Title: Reading modern fiction -- Fourth Edition
First published: 1952
Description: Contains:
A tooth for Paul Revere / Stephen Vincent Benét --	
The man who missed the bus / Stella Benson --	
The happy autumn fields / Elizabeth Bowen --	
They weren't going to die / Kay Boyle --	
The hands of Mr. Ottermole / Thomas Burke --	
Paul's case / Willa Cather --	
The new villa / Anton Chekhov --	
Hook / Walter Van Tilburg Clark --	
The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad --	
The blue hotel / Stephen Crane --	
Dry September / William Faulkner --	
Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerlad --	
The captive / Caroline Gordon --	
The second death / Graham Greene --	
The snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway --	
The bench of desolation / Henry James --	
[Clay](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18179205W) / James Joyce --	
An old page / Franz Kafka --	
Mario and the magician / Thomas Mann --	
Bliss / Katherine Mansfield --	
The outstation / William Somerset Maugham --	
A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor --	
Mariá Concepción / Katherine Anne Porter --	
The valiant woman / James F. Powers --	
The passion of Lance Corporal Hawkins / Irwin Shaw --	
Fight number twenty-five / Jesse Stuart --	
The fancy woman / Peter Taylor --	
The singers / Ivan Turgenev --	
First love / Eudora Welty --	
The second tree from the corner / E.B. White.
Subjects: Short stories, Pottery, Art pottery, Modern Art, Halloween, The Bohemian Girl
Places: Joe's house, bakery
People: Maria, Joe, Michael Balfe