Gathers classic short stories by such authors as Washington Irving, Edgar Allen Poe, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, Henry James, O. Henry, Jack London, Dorothy Parker, James Agee, and John Updike. A brilliant, far-reaching collection of stories from Washington Irving to John Updike. The Classic Stories Edgar Allan Poe's Ms. Found in a BottleBret Harte's The Outcasts of Poker FlatSherwood Anderson's Death in the Woods Stephen Vincent Bent's By the Waters of Babylon The Great Writers Melville James Dreiser Faulkner Hemingway SteinbeckMcCullers The Little-Known Masterpieces Edith Wharton's The DilettanteFinley Peter Dunne's Mr. Dooley on the Popularity of FiremanCharles M. Flandrau's A Dead IssueJames Reid Parker's The Archimandrite's Niece