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Document Outline
Title Page
Contents Introduction: Jeffrey Eugenides
First Love and Other Sorrows: Harold Brodkey
The Lady with the Little Dog: Anton Chekhov
Love: Grace Paley
A Rose for Emily: William Faulkner
The Dead: James Joyce
Dirty Wedding: Denis Johnson
Natasha: David Benzmozgis
Some Other, Better Otto: Deborah Eisenberg
The Hitchhiking Game: Milan Kundera
Lovers of Their Time: William Trevor
Mouche: Guy De Maupassant
The Moon in Its Flight: Gilbert Sorrentino
Spring in Fialta: Vladimir Nabokov
How to be an Other Woman: Lorrie Moore
Yours: Mary Robison
The Bad Thing: David Gates
First Love: Isaac Babel
Tonka: Robert Musil
Jon: George Saunders
Red Rose, White Rose: Eileen Chang
Fireworks: Richard Ford
We Didn't: Stuart Dybek
Something That Needs Nothing: Miranda July
The Magic Barrel: Bernard Malamud
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Raymond Carver
Innocence: Harold Brodkey
The Bear Came Over the Mountain: Alice Munro
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