A brilliant, far-reaching collection of stories from Washington Irving to John Updike. The Classic Stories Edgar Allan Poe's Ms. Found in a Bottle Bret Harte's The Outcasts of Poker Flat Sherwood Anderson's Death in the Woods Stephen Vincent Benét'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