An affordable compilation of 14 of the best American short stories features tales by Hawthorne, Twain, Poe, Fitzgerald, Wharton, and others. Contents include "The Enormous Radio" by John Cheever, William Faulkner's "Dry September," Katherine Anne Porter's "He," Ring Lardner's "The Golden Honeymoon,"[...]
Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, and Ellen Glasgow are among the featured authors in this splendid anthology. The tales include Joyce Carol Oates' "Heat," Flannery O'Connor's "The Life You Save May Be Your Own," Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' "Gal Young 'Un," and "Why I Live at the P.O." by Eudora Welty.[...]