Prose Pieces

Piece Ideas

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
http://www.online-literature.com/charlotte-perkins-gilman/2086/

Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville
http://www.amazon.com/Bartleby-Scrivener-Press-Herman-Melville/dp/1406509884/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282293173&sr=1-1

Death by Scrabble by Charlie Fish
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/DeatScra.shtml

The Return by Fernando Sorrentino
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/Retu.shtml

No. 1 Branch Line: The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/BranLine.shtml

The Horla by Guy de Maupassant
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/Horl.shtml

Dracula’s Guest by Bram Stoker
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/DracGues.shtml

The Body Snatcher Robert Louis Stevenson
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/BodySnat.shtml

The Children’s Wing by Joyce Johnson
Either from In the Night Café: http://www.amazon.com/Night-Cafe-Joyce-Johnson/dp/0525247416
OR
Harper’s Magazine: http://www.harpers.org/subjects/JoyceJohnson

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
http://www.amazon.com/Extremely-Loud-Incredibly-Close-Novel/dp/0618711651/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282290624&sr=1-3

Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
http://www.amazon.com/Everything-Illuminated-Jonathan-Safran-Foer/dp/0060529709/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282290624&sr=1-4

Kissing Lessons by Caragh O’brien
http://usedmarketplace.borders.com/booksearch?qwork=-82176984&matches=9&keyword=kissing+lessons&cm_sp=works*listing*title

My Boyfriend's Back and There's Gonna Be Laundry by Sandra Shamas
http://usedmarketplace.borders.com/booksearch?binding=&mtype=&keyword=My+Boyfriend%27s+Back+and+There%27s+Gonna+Be+Laundry&hs.x=0&hs.y=0&hs=Submit

Explaining Death to the Dog by Susan Perabo
http://usedmarketplace.borders.com/booksearch?binding=&mtype=&keyword=Explaining+Death+to+the+Dog&hs.x=0&hs.y=0&hs=Submit

Driving with Dead People by Monica Holloway
http://www.amazon.com/Driving-Dead-People-Monica-Holloway/dp/1416955127/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282291568&sr=1-1

After the Wink by Carolyn Steele Agosta
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/AfteWink.shtml

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
http://www.amazon.com/Catcher-Rye-J-D-Salinger/dp/0316769177/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282611553&sr=1-1

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
http://www.amazon.com/Kite-Runner-Khaled-Hosseini/dp/1594480001/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282290757&sr=1-1

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kid
http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Life-Bees-Monk-Kidd/dp/0143114557/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282290810&sr=1-1

Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
http://www.amazon.com/Sophies-Choice-Modern-Library-William/dp/0679602895/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282290924&sr=1-1

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
http://www.amazon.com/Girl-Interrupted-Susanna-Kaysen/dp/0679746048/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282292695&sr=1-1

The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing
http://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Child-Doris-Lessing/dp/0679721827/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282292893&sr=1-1

Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
http://www.amazon.com/Kitchen-Black-book-Banana-Yoshimoto/dp/0802142443/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282292927&sr=1-3

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
http://www.amazon.com/Snow-Flower-SecretFanNovel/dp/0812980352/ref=pd_sim_b_7

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
http://www.amazon.com/Book-Laughter-Forgetting-Milan-Kundera/dp/0060932147/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282293758&sr=1-1

S.: A Novel about the Balkans by Slavenka Drakulic
http://www.amazon.com/S-Novel-Balkans-Slavenka-Drakulic/dp/0140298444/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282293913&sr=1-1

The Plague by Albert Camus
http://www.amazon.com/Plague-Albert-Camus/dp/0679720219/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282294057&sr=1-1

The Stranger by Albert Camus
http://www.amazon.com/Stranger-Everymans-Library-Albert-Camus/dp/0679420266/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282294103&sr=1-1

The War: A Memoir by Marguerite Duras
http://www.amazon.com/War-Memoir-Marguerite-Duras/dp/1565842219/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282294320&sr=1-4

A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir
http://www.amazon.com/VeryDeathPantheonModernWriters/dp/0394728998/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_5

The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945 by Wladyslaw Szpilman
http://www.amazon.com/Pianist-Extraordinary-Survival-Warsaw-1939-1945/dp/0312263767/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1282681970&sr=8-4

COLLECTIONS
Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka
http://www.amazon.com/Franz-Kafka-Complete-Stories/dp/0805210555/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282293278&sr=1-1

The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald by F. Scott Fitzgerald
http://www.amazon.com/Short-Stories-F-Scott-Fitzgerald/dp/0684842505/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282294695&sr=1-1
 

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition by Ernest Hemingway
http://www.amazon.com/CompleteShortStoriesErnestHemingway/dp/0684843323/ref=pd_sim_b_1

 Stories of Hawaii by Jack London
http://www.amazon.com/Stories-Hawaii-Tales-Pacific-London/dp/0935180087

More Jack London
http://www.online-literature.com/london/

Edgar Allan Poe
http://www.online-literature.com/poe/

H. P. Lovecraft
http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/

Joyce Carol Oats
Cost: $13.57
ISBN-10: 0060501200
Link: http://www.amazon.com/High-Lonesome-Selected-Stories-1966-2006/dp/0060501200/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1282621828&sr=8-1

50 Great Short Stories
Cost: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0553277456
Link: http://www.amazon.com/Fifty-Great-Short-Stories-Milton/dp/0553277456/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1282623596&sr=8-2-fkmr0

The World's Greatest Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)
Cost: $3.50
ISBN-10: 0486447162
Link: http://www.amazon.com/WorldsGreatestStoriesThriftEditions/dp/0486447162/ref=pd_sim_b_2