Contents:

• The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield
• The Three-Day Blow by Ernest Hemingway
• The Standard of Living by Dorothy Parker
• The Saint by V. S. Pritchett
• The Other Side of the Hedge by E. M. Forster
• Brooksmith by Henry James
• The Jockey by Carson McCullers
• The Courting of Dinah Shadd by Rudyard Kipling
• The Shot by Alexander Poushkin
• Graven Image by John O'Hara
• Putois by Anatole France
• Only the Dead Know Brooklyn by Thomas Wolfe
• A.V. Laider by Max Beerbohm
• The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
• The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
• Looking Back by Guy de Maupassant
• The Man Higher Up by O. Henry
• The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse by William Saroyan
• The Other Two by Edith Wharton
• Theft by Katherine Anne Porter
• For Esmé, with Love and Squalor by J. D. Salinger
• The Man of the House by Frank O'Connor
• The Man Who Shot Snapping Turtles by Edmund Wilson
• The Gioconda Smile by Aldous Huxley
• The Curfew Tolls by Stephen Vincent Benét
• Father Wakes up the Village by Clarence Day
• Ivy Day in the Committee Room by James Joyce
• The Chrysanthemums by John Steinbeck
• The Door by E. B. White
• An Upheaval by Anton Chekhov
• How Beautiful with Shoes by Wilbur Daniel Steele
• A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf
• The Catbird Seat by James Thurber
• The Schartz-Metterklume Method by Saki
• The Death of a Bachelor by Arthur Schnitzler
• The Apostate by George Milburn
• The Phoenix by Sylvia Townsend Warner
• That Evening Sun by William Faulkner
• The Law by Robert M. Coates
• The Tale by Joseph Conrad
• A Girl from Red Lion, P.A. by H. L. Mencken
• Main Currents of American Thought by Irwin Shaw
• The Ghosts by Lord Dunsany
• The Minister's Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• A String of Beads by W. Somerset Maugham
• The Golden Honeymoon by Ring Lardner
• The Man Who Could Work Miracles by H. G. Wells
• The Foreigner by Francis Steegmuller
• Thrawn Janet by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Chaser by John Collier
• Title Index
• Author Index