A superlative collection of thirty-six unforgettable stories by these world famous authors....

Contents:

• Impulse by Conrad Aiken
• A Bottle of Milk for Mother by Nelson Algren
• The Egg by Sherwood Anderson
• Torch Song by John Cheever
• Witch's Money by John Collier
• An Outpost of Progress by Joseph Conrad
• The Third Prize by A.E. Coppard
• The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane
• Open Winter by H.L. Davis
• Barn Burning by William Faulkner
• Winter Dreams by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Soldier's Home by Ernest Hemingway
• The Tree of Knowledge by Henry James
• The Boarding House by James Joyce
• Liberty Hall by Ring Lardner
• The Horse Dealer's Daughter by D.H. Lawrence
• Virga Vay and Allan Cedar by Sinclair Lewis
• Marriage á la Mode by Katherine Mansfield
• The Outstation by W. Somerset Maugham
• "Cruel and Barbarous Treatment" by Mary McCarthy
• Sojourner by Carson McCullers
• The Open Window by "Saki" ( H.H. Munro)
• My Oedipus Complex by Frank O'Connor
• Innocence by Sean O'Faolain
• The Nightingales Sing by Elizabeth Parsons
• Flowering Judas by Katherine Anne Porter
• The Valiant Woman by J.F. Powers
• Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut by J.D. Salinger
• The Eighty-Yard Run by Irwin Shaw
• A Country Love Story by Jean Stafford
• Flight by John Steinbeck
• A Red-Letter Day by Elizabeth Taylor
• A Spinster's Tale by Peter Taylor
• You Could Look It Up by James Thurber
• Why I Live at the P.O. by Eudora Welty
• The Use of Force by William Carlos Williams.