Fifty Great American Short Stories

A brilliant, far-reaching collection of stories from Washington Irving to John Updike.
The Classic Stories
Edgar Allan Poe s "Ms. Found in a Bottle," Bret Harte s "The Outcasts of Poker Flat," Sherwood Anderson s "Death in the Woods," Stephen Vincent Benet s "By the Waters of Babylon"
The Great Writers
Melville, James, Dreiser, Faulkner, Hemingway, Steinbeck, McCullers
The Little-Known Masterpieces
Edith Wharton s "The Dilettante," Finley Peter Dunne s "Mr. Dooley on the Popularity of Fireman," Charles M. Flandrau s "A Dead Issue," James Reid Parker s "The Archimandrite's Niece""