The Oxford book of short stories
by Welty, Eudora, Twain, Mark, James, Henry, Bates, H. E., (Herbert Ernest), Bierce, Ambrose, Stevenson, Robert Louis, Henry, O., White, Patrick, Updike, John, Crane, Stephen, O'Connor, Frank, De la Mare, Walter, Lardner, Ring, Pritchett, V. S., (Victor Sawdon), Scott, Walter, Hawthorne, Nathaniel, Poe, Edgar Allan, Harte, Bret, Conrad, Joseph, Kipling, Rudyard, Saki, Maugham, W. Somerset, (William Somerset), Anderson, Sherwood, Coppard, A. E., (Alfred Edgar), Joyce, James, Mansfield, Katherine, Porter, Katherine Anne, O'Flaherty, Liam, Faulkner, William, Hemingway, Ernest, Bowen, Elizabeth, O'Faoláin, Seán, Callaghan, Morley, Narayan, R. K., Sansom, William, Lavin, Mary, Cheever, John, Lessing, Doris, O'Connor, Flannery, Trevor, William
Gathers stories from the U.S., England, and Ireland by such noted writers as Hawthorne, Poe, James, Conrad, Joyce, O'Flaherty, Lessing, and Updike.