50 great short stories - Milton Crane 1917-1985 (New York, NY Bantam Dell, 2005)
The garden party / Katherine Mansfield -- The three-day blow / Ernest Hemingway -- The standard of living / Dorothy Parker -- The Saint / V.S. Pritchett -- The other side of the hedge / E.M. Forster -- Brooksmith / Henry James -- The jockey / Carson McCullers -- The courting of Dinah Shadd / Rudyard Kipling -- The shot / Alexander Poushkin ; translated by T. Keane -- Graven Image / John O'Hara -- Putois / Anatole France -- Only the dead know Brooklyn / Thomas Wolfe -- A.V. Laider / Max Beerbohm -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- The masque of the Red Death / Edgar Allan Poe -- Looking back / Guy de Maupassant -- The man higher up / O. Henry -- The summer of the beautiful white horse / William Saroyan.
The other two / Edith Wharton -- Theft / Katherine Anne Porter -- A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- The man of the house / Frank O'Connor -- The man who shot snapping turtles / Edmund Wilson -- The Gioconda smile / Aldous Huxley -- The curfew tolls / Stephen Vincent Benet -- Father wakes up the village / Clarence Day -- Ivy Day in the committee room / James Joyce -- The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck -- The door / E.B. White -- An upheaval / Anton Chekhov -- How beautiful with shoes / Wilbur Daniel Steele -- A haunted house / Virginia Woolf -- The catbird seat / James Thurber -- The Schartz-Metterklume method / H.H. Munro -- The death of a Bachelor / Arthur Schnitzler -- The apostate / George Milburn -- The Phoenix / Sylvia Townsend Warner -- That evening sun / William Faulkner.
The law / Robert M. Coates -- The tale / Joseph Conrad -- A girl from Red Lion, PA / H.L. Mencken -- Main currents of American thought / Irwin Shaw -- The ghosts / Lord Dunsany -- The minister's black veil / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- A string of beads / W. Somerset Maugham -- The golden honeymoon / Ring Lardner -- The man who could work miracles / H.G. Wells -- The foreigner / Francis Steegmuller -- Thrawn Janet / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The chaser / John Collier.
"Original Bantam edition published August 1952"--Title page verso.
"Bantam Classic reissue September 2005"--T.p. verso.
Keywords: Shorts stories, English