PART ONE BRITISH SHORT STORIES George Eliot (1819—1880) The Lifted Veil Joseph Conrad (1857—1924) The Secret Sharer W. W. Jacobs (1863—1943) The Monkey's Paw Rudyard Kipling (1865—1936) Mrs. Bathurst H. G. Wells (1866—1946) The Door In the Wall John Galsworthy (1867—1933) The Japanese Quince Virginia Woolf (1882—1941) Kew Gardens James Joyce (1882—1941) Araby D. H. Lawrence (1885—1930) The Rocking Horse Winner Katherine Mansfield (1888—1923) The Garden Party PART TWO AMERICAN SHORT STORIES Washington Irving (1783—1859) Rip Van Winkle Edgar Allen Poe (1809—1849) The Masque of the Red Death Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804—1864) The Minister's Black Veil Mark Twain (1835—1910) The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Count Kate Chopin (1850—1904) The Story of an Hour Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860—1935) Yellow Wallpaper Edith Wharton (1862—1937) Roman Fever Jack London (1876—1916) To Build a Fire Sherwood Anderson (1876—1941) Death in the Woods Mary Flannery O'Connor (1925—1964) A Good Man Is Hard To Find References