<b>A brilliant far-reaching collection of stories from Washington Irving to John Updike.</b><br> <b><br> The Classic Stories<br> </b>Edgar Allan Poe's <i>Ms. Found in a Bottle</i> <br>Bret Harte's <i>The Outcasts of Poker Flat</i> <br>Sherwood Anderson's <i>Death in the Woods</i><br> Stephen Vincent Benét's <i>By the Waters of Babylon</i><b> <p/> The Great Writers<br> </b>Melville <br>James <br>Dreiser <br>Faulkner <br>Hemingway <br>Steinbeck<br>McCullers <p/><b> The Little-Known Masterpieces<br> </b>Edith Wharton's <i>The Dilettante<br></i>Finley Peter Dunne's <i>Mr. Dooley on the Popularity of Fireman<br></i>Charles M. Flandrau's <i>A Dead Issue<br></i>James Reid Parker's <i>The Archimandrite's Niece</i>