Reading

Hi -

These are the short stories available online (click the name to see the story), together with the person who has chosen them:

George Orwell, Shooting An Elephant. Alexandra Charalambous

Edgar Allen Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher. Nicos Kozakos.

Ernest Hemingway, A Clean Well-Lighted Place. Vasia Savva.

Franz Kafka, A Hunger Artist. Froso Genethliou.

Roald Dahl, Beware of the Dog. Evanthia Aristodemou.

Katherine Mansfield, Miss Brill. Dora Diomedous.

Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths. Tamara Yeshurun.

Shirley Jackson, The Lottery. Fotinie Kavazi.

DH Lawrence, Tickets, Please. Melina Iordanou.

Kate Chopin, "The Story of an Hour." Elena Stylianou.

The following stories are not online - I will photocopy them and leave them in my departmental pigeonhole tomorrow afternoon.

Doris Lessing, "To Room Nineteen." Marilyn Hadjistylli.

Amy Tan, "The Joy Luck Club." Alexia Papakyriacou.

E. Annie Proulx, "Brokeback Mountain." Elena Nicolaidou.

Nadine Gordimer, "Homage." Xenia Sergiou.

Hanif Kureishi, "My Son The Fanatic." Farahnaz Saleki.

FILMS
Please note that these are all well-known short stories, and some of them have been made into films (e.g. The Joy Luck Club, A Hunger Artist, My Son The Fanatic, The Fall of the House of Usher, A Clean Well-Lighted Place, Brokeback Mountain, The Lottery: also the Dahl and the DH Lawrence stories have been filmed for TV). If you can obtain these films they may well feed into your analysis, BUT you must be aware that films often make very big changes, including the ending, so make sure you know the story well before watching the film!

If your name does not appear above, please email me urgently.
More at the weekend.
J