Some random observations about this list: If Henry James ("The Turns of the Screw") and Stephen King ("The Body") can both make this cut with novellas, then shouldn't Charles Dickens with "A Christmas Carol" and Robert Louis Stevenson with "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"? Talk about iconic. And I'd argue for either "A Sound of Thunder" or "The Pedestrian" being more iconic and widely anthologized Ray Bradbury short stories.
On Thursday, August 13, 2020, 2:22:22 PM EDT, Martha Sherwood <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
I took a look at the list out of curiosity and it really ought to be titled
"works of short fiction which, according to current aesthetics and
prevalent academic morality, American high school students ought to read."
Short on works from other parts of the English speaking world, especially
anglophone literature. What's Chekhov doing on a list of works in English?
Out of sheer cussedness I might suggest "Those Extraordinary twins"
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3185/3185-h/3185-h.htm though that's really
a novella and hard to follow if you haven't read Puddnhead Wilson.
Martha Sherwood
On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 8:15 AM Mac Donnell Rare Books <
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> Not a bad list, but the problem with lists is that they're always too
> short. It needs more Flannery O'Connor. Maybe another Bradbury.
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> Yours is a good choice for MT. I'd say "The Story of the Bad Little Boy"
> and its explosive companion piece, "The Story of the Good Little Boy."
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> Subject: Most "Iconic" MT short story??
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> >Sadly this author overlooked our beloved hero, but she also forgot about
> Hawthorne ("Young Goodman Brown"); Kurt Vonnegut ("Harrison Bergeron"); and
> others I'm sure/ But my question" which MT short story should be on this
> list? My answer is revealed in the comments at the bottom...
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> >Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” (1890) I will leave
> it to Kurt Vonnegut, who famously wrote, “I consider anybody a twerp who
> hasn’t read the greatest American short story, which is “Occurrence at Owl
> Creek Bridge,” by Ambrose Bierce.It isn’t remotely political. It is a
> flawless example of American genius, like “Sophisticated Lady” by Duke
> Ellington or the ...
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