SHORT STORIES


SHORT STORIES For B.A/B.Sc. 
Here are B.A/B.Sc. English Notes for short stories Summary reference context question answers characters sketch...

1- The Killers

The Killers is written by Ernest Hemingway Summary and more detail, questions you can click the visit button below...

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2- Rappaccini’s Daughter

Rappaccini’s Daughter is written by Nathaniel Hawthorne for more details and questions you can click on the visit button below...

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3- The New Constitution

The New Constitution is written by Saadat Hasan Manto for more details and questions you can click the visit button below...

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4- Breakfast

Breakfast is written by John Steinbeck for more details and questions you can click the visit button below...

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5- Take Pity

Take Pity is written by Bernard Malamud for more details and questions you can click the visit button below...

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6- The Happy Prince

The Happy Prince is written by Oscar Wilde for more details and questions you can click the visit button below...

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7- Araby

Araby is written by James Joyce for more details and questions you can click on the visit button below...

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8- The Tell Tale Heart

The Tell Tale Heart is written by Edger Allen Poe for more details and questions you can click the visit button below...

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9- The Necklace

The Necklace is written by Guy de Maupassant for more details and questions you can click the visit button below...

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10- The Duchess And The Jeweler

The Dutchess and the Jeweler is written by Virginia Woolf for more details and questions you can click the visit button below...

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11- A Conversation With My Father

A Conversation With My Father is Written By Grace Paley for more details and questions you can click the visit button below

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12- The Fly

The Fly is written by Katherine Mansfield for more details and questions you can click the visit button below

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13- The Little Willow

The Fly by Francis Tower for more details and questions you can click the visit button below.....

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14- Passion in the Desert

A Passion in the Desert by Honore de Balzac for more details, Summary and questions you can click the visit button below.....

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