Short Story Masterpieces

Since its first printing in 1954 this outstanding anthology has been the book of choice by teachers students and lovers of short fiction. Surveying stories by British and American writers in the first half of the twentieth century editors Robert Penn Warren and Albert Erskine selected stories that broke new ground and challenged the imagination with their style subject matter or tone: the unforgettable enduring works that shaped the literature of our time.<br><br>A truly exceptional collection of great stories including:<br><br><b>The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky</b> by Stephen Crane<br><b>The Horse Dealer&#146;s Daughter </b>by D. H. Lawrence<br><b>Barn Burning</b>&#160;by William Faulkner<br><b>The Sojourner </b>by Carson McCullers<br><b>The Open Window</b>&#160;by Saki<br><b>Flowering Judas </b>by Katherine Anne Porter<br><b>The Boarding House</b>&#160;by James Joyce<br><b>Soldier&#146;s Home</b>&#160;by Ernest Hemingway<br><b>The Tree of Knowledge</b>&#160;by Henry James<br><b>Why I Live at the P.O. </b>by Eudora Welty<br><br>. . . and twenty-five more of the century&#146;s best stories!