short stories Flashcards
gyat
An American short story author known for his twist endings. He included many of his stories in his collections Cabbages and Kings and The Four Million
Henry (William Sydney Porter, 1862–1910)
An American author many of whose stories feature the semi-autobiographical character Nick Adams. Adams appears in “Big Two-Hearted River,” in which he goes on a fishing trip to the town of Seney, Michigan.
Ernest Hemingway
A short story author and novelist known for her works in the mystery and horror genres. Her most famous short story is “The Lottery,” whose publication in The New Yorker was extremely controversial, garnering her hate mail.
Shirley Jackson (1916–1965)
best known for the novel The Catcher in the Rye. Many of Salinger’s short stories featured the Glass family, including “A Perfect Day for Bananafish,” in which Seymour and Muriel Glass are on vacation at a Florida resort. Seymour meets a young girl named Sybil Carpenter and talks with her about the title creatures, before returning to his hotel room and shooting himself
J. D. Salinger (1919–2010)
known for his works in the detective fiction, science fiction, and horror genres. In “The Cask of Amontillado,” the narrator, Montresor, lures Fortunato into catacombs with the promise of the title wine, but ends up chaining Fortunato to a wall and burying him alive due to unnamed “insults.”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
An American author known for his science fiction works. “There Will Come Soft Rains,” which appears in his collection The Martian Chronicles and takes its title from a Sara Teasdale poem, describes an empty house that survived a nuclear catastrophe.
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012)
A French author who frequently used ironic endings in his stories, including “The Necklace.” In that story, Mathilde Loisel borrows the expensive-looking title piece of jewelry from Madame Forestier, and loses it at a high-class party.
Guy de Maupassant (1850–1893)
An American author whose stories are often set in New England. In “The Minister’s Black Veil,” Hawthorne wrote about Reverend Hopper, who stubbornly refuses to take off the title article of clothing.
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)
A Catholic American author who wrote in the “Southern Gothic” style. In her story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” Bailey takes his family on a vacation; when they stop at a diner, “the grandmother” talks with the owner Red Sammy about The Misfit, an escaped murderer.
Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)
An Argentine author known for his philosophical stories. In “The Library of Babel,” the narrator’s universe is made of adjacent hexagonal rooms, forming a library containing all possible 410-page books consisting of 25 basic characters.
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)
