One hundred and two of the most important authors of short stories in three volumes.
General Note
Includes index.
Content Note
Flannery O'Connor, Frank O'Connor, Sean O'Faolain, Liam O'Flaherty, Tillie Olsen, Dorothy Parker, S. J. Perelman, Edgar Allan Poe, Katherine Anne Porter, J. F. Powers, V. S. Pritchett, James Purdy, Saki, J. D. Salinger, William Saroyan, Alan Sillitoe, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Muriel Spark, John Stinebeck, Robert Louis Stevenson, James Thurber, Leo Tolstoy, William Trevor, Ivan Turgenev, Mark Twain, John Updike, Alice Walker, Eudora Welty, Edith Wharton, Tennessee Williams, Tobias Wolff, Virginia Woolf, Richard Wright.