Short Story Masterpieces

With works by Henry James, Steinbeck, Salinger, John Cheever, James Joyce, Eudora Welty and many others, this outstanding collection of 35 American and British short pieces of fiction from the first half of the 20th century is one of the bestselling collections of our time.

A superlative collection of thirty-six unforgettable stories:

• 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