Introduction
Section One Early
Charles Dickens The Signal-Man
George Eliot The Lifted Veil
Rudyard Kipling The Man who would be King
Thomas Hardy The Son's Veto
The Three Strangers
Joseph Conrad The Secret Sharer
Section Two Modern
James Joyce Araby
The Dead
D. H. Lawrence Rocking-Horse Winner
The Horse Dealer's Daughter
Katherine Mansfield The Garden-Party
Virginia Woolf Kew Gardens
The Mark on the Wall
Robert Louis Stevenson Markheim
W. Somerset Maugham The Outstation
H. G. Wells The Door in the Wall
Section Three Contemporary
Said The Open Window
The Interlopers
Doris Lessing To Room Nineteen
Elizabeth Bowen The Demon Lover
Graham Greene The Destructors
Bibliography