Browse the short stories below to see works by major authors associated with American Modermism.
William Faulkner "A Rose for Emily" (1930) on
William Faulkner “Barn Burning” (1939)
Zora Neale Hurston "Spunk" (1925)
Zora Neale Hurston "Gilded Six Bits"
Ernest Hemingway "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" (1936)
Ernest Hemingway "Soldier's Home"
Richard Connell "The Most Dangerous Game" (1924)
James Thurber “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” (1939)
Willa Cather "Neighbour Rosicky” (1932) on Canvas & Linked
Richard Wright "The Man Who Was Almost a Man" (1940) on Canvas & Linked
Thomas Wolf “The Far and the Near” (1935) on Canvas & Linked
These articles may be used as secondary sources for your research.
"A Rose for Emily" from Short Stories for Students
“Barn Burning” from Short Stories for Students
"Spunk" from Short Stories for Students
“The Gilded Six-Bits” from Short Stories for Students
"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" from Short Stories for Students
"Soldier's Home" from Literary Resource Center
"The Most Dangerous Game" from Short Stories for Students
“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” from Short Stories for Students
"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" from: The Georgia Review
"Neighbour Rosicky" from Short Stories for Students
"The Man who Was Almost a Man" from Short Stories for Students
Katherine Anne Porter "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" (1930)
Katherine Anne Porter "Flowering Judas" (1930)
Ernest Hemingway "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1936)
Ernest Hemingway "Hills Like White Elephants" (1923)
Ernest Hemingway "The Killers" (1927)
Ernest Hemingway "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place (1933)
John Steinbeck "The Chrysanthemums" (1937)
James Thurber "The Night the Ghost Got In" (1933)
"Pale Horse, Pale Rider" from American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies
"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" from Short Stories for Students
"The Snows of Kilimanjaro" from Short Stories for Students
"The Night the Ghost Got In" from Short Stories for Students
"Hills Like White Elephants" from Short Stories for Students
"The Killers" from American Writers, Retrospective Supplement 1
"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" from Reference Guide to Short Fiction
"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" from Short Stories for Students
"The Chrysanthemums" from Short Stories for Students
"A Worn Path" from Short Stories for Students
"The New Dress" from Short Stories for Students