50 great American short stories

Adventure of the German student / Washington Irving Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne Ms. found in a bottle / Edgar Allan Poe Fiddler Herman Melville What was it? / Fitz-James O'Brien Luck / Mark Twain Outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte Diamond thing / Ambrose Bierce Two faces / Henry James A New England nun / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Courting of Sister Wisby / Sarah Orne Jewett The dilettante / Edith Wharton Masters of arts / O. Henry Effie Whittlesy / George Ade Mr. Dooley on the popularity of firemen / Finley Peter Dunne Bride comes to Yellow Sky / Stephen Crane

(cont.) A dead issue / Charles M. Flandrau The lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser Father is firm with his ailments / Clarence Day Death in the woods / Sherwood Anderson To build a fire / Jack London Use of force / William Carlos Williams Old folks' Christmas / Ring W. Lardner Silent snow, secret snow / Conrad Aiken By the waters of Babylon / Stephen Vincent Benet Soldiers of the republic / Dorothy Parker Mr. Preble gets rid of his wife / James Thurber Cluney McFarrar's hardtack / John McNulty Darkness of the night / Robert M. Coates The old people / William Faulkner Grapes for Monsieur Cape / Ludwig Bemelmans A man of the world / Ernest Hemingway The hour of letdown / W.E.B. White

(cont.) The resting place / Oliver La Farge

The touch of nutmeg makes it / John Collier

The harness / John Steinbeck

Friend of the family / Kay Boyle

The rumor / Erskine Caldwell

There was a young lady of Perth / William Saroyan

Downfall of fascism in Black Ankle County / Joseph Mitchell

The French scarecrow / William Maxwell

Blue-winged teal / Wallace Stegner

Archimandrite's niece / James Reid Parker

A mother's tale / James Agee

National pastime / John Cheever

Girls in their summer dresses / Irwin Shaw

Death of Shorty / Richard P. Russell

Grandma and the Hindu monk / Seymour Freedgood

Madame Zilensky and the king of Finland / Carson McCullers

Lucid eye in Silver Town / John Updike.