Introduction to Literary Context: American Short Fiction highlights significant American short fiction that is studied by high school and undergraduate college students. This volume includes discussion of 39 works of short fiction, including: Bluebeard's Egg (Margaret Atwood); Everything that Rises Must Converge (Flannery O'Connor); Girl (Jamaica Kincaid); Go Down, Moses (William Faulkner); I Stand Here Ironing (Tillie Olson); Runaway (Alice Munro); Sonny's Blues (James Baldwin); Sweat (Zora Neale Hurston); The Haunting of Hill House (Shirley Jackson); The Story of an Hour (Kate Chopin); The Swimmer (John Cheever); To Build a Fire (Jack London); and You're Ugly, Too (Lorrie Moore).