The Oxford Book of Short Stories / : Chosen by V.s. Pritchett.

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Includes index.
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 (Saki) -- 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 / Liam 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 Sansom -- 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.

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