Since its first printing in 1954, this outstanding anthology has been the book of choice by teachers, students, and lovers of short fiction. Surveying stories by British and American writers in the first half of the twentieth century, editors Robert Penn Warren and Albert Erskine selected stories that broke new ground and challenged the imagination with their style, subject matter, or tone: the unforgettable, enduring works that shaped the literature of our time.
A truly exceptional collection of great stories, including:
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
by Stephen Crane
The Horse Dealer’s Daughter
by D. H. Lawrence
Barn Burning
by William Faulkner
The Sojourner
by Carson McCullers
The Open Window
by Saki
Flowering Judas
by Katherine Anne Porter
The Boarding House
by James Joyce
Soldier’s Home
by Ernest Hemingway
The Tree of Knowledge
by Henry James
Why I Live at the P.O.
by Eudora Welty
. . . and twenty-five more of the century’s best stories!