Fireside Reader: A Treasury of Outstanding Short Stories

Included:
The bottle imp by Robert Louis Stevenson
An end to dreams by Stephen Vincent Benet
Parson's pleasure by Roald Dahl
The bride comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane
The monkey's paw by W. W. Jacobs
The Foster portfolio by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The poor relations story by Charles Dickens
The real thing by Henry James
The hostage by C. S. Forster
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
The girls in their summer dresses by Irving Shaw
The street that got mislaid by Patrick Waddington
A piece of steak by Jack London
The secret ingredient by Paul Gallico
The hawk by Liam O'Flaherty
The apprentice by Dorothy Canfeld Fisher
A sick call by Morley Callaghan
A terribly strange bed by Wilkie Collins
The loss by Gillian Tindall
The mouse by Saki (H. H. Munro)
Tickets, please by D. H. Lawrence
The country of the blind by H. G. Wells
The gifts of war by Margaret Drabble
The skedule by H. H. Wilson
"Well I'm - !" by G. E. M. Skues
The weather breeder by Merrill Dennison
In and out the houses by Elizabeth Taylor
A rose for Emily by William Faulkner
The test by Brendan Gill
The hammer of God by G. K. Chesterton
The pocketbook game by Alice Childress
The wedding gift by Thomas Raddell
The adventures of the speckled band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The pit and the pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
The boy who drew cats by Lafcadio Hern
The little governess by Katharine Mansfield
Running wolf by Algernon Blackwood
The peach stone by Paul Horgan
Red by W. Somerset Maugham
The firey wooing of Mordred by P. G. Wodehouse
A sunrise on the veld by Doris Lessing
The ghost by Richard Hughes
The birds by Daphne du Maurier
The story of the widow's son by Mary Lavin
The train from Rhodesia by Nadine Gordimer
Dygartsbush by Walter D. Edmonds
The jilting of Granny Weatherall by Katherine Anne Porter
Winter's morning by Len Deighton
The lady on the gray by John Collier
The wind and the snow of winter by Walter Van Tilburg Clark.