The garden party—katherine mansfield ................ 1
The three-day blow—ernest hemingway ................ 14
The standard of living—dorothy parker ............... 22
The saint—v. S. Pritchett ............................... 27
The other side of the hedge—e. M. Forster ........... 38
Brooksmith—henry james ................................... 43
The jockey—carson mccullers ........................... 58
The courting of dinah shadd—rudyard kipling ......... 63
The shot—alexander poushkin (translated by t. Keane) 82
Graven image—john o’hara ................................ 93
Putois—anatole france (translated by frederic chapman) 97
Only the dead know brooklyn—thomas wolfe ........... 109
A. V. Laider—max beerbohm ............................... 113
The lottery—shirley jackson ........................... 130
The masque of the red death—edgar allan poe ......... 138
Looking back—guy de maupassant (translated by h. N. P. Sloman) 143
The man higher up—o. Henry .............................. 148
The summer of the beautiful white horse—william saroyan 159
The other two—edith wharton ............................. 165
Theft—katherine anne porter ............................. 182
For esmé—with love and squalor—j. D. Salinger ........ 188
The man of the house—frank o’connor ................... 206
The man who shot snapping turtles—edmund wilson ..... 214
The gioconda smile—aldous huxley ........................ 224
The curfew tolls—stephen vincent benét ................ 250

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