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Tables of Contents for Fifty Great Short Stories
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
The Garden Party
1
14
Katherine Mansfield
The Three-Day Blow
14
8
Ernest Hemingway
The Standard of Living
22
5
Dorothy Parker
The Saint
27
11
V.S. Pritchett
The Other Side of the Hedge
38
5
E.M. Forster
Brooksmith
43
15
Henry James
The Jockey
58
5
Carson McCullers
The Courting of Dinah Shadd
63
19
Rudyard Kipling
The Shot
82
11
Alexander Poushkin
T. Keane
Graven Image
93
4
John O'Hara
Putois
97
12
Anatole France
Frederic Chapman
Only the Dead Know Brooklyn
109
4
Thomas Wolfe
A.V. Laider
113
17
Max Beerbohm
The Lottery
130
8
Shirley Jackson
The Masque of the Red Death
138
5
Edgar Allan Poe
Looking Back
143
5
Guy de Maupassant
H.N.P. Sloman
The Man Higher Up
148
11
O. Henry
The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse
159
6
William Saroyan
The Other Two
165
17
Edith Wharton
Theft
182
6
Katherine Anne Porter
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
188
13
Flannery O'Connor
The Man of the House
201
7
Frank O'Connor
The Man Who Shot Snapping Turtles
208
11
Edmund Wilson
The Gioconda Smile
219
25
Aldous Huxley
The Curfew Tolls
244
14
Stephen Vincent Benet
Father Wakes Up the Village
258
6
Clarence Day
Ivy Day in the Committee Room
264
13
James Joyce
The Chrysanthemums
277
9
John Steinbeck
The Door
286
4
E.B. White
An Upheaval
290
6
Anton Chekhov
How Beautiful with Shoes
296
19
Wilbur Daniel Steele
A Haunted House
315
1
Virginia Woolf
The Catbird Seat
316
8
James Thurber
The Schartz-Metterklume Method
324
5
``Saki'' (H.H. Munro)
The Death of a Bachelor
329
9
Arthur Schnitzler
The Apostate
338
5
George Milburn
The Phoenix
343
3
Sylvia Townsend Warner
That Evening Sun
346
15
William Faulkner
The Law
361
4
Robert M. Coates
The Tale
365
15
Joseph Conrad
A Girl from Red Lion, P.A.
380
6
H.L. Mencken
Main Currents of American Thought
386
9
Irwin Shaw
The Ghosts
395
3
Lord Dunsany
The Minister's Black Veil
398
12
Nathaniel Hawthorne
A String of Beads
410
5
W. Somerset Maugham
The Golden Honeymoon
415
15
Ring Lardner
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
430
14
H.G. Wells
The Foreigner
444
3
Francis Steegmuller
Thrawn Janet
447
9
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Chaser
456
3
John Collier
Title Index
459
2
Author Index
461