Since its first printing in 1954, this outstanding anthology has been the book of choice by teachers,students, and lovers of short fiction. Surveying stories by British and American writers in the first half of the twentieth century, editors Robert Pcnn Warren and Albert Erskine selected stories that broke new ground and challenged the imagination with their style, subject matter, or tone: the unforgettable, enduring works that shaped the literature of our time.
Short stories can be funny, pathetic, frightening, uplifting, nostalgic, beautiful---and it is just this variety that makes them the popular and satisfying reading they are. Here, in one volume, have been brought together 35 of the best stories of our time, in an outstanding anthology that ranges in kind from the humor of James Thurber and Ring Lardner to the irony of Hemingway and Joyce. All the modern masters are here--Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Katherine Anne Porter, Maugham, and many more. Each story is different from every other--but each bears the stamp of unmistakable greatness.
EDITORS" NOTE
IMPULSE
CONRAD AIKEN
A BOTTLE OF MILK FOR MOTHER
NELSON ALGREN
THE EGG
SHERWOOD ANDERSON
TORCH SONG
JOHN CHEEVER
WITCH"S MONEY
JOHN COLLIER
AN OUTPOST OF PROGRESS
JOSEPH CONRAD
THE THIRD PRIZE
A. E. COPPARD
THE BRIDE COMES TO YELLOW SKY
STEPHEN CRANE
OPEN WINTER
H. L. DAVIS
BARN BURNING
WILLIAM FAULKNER
WINTER DREAMS
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
SOLDIER"S HOME
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE
HENRY JAMES
THE BOARDING HOUSE
JAMES JOYCE
LIBERTY HALL
RING LARDNER
THE HORSE DEALER"S DAUGHTER
D. H. LAWRENCE
VIRGA VAY & ALLAN CEDAR
SINCLAIR LEWIS
MARRIAGE A LA MODE
KATHERINE MANSFIELD
THE OUTSTATION
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
"CRUEL AND BARBAROUS TREATMENT"
MARY MCCARTHY
THE SOJOURNER
CARSON MCCULLERS
THE OPEN WINDOW
"SAKI" (H. H. MUNRO)
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