The short story: fiction in transition. [electronic resource] Edited by J. Chesley Taylor.

Nathaniel Hawthorne / The artist of the beautiful -- Edgar Allan Poe / The cask of Amontillado -- Herman Melville / Bartleby the scrivener: A tale of Wall Street -- Fyodor Dostoevsky / The crocodile -- Anton Chekhov / On official business -- Guy De Maupassant / Minuet -- Giovanni Verga / The she-wolf -- Henry James / The middle years -- Joseph Conrad / Il Conde -- J.F. Powers / Lions, harts, leaping does -- Stephen Crane / The blue hotel -- Maxim Gorky / Twenty-six men and a girl -- James Joyce / Counterparts -- Italo Svevo / Generous wine -- Dennis Lynds / A blue blonde in the sky over Pennsylvania -- John Galsworthy / The Japanese quince -- Franz Kafka / In the penal colony -- F. Scott Fitzgerald / The diamond as big as the Ritz -- Luigi Pirandello / In the abyss -- Katherine Mansfield / The fly -- Sherwood Anderson / Death in the woods -- William Faulkner / A rose for Emily -- Ernest Hemingway / The short happy life of Francis Macomber -- Frank Rooney / Cyclists' raid -- Flannery O'Connor / A good man is hard to find -- James Thurber / The unicorn in the garden -- Shirley Jackson / The witch -- Carson McCullers / Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland -- Philip Roth / The conversion of the Jews -- Jorge Luis Borges / Death and the compass -- Julio Cortazar / Bestiary -- Paul Bowles / The scorpion -- Ilse Aichinger / The bound man -- Ted Hughes / Snow -- Robert Creeley / The boat -- Douglas Woolf / The flyman -- Michael Rumaker / The pipe -- Alain ARobbe-Grillet / The secret room.