

  • The Stationmaster

 

Jean-Paul Sartre

  • The Wall

 

Honore de Balzac

  • La Grande Breteche

 

Milan Kundera

  • The Hitchhiking Game

 

Sir Walter Scott

  • Wandering Willie's Tale

 

Italo Calvino

  • The Feathered Ogre

 

Saul Bellow

  • Leaving the Yellow House
  • A Silver Dish

 

Graham Greene

  • The Destructors

 

W. Somerset Maugham

  • The Fall of Edward Barnard

 

J. D. Salinger

  • A Perfect Day for Bananafish
  • The Laughing Man
  • Teddy

 

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  • Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter
  • Meeting Mrinal

 

John Updike

  • The Slump

 

Jhumpa Lahiri

  • A Temporary Matter
  • When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine
  • Interpreter of Maladies
  • Mrs. Sen's
  • The Blessed House
  • The Treatment of Bibi Haldar
  • The Third and Final Continent
  • Unaccustomed Earth
  • Nobody's Business
  • Going Ashore

 

Ben Okri

  • In the Shadow of War

 

David Malouf

  • Great Day


Salman Rushdie

  • The Prophet's Hair

E. M. Forster

  • The Celestial Omnibus

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