Part �� Works 1.Rip Van Winkle-Washington Irving (1819-1820) 2.The Masque of the Red Death Edgar Allan Poe (1842) 3.A Horseman in the Sky-Ambrose Bierce (1889) 4.Araby-James Joyce (1914) 5.The Mark on the Wall-Virginia Woolf (1917) 6.The Witness for the Prosecution-Agatha Christie (1925) 7.The Snows of Kilimanjaro-Ernest Hemingway (1938) 8.A Good Man Is Hard to Find-Flannery O'Connor (1953) 9.What We Talk About When We Talk About Love-Raymond Carver (1981) 10.Happy Endings-Margaret Atwood (1983) 11.An Excerpt from Come Over Come Over-Lynda Barry (1990) 12.Lunch Hour-John Updike (1995) 13.Great Expectations- Charles Dickens (1860-1861) 14.A Rose for Emily-William Faulkner (1930) 15.Human Moments in World War ��-Donald Richard DeLillo (1983) Part �� Selected Criticism 1.Interpretation-Terence Eagleton (2013) 2.Why Do We Read Fiction?- Robert Penn Warren (1986) 3.Types of Narration-Wayne C. Booth (1961) 4.The Plot Edward Morgan Forster (1927) 5.What Is Metafiction?-Patricia Waugh (1984) 6.A Reading of \"What We Talk About When We Talk About Love-Arthur M.Saltzman (1988) 7.The Meaning of \"A Rose for Emily\"-William Faulkner (1959) Part �� Replaceable Works 1.Can-Can-Arturo Vivante (1972) 2.Knock-Fredric Brown (1948) 3.The Cop Who Loved Flowers-Henry Slesar (1966) 4.Living with Contradictions-Lynne Tillman (1982) 5.Blue- David Brooks (1985) 6.A String of Beads- Somerset Maugham (1951) 7.The Door- Elwyn Brooks White (1939) 8.A Most Dangerous Guy Indeed-Damon Runyon (1950) 9.Haircut Ring Lardner (1957) 10.The Second Death Graham Greene (1929) 11.The Chaser-John Collier (1940) 12.No One's a Mystery-Elizabeth Tallent (1985) 13.The Romancer-Hector Hugh Munro (1914) 14.The Gollan-Alfred Edgar Coppard (1929) 15.The Bank Robbery-Steven Schutzman (1976) Glossary Appendix: Two Sample Essays