The Two Drovers / Sir Walter Scott -- The Birthmark / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain -- The Iliad of Sandy Bar / Bret Harte -- The Coup de Grace / Ambrose Bierce -- Paste / Henry James -- Thrawn Janet / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The Secret Sharer / Joseph Conrad -- The Record of Badalia Herodsfoot / Rudyard Kipling -- Telemachus, Friend / O. Henry -- Sredni Vashtar / Hector Hugh Munro -- The Open Boat / Stephen Crane -- An Ideal Craftsman / Walter De La Mare -- An Official Position / W. Somerset Maugham -- I Want To Know Why / Sherwood Anderson -- The Field of Mustard / A.E. Coppard -- Grace / James Joyce -- The Rocking-Horse Winner / D.H. Lawrence -- Who Dealt? / Ring Lardner -- The Woman at the Store / Katherine Mansfield -- Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter -- The Tent / Llam O'Flaherty -- Dry September / William Faulkner -- Hills Like White Elephants / Ernest Hemingway -- The Demon Lover / Elizabeth Bowen -- Many Are Disappointed / V.S. Pritchett -- Sinners / Sean O'Faolain -- Guests of the Nation / Frank O'Connor -- The Runaway / Morley Callaghan -- Never / H.E. Bates -- A Horse and Two Goats / R.K. Narayan -- A Visit of Charity / Eudora Welty -- Various Temptations / William Sonsom -- My Vocation / Mary Lavin -- Five-Twenty / Patrick White -- Goodbye, My Brother / John Cheever -- Mrs. Fortescue / Doris Lessing -- Parker's Back / Flannery O'Connor -- Going Home / William Trevor -- Lifeguard / John Updike.