Table of Contents
Notes from underground / Fyodor Dostoevsky -- The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy -- The pupil / Henry James -- The Blue Hotel / Stephen Crane -- The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad -- The metamorphosis / Franz Kafka -- The ballad of the sad cafâe / Carson McCullers -- The displaced person / Flannery O'Connor -- Seize the day / Saul Bellow -- Sonny's blues / James Baldwin -- Matryona's house / Alexander Solzhenitsyn -- No one writes to the colonel / Gabriel Garcia Marquez.