31 stories.
By: Edited by Michael R. Booth [and] Clinton S. Burhans, Jr.
Contributors: Burhans, Clinton S., joint ed.
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Published: 1960
Place of publication: Englewood Cliffs, N.J
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 364
Subjects: Short stories.
Table of contents: title: Mr. Arcularis / Conrad Aiken -- Death in the woods / Sherwood Anderson -- The pedestrian / Ray Bradbury -- Christmas is a sad season for the poor / John Cheever -- Bottle party / John Collier -- The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad -- The open boat / Stephen Crane -- Mule in the yard / William Faulkner -- The old people / William Faulkner -- The lost decade / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The celestial omnibus / E. M. Forester -- The basement room / Graham Greene -- Cat in the rain / Ernest Hemingway -- Araby / James Joyce -- A little cloud / James Joyce -- Shades of spring / D. H. Lawrence -- The garden party / Katherine Mansfield -- The daughters of the late colonel / Katherine Mansfield -- Theft / Katherine Anne Porter -- The saint / V. S. Pritchett -- One’s a heifer / Sinclair Ross -- The summer of the beautiful white horse / William Saroyan -- How beautiful with shoes / Wilbur Daniel Steele -- The leader of the people / John Steinbeck -- A story / Dylan Thomas -- The greatest man in the world / James Thurber -- Of this time, of that place / Lionel Trilling -- Livvie / Eudora Welty -- Totentanz / Angus Wilson -- Mrs. Golightly and the first convention / Ethel Wilson -- The new dress / Virginia Woolf.