Fifty Great American Short Stories (Hors Catalogue)

A brilliant, far-reaching collection of stories from Washington Irving to John Updike.

The Classic Stories
Edgar Allan Poe's Ms. Found in a Bottle
Bret Harte's The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Sherwood Anderson's Death in the Woods
Stephen Vincent Benét's By the Waters of Babylon

The Great Writers
Melville
James
Dreiser
Faulkner
Hemingway
Steinbeck
McCullers

The Little-Known Masterpieces
Edith Wharton's The Dilettante
Finley Peter Dunne's Mr. Dooley on the Popularity of Fireman
Charles M. Flandrau's A Dead Issue
James Reid Parker's The Archimandrite's Niece