A collection of fifty stories spanning the years 1915 to 1965.

Elsie Singmaster -- The Survivors / Theodore Dreiser -- The Lost Phoebe / Ring W. Lardner -- The Golden Honeymoon / Sherwood Anderson -- I'm A Fool / Ernest Hemingway -- My Old Man / Dorothy Parker -- A Telephone Call / Willa CaTher -- Double Birthday / Morley Callaghan -- The Faithful Wife / William March -- The Little Wife / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Babylon Revisited / Wilbur Daniel Steele -- How Beautiful with Shoes / William Saroyan -- Resurrection of a Life / Thomas Wolfe -- Only The Dead Know Brooklyn / Tess Slesinger -- A Life in The Day of A Writer / Lovell Thompson -- The Iron City / Pietro Di Donato -- Christ In concrete / John Steinbeck -- The ChrysanThemums / Richard Wright -- Bright and Morning Star / William Faulkner -- Hand Upon The Waters / Robert M. Coates -- The Net / Kay Boyle -- Nothing Ever Breaks Except The Heart / Irwin Shaw -- Search Through The Streets of The City / Nancy Hale -- Who Lived and Died Believing / Paul Horgan -- The Peach Stone / Jesse Stuart -- Dawn of Remembered Spring / James Thurber -- The Catbird Seat / Lionel Trilling -- Of This Time, of That Place / Walter Van Tilburg Clark -- The Wind and The Snow of Winter / John Cheever -- The Enormous Radio / Jean Stafford -- Children Are Bored on Sunday / George P. Elliott -- The NRACP / Hortense Calisher -- In Greenwich There Are Many Gravelled Walks / Ray Bradbury -- The OTher Foot / Tennessee Williams -- Three Players of a Summer Game / James Agee -- A MoTher's Tale / Bernard Malamud -- The Magic Barrel / Flannery O'Connor -- A Circle in The Fire / Augusta Wallace Lyons -- The First Flower / Philip Roth -- The Contest for Aaron Gold / Shirley Jackson -- One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts / Fraank Butler -- To The Wilderness I Wander / Lawrence Sargent Hall -- The Ledge / James Baldwin -- This Morning, This Evening, so Soon / Tillie Olsen -- Tell Me A Riddle / George Garrett -- The Old Army Game / John Updike -- Pigeon FeaThers / H.W. Blattner -- Sound of a Drunken Drummer / John Stewart Carter -- The Keyhole Eye / W .