Preface A Brief History of the Short Fiction The Elements of Fiction Edgar Allan Poe The Fall of the House of Usher Matk Twain The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Couty Sarah Orne Jewett A White Heron Katherine mansfield The Garden-Party Sherwood Anderson I Want to Know Why David Herbert Lawrence The Horse Dealer's Daughter Virginia Woolf Kew Gardens Isak Dinesen The Blue jar Ernest Hemingway William Faulkner A Rose for Emily Katherine Anne Porter Theft John Cheever The Enormous Radio Eudora Welty A Worn Path Doris Lessing To Room Nineteen Amy Henpel In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried