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Shoultz -- American Modernism: The Great Gatsby - Spring 2025: Short Stories

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Collected Stories I

Browse the short stories below to see works by major authors associated with American Modernism.

Willa Cather "Neighbour Rosicky” (1932)

Richard Connell "The Most Dangerous Game" (1924)

William Faulkner "A Rose for Emily" (1930)

William Faulkner “Barn Burning” (1939)

F. Scott Fitzgerald "Babylon Revisited" (1931)

F. Scott Fitzgerald "The Jelly-Bean" (1922)

Ernest Hemingway "Soldier's Home" (1925)

Zora Neale Hurston "Spunk" (1925) 

Zora Neale Hurston "The Gilded Six Bits" (1933)

Katherine Mansfield "The Garden Party" (1921)

Thomas Wolf “The Far and the Near” (1935)

Secondary source material for short stories listed in Collected Short Stories I (read actual story first!)

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

"Soldier's Home" from Literary Resource Center

"The Most Dangerous Game from Short Stories for Students

"Neighbour Rosicky from Short Stories for Students

"The Man who Was Almost a Man from Short Stories for Students

"The Far and Near"

 

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