Fifty Great American Short Stories

A brilliant, far-reaching collection of stories from Washington Irving to John Updike.

The Classic StoriesEdgar 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 Benét’s By the Waters of Babylon

The Great WritersMelville, James, Dreiser, Faulkner, Hemingway, Steinbeck, McCullers

The Little-Known MasterpiecesEdith 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