Contains:
A tooth for Paul Revere / Stephen Vincent Benét --
The man who missed the bus / Stella Benson --
The happy autumn fields / Elizabeth Bowen --
They weren't going to die / Kay Boyle --
The hands of Mr. Ottermole / Thomas Burke --
Paul's case / Willa Cather --
The new villa / Anton Chekhov --
Hook / Walter Van Tilburg Clark --
The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad --
The blue hotel / Stephen Crane --
Dry September / William Faulkner --
Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerlad --
The captive / Caroline Gordon --
The second death / Graham Greene --
The snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway --
The bench of desolation / Henry James --
Clay / James Joyce --
An old page / Franz Kafka --
Mario and the magician / Thomas Mann --
Bliss / Katherine Mansfield --
The outstation / William Somerset Maugham --
A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor --
Mariá Concepción / Katherine Anne Porter --
The valiant woman / James F. Powers --
The passion of Lance Corporal Hawkins / Irwin Shaw --
Fight number twenty-five / Jesse Stuart --
The fancy woman / Peter Taylor --
The singers / Ivan Turgenev --
First love / Eudora Welty --
The second tree from the corner / E.B. White.