The Oxford Book of Short Stories

xiv, 547 pp. CONTENTS: The Two Drovers by Sir Walter Scott; The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne; The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe; The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain; The Iliad of Sandy Bar by Bret Harte; The Coup de Grace by Ambrose Bierce; Paste by Henry James; Thrawn Janet by Robert Louis Stevenson; The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad; The Record of Badalia Herodsfoot by Rudyard Kipling; Telemachus, Friend by O. Henry; Sredni Vashtar by Hector Hugo Munro (Saki); The Open Boat by Stephen Crane; An Ideal Craftsman by Walter De La Mare; An Official Position by W. Somerset Maugham; I Want to Know Why by Sherwood Anderson; The Field of Mustard by A.E. Coppard; Grace by James Joyce; The Rocking-Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence; Who Dealt' by Ring Lardner; The Woman at the Store by Katherine Mansfield; Flowering Judas by Katherine Anne Porter; The Tent by Liam O'Flaherty; Dry September by William Faulkner; Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway; The Demon Lover by Elizabeth Bowen; Many Are Disappointed by V.S. Pritchett; Sinners by Sean O'Faolain; Guests of the Nation by Frank O'Connor; The Runaway by Morley Callaghan; Never by H.E. Bates; A Horse and Two Goats by R.K. Narayan; A Visit of Charity by Eudora Welty; Various Temptations by William Sansom; My Vocation by Mary Lavin; Five-Twenty by Patrick White; Goodbye, My Brother by John Cheever; Mrs Fortescue by Doris Lessing; Parker's Back by Flannery O'Connor; Going Home by William Trevor; Lifeguard by John Updike; References and Acknowledgments; Index of Authors.