Please see below a list of links to US short stories available to read online. They've been carefully selected by Mr Lakin and make a really good list of introductory reading to American Literature.
Enjoy!
Ms Cook
- Hermann Melivlle (Bartleby) http://www.bartleby.com/129/
- Baldwin (Sonny's Blues) http://www.scribd.com/doc/7086554/Sonnys-Blues-by-James-Baldwin
- Hemingway (White Elephants) http://www.jamesrament.com/a-short-story—hills-like-white-elephants-by-ernest-hemingway/
- John Cheever (The Swimmer) http://202.121.96.130/Download/20091207184417_734640623434.pdf
- Salinger (Collected) http://moodle.tbaisd.org/pluginfile.php/64355/mod_resource/content/1/Nine%2BStories%2Bby%2BJ.D.%2BSalinger.pdf
- Barthelme (The School) http://www.npr.org/programs/death/readings/stories/bart.html
- O'Connor (A Good man is hard to find) http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~surette/goodman.html
- Carver (Cathedral) http://www.misanthropytoday.com/cathedral-by-raymond-carver-weekend-short-story/
- Updike (A&P) http://www.tiger-town.com/whatnot/updike/
- Bukowski (Most Beautiful Woman in Town) http://allpoetry.com/poem/8509505-The_Most_Beautiful_Woman_In_Town-by-Charles_Bukowski
- Proulx (Brokeback) http://nothing-rhymes-with-ianto.tumblr.com/post/8947836831/brokeback-mountain-by-annie-proulx
- Foster Wallace (Good Old Neon) http://kalamazoo.coop/sites/default/files/Good%20Old%20Neon.pdf
