CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgcments
Washington Irving (1783-1859)
THB LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
Nathaniel Hawtharne (1804-64)
YOUNG GOODMAN BXOWN
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49)
THB PALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
Herman Meloille (1819-91)
BAITLBBY
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
IHB MAN THAT CORRUPTED HADLEYBUR
Francis Bret Harte (1836-1902)
THE OUT CASTS OF POKER FLAT
Ambrose Bierce (1842-?I914)
ONE OF THE MISSING
Henry ]ames (1843-1916)
THE REAL THINO
0. Henry (1862-1910)
AN UNPINISHBD STORY
Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
THB BRIDE COMES TO YELLOW SKY
Willa Cather (1873-1947)
NEGHBOR XOSICKY
Iack London (1876-1916)
Sherwood Anderson (1876-I941)
DIATH IN THE WOODS
CONTBNTS
Ring Lardner (1885-1933)
WHO DEALT?
Katherine Anne Porter (b 1890)
FLOWERING JUDAS
F. SCott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
THE RICH BOY
William Paulkner (1897-1962)
DBLTA AUTUMN
'Emest Hemingway (1898-1961)
THB BATTLEX
Berfwd Malamud (b 1914)
THE JEWEIRD
Traman Capote (b. 1925)
CHILDERN ON THE IR BIRTHDATS
John Updike (b. 1932)
WIFE-WOOING