AP Short Stories

Tragic Sweetness

* "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty
  • Beautiful, strange, heroic


Darker Tales

* "The Destructors" by Graham Greene
  • Excellent, dark tale 

* "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor
  • Another excellent piece.  You should read at least one short story by O'Connor before you leave MVCS.

* "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"  by Ernest Hemingway
  • You know this guy from last year

* "Hunters in the Snow" by Tobias Wolff
  •  Warning: Explicit content

  * "The Swimmer" by John Cheever

  • Strange cautionary tale

 * "The Rocking-Horse Winner" by D. H. Lawrence
  • Stranger cautionary tale

* "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Allegorical cautionary tale

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