Achievements in Fiction
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Achievements in Fiction

1971
Short storiesMothers and daughtersFictionChildren's fictionAdventure and adventurersMarriageshort storysextonsclergyabbeysAmerican fictionAmerican horror tales

The lament ; A trifling occurrence ; The lady with the dog ; Ward no. 6 / Anton Chekhov -- The demon lover ; The Tommy Crans ; All saints ; The shadowy third / Elizabeth Bowen -- Four meetings ; The beast in the jungle ; The real thing ; The pupil / Henry James -- The miser ; Eternal triangle ; Masculine protest ; The holy door / Frank O'Connor -- The blind man ; The rocking-horse winner ; The woman who rode away / D.H. Lawrence -- The maid's shoes ; Angel Levine ; Naked nude ; The prison / Bernard Malamud -- Caleb and me ; Previous condition ; The rockpile / James Baldwin -- [Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- [The minister's black veil](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455342W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- My landlady / Guy de Maupassant -- [The boarding house](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15073259W) / James Joyce -- The circular ruins / Jorge Luis Borges -- The artificial nigger / Flannery O'Connor -- The engagement party / Robert Boles.

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