Introduction
The Two Drovers, Sir Walter Scott
The Birthmark, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, Mark Twain
The Iliad of Sandy Bar, Bret Harte
The Coupe de Grace, Ambrose Bierce
Paste, Henry James
Thrawn Janet, Robert Louis Stevenson
The Secret Sharer, Joseph Conrad
The Record of Badalia Herodsfoot, Rudyard Kipling
Telemachus, Friend, O. Henry
Sredni Vashtar, Hector Hugh Munro ('Saki')
The Open Boat, Stephen Crane
An Ideal Craftsman, Walter de la Mare
An Official Position, W. Somerset Maugham
I Want to Know Why, Sherwood Anderson
The Field of Mustard, A.E. Coppard
Grace, James Joyce
The Rocking-Horse Winner, D.H. Lawrence
Who Dealt?, Ring Lardner
The Woman at the Store, Katherine Mansfield
Flowering Judas, Katherine Anne Porter
The Tent, Liam O'Flaherty
Dry September, William Faulkner
Hills Like White Elephants, Ernest Hemingway
The Demon Lover, Elizabeth Bowen
Many Are Disappointed, V.S. Pritchett
Sinners, Sean O'Faolain
Guests of the Nation, Frank O'Connor
The Runaway, Morley Callaghan
Never, H.E. Bates
A Horse and Two Goats, R.K. Narayan
A Visit of Charity, Eudora Welty
Various Temptations, William Sansom
My Vocation, Mary Lavin
Five-Twenty, Patrick White
Goodbye, My Brother, John Cheever
Mrs Fortescue, Doris Lessing
Parker's Back, Flannery O'Connor
Going Home, William Trevor
Lifeguard, John Updike
References and Acknowledgements
Index of Authors
