Contents

• A lodging for the night /Robert Louis Stevenson
• Sophistication /Sherwood Anderson
• Youth /Joseph Conrad
• The doll’s house /Katherine Mansfield
• The fastest runner on Sixty-first Street /James T. Farrell - -Life for a life /Alan Paton
• The boarding house / James Joyce
• Petrified man /Eudora Welty
• The chrysanthemums /John Steinbeck
• Look at all those roses /Elizabeth Bowen
• The blind man /D.H. Lawrence
• Disorder and early sorrow /Thomas Mann
• The jockey /Carson McCullers
• Color of darkness / James Purdy
• The darling /Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - -Brooksmith /Henry James
• A good man is hard to find /Flannery O’Connor
• Indian camp /Ernest Hemingway
• The beggar on the Dublin Bridge /Ray Bradbury
• May day /F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The gentleman from San Francisco /Ivan Alexeyevich Bunin
• The catbird seat /James Thurber
• Some like them cold /Ring Lardner
• The story-teller /Saki (H.H. Munro)
• The chaser /John Collier
• The treasure / W. Somerset Maugham
• A.V. Laider /Max Beerbohm
• The lady maid’s bell /Edith Wharton
• Adventure of the German student /Washington Irving
• The specialty of the house /Stanley Ellin
• On the river /Guy de Maupassant
• The facts in the case of M. Valdemar / Edgar Allan Poe
• An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce
• The lottery /Shirley Jackson
• The celestial omnibus /E.M. Forster
• In the penal colony /Franz Kafka
• Among the Dangs /George P. Elliott
• A mother’s tale /James Agee