PART ONEBRITISH SHORT STORIES George Eliot (1819--1880) The Lifted Veil Joseph Conrad (1857--1924) The Secret Sharer W. W. Jaeobs (1863--1943) The Monkey' s Paw Joseph Kipling (1865--1936) Mrs. Bathurst H. G. Wells (1866--1946) The Door in the Wall John Galsworthy (1867--1933) The Japanese Quince Virginia Woolf (1882--1941) Kew Gardens James Joyee (1882--1941) Araby D. H. Lawrence (1885--1930) The Rocking Horse Winner Katherine Mansfield (1888--1923) The Garden Party PART TWOAMERICAN SHORT STORIES Washington Irving (1783--1859) Rip Van Winkle Edgar Allan Poe (1809--1849) The Masque of the Red Death Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804--1864) The Minister's Black Veil Mark Twain (1835--1910) The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Kate Chopin (1850--1904) The Story of an Hour Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1852--1930) A New England Nun Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860--1935) The Yellow Wallpaper Edith Wharton (1862--1937) Roman Fever Jack London (1876--1916) To Build a Fire Sherwood Anderson (1876--1941) Death in the Woods References