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: by Stephen Crane by D. H. Lawrence by William Faulkner by Carson McCullers by Saki by Katherine Anne Porter by James Joyce by Ernest Hemingway by Henry James by Eudora Welty . . . and twenty-five more of the century’s best stories!