D.H.Lawrence, "The Rocking Horse Winner" 1
Katherine Anne Porter, "Flowering Judas" (with annotations) 17
Katherine Anne Porter on the Creative Process 35
William Faulkner, "A Rose for Emily" (with questions) 39
Stidents Question William Faulkner on "A Rose for Emily" 52
Ernest Hemingway, "The Killers" 57
Katherine Mansfield, "Bliss" 69
Guy de Maupassant, "The Necklace" 83
Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren Pose Questions on the Trick Ending" 91
James Joyce, "Araby" 93
John Steinbeck, "The Chrysanthemums" 101
John Steinbeck's Revisions of "The Chrysanthemums" After the Original Publication with comment by William Osborne 112
Bernard Malamud, "The Magic Barrel" 115
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brown" 133
Edgar Allan Poe's Review of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales 146
Edgar Allan Poe, "The Fall of the House of Usher" 149
Eudora Welty, "Why I Live at the P.O." 169
Willa Cather, "Paul's Case" 185
Flannery O;Connor, "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" 207
Letters Written by Flannery O'Connor in Response to Interpretations of "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" 223
Anton Chekhov, "Gooseberries" 231
Doris Lessing, "To Room Nineteen" 243
Feminist Insights by Dorothy Brewster and Mona Knapp 278
James Baldwin, "Going to Meet the Man" 281
A Critical Review and Reassessment by James Rees Moore 299
John Updike, "A & P" 303
Other Fiction by These Writers 311
Credits 313