The Oxford book of Latin American short stories

"How the men were parted from the women" / Fray Ramón Pané.

"A Maiden's story" / Popol Vuh.

"Tocay Capac, the first Inca" / Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala.

"Plague of ants" / Fray Bartolomé de las casas.

"The story of Pedro Serrano" / Garcilaso de la Vega, el Inca.

"The adventurer who pretended that he was a bishop" / Gaspar de Villarroel.

"Amorous and military adventures" / Catalina de Erauso ("The lieutenant nun").

"A deal with Juana Garcia" / Juan Rodríguez Freyle.

"The slaughter house" / Esteban Echeverría.

"The tiger of the plains" / Domingo Faustino Sarmiento.

"He who listens may hear-to his regret: confidence of a confidence" / Juana Manuela Gorriti.

"Fray Gómez's scorpion".

"Where and how the devil lost his poncho" / Ricardo Palma.

"Midnight mass" / Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis.

"The death of the Empress of China" / Rubén Darío.

"Yzur" / Leopoldo Lugones.

"The decapitated chicken" / Horacio Quiroga.

"The baby in pink Buckram" / João do Rio (Paulo Barreto).

"The man who resembled a horse" / Rafael Arévalo Martínez.

"The braider" / Ricardo Güiraldes.

"The man who knew Javanese" / Alfonso Henriques de Lima Barreto.

"Peace on high" / Rómulo Gallegos.

"The Christmas turkey" / Mário de Andrade.

"The daisy doll" / Felisberto Hernández.

"The photograph" / Enrique Amorim.

"The clearing" / Luisa Mercedes Levinson.

"The garden of forking paths" / Jorge Luis Borges.

"Journey back to the source" / Alejo Carpentier.

"The tree" / María Luisa Bombal.

"The legend of 'El Cadejo'" / Miguel Angel Asturias. "Encarnacion Mendoza's Christmas Eve" / Juan Bosch.

"The third bank of the river" / João Guimarães Rosa.

"The image of misfortune" / Juan Carlos Onetti.

"Tell them not to kill me" / Juan Rulfo.

"Hahn's pentagon" / Osman Lins.

"The switchman" / Juan José Arreola.

"The featherless buzzards" / Julio Ramón Ribeyro.

"Meat" / Virgilio Piñera.

"Unborn" / Augusto Roa Bastos.

"The night face up" / Julio Cortázar.

"Cooking lesson" / Rosario Castellanos.

"The doll queen" / Carlos Fuentes.

"The walk" / José Donoso.

"Balthazar's marvelous afternoon" / Gabriel García Márquez.

"The challenge" / Mario Vargas Llosa.

"The crime of the mathematics professor" / Clarice Lispector.

"Buried statues" / Antonio Benítez Rojo.

"A woman's back" / José Balza.

"The warmth of things" / Nélida Piñón.

"Penelope" / Dalton Trevisan.

"The threshold" / Christina Peri Rossi.

"The parade ends" / Reinaldo Arenas.

"When women love men" / Rosario Ferré.