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James, Henry. The Turn of the Screw. Elegant Ebooks, 1898.
Kafka, Franz. The Metamorphosis, translated by David Wyllie, Project Gutenberg, 2002.
Mann, Thomas. Death in Venice, translated by Kenneth Burke, Alfred A. Knopf, 1925.
McCullers, Carson. “The Ballad of the Sad Café.” The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories, Houghton Mifflin,1951.
Tolstoy, Leo. The Death of Ivan Ilych, translated by Louise Maude and Aylmer Maude, CreateSpace Independent Pub, 2014.

Lesson 4: Representing Thought and Speech

Atwood, Margaret. “Death by Landscape.” Harper's, vol. 281, no. 1683, 1 Aug. 1990, pp. 49–57.
Summers, Merna. “Threshing Time.” North of the Battle, Douglas and McIntyre, 1988, pp. 178–196.

Lesson 6: Structure and Style

Clarke, Arthur C. “The Star.” The Nine Billion Names of God: The Best Short Stories of Arthur C. Clarke, Signet/NAL, 1974, pp. 235–240.

Lesson 7: More on Structure and Style

Atwood, Margaret. “Death by Landscape.” Harper's, vol. 281, no. 1683, 1 Aug. 1990, pp. 49–57.
Supplementary Reading
Jackson, Shirley. “The Lottery.” The New Yorker, 26 June 1948.
Bradbury, Ray. “There Will Come Soft Rains.” The Martian Chronicles, Doubleday, 1950.

Lesson 8: Aspects of Complexity

Bradbury, Ray. “There Will Come Soft Rains.” The Martian Chronicles, Doubleday, 1950.
Laurence, Margaret. “A Bird in the House.” A Bird in the House, introduction by Robert Gibbs, McClelland and Stewart, 1974, pp. 89–113.
Wyatt, Rachel. “Visitation.” Things Feigned or Imagined: The Craft in Fiction, edited by Fred Stenson, The Banff Centre Press, 2002, pp. 26–32.
Gallant, Mavis. “My Heart Is Broken.” The Harbrace Anthology of Literature, edited by Jon C. Stott et al., Harcourt Brace Canada, 1994, pp. 1663–1669.
Thein, Madeleine. “Simple Recipes.” Trek, Fall 2002, pp. 20–25.

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Clarke, Arthur C. “The Star.” The Nine Billion Names of God: The Best Short Stories of Arthur C. Clarke, Signet/NAL, 1974, pp. 235–240.
Faulkner, William. “A Rose for Emily.” The Forum, 30 April 1930.
O’Connor, Flannery. “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.” A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing, 1953.
Munro, Alice. “Thanks for the Ride.” Dance of the Happy Shades, Ryerson Press, 1968.
Richler, Mordecai. “Some Grist for Mervyn’s Mill.” Canadian Short Stories, edited by Russell Brown and Donna Bennett, Pearson Longman, 2005, pp. 171–193.
Márquez, Gabriel García. One Hundred Years of Solitude, translated by Gregory Rabassa, Avon Books, 1971.
Munro, Alice. “Open Secrets.” Open Secrets: Stories by Alice Muroe, McClelland and Stewart, 1994, pp. 129–160.
Atwood, Margaret. “Death by Landscape.” Harper's, vol. 281, no. 1683, 1 Aug. 1990, pp. 49–57.
Jackson, Shirley. “The Lottery.” The New Yorker, 26 June 1948.
Joyce, James. “The Dead.” Dubliners, Grant Richards, 1914.
Eliot, George. Middlemarch. William Blackwood and Sons, 1871–1872.
Novellas
James, Henry. The Turn of the Screw. Elegant Ebooks, 1898.
Kafka, Franz. The Metamorphosis, translated by David Wyllie, Project Gutenberg, 2002.
Mann, Thomas. Death in Venice, translated by Kenneth Burke, Alfred A. Knopf, 1925.
McCullers, Carson. “The Ballad of the Sad Café.” The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories, Houghton Mifflin,1951.
Tolstoy, Leo. The Death of Ivan Ilych, translated by Louise Maude and Aylmer Maude, CreateSpace Independent Pub, 2014.

Lesson 9: Plot

O’Connor, Flannery. “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.” A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing, 1953.

Lesson 10: Objective Correlative

Jackson, Shirley. “The Lottery.” The New Yorker, 26 June 1948.
Laurence, Margaret. “A Bird in the House.” A Bird in the House, introduction by Robert Gibbs, McClelland and Stewart, 1974, pp. 89–113.
Richler, Mordecai. “Some Grist for Mervyn’s Mill.” Canadian Short Stories, edited by Russell Brown and Donna Bennett, Pearson Longman, 2005, pp. 171–193.
Bradbury, Ray. “There Will Come Soft Rains.” The Martian Chronicles, Doubleday, 1950.
Clarke, Arthur C. “The Star.” The Nine Billion Names of God: The Best Short Stories of Arthur C. Clarke, Signet/NAL, 1974, pp. 235–240.
Atwood, Margaret. “Death by Landscape.” Harper's, vol. 281, no. 1683, 1 Aug. 1990, pp. 49–57.

Lesson 11: More Guidelines for Revision

Urquhart, Jane. “Returning to the Village.” Writing Away: The PEN Canada Travel Anthology, McClelland and Stewart, 1994, pp. 317– 325.
Atwood, Margaret. “Death by Landscape.” Harper's, vol. 281, no. 1683, 1 Aug. 1990, pp. 49–57.
Summers, Merna. “Threshing Time.” North of the Battle, Douglas and McIntyre, 1988, pp. 178–196.
Findley, Timothy. “Stones.” Stones, Viking, 1988, pp. 193–221.