The United Kingdom 1
Thomas Hardy(1840-1928) 1
The Withered Arm 1
William Somerset Maugham(1874-1965) 35
The Book-Bag 35
Virginia Woolf(1882-1941) 78
Kew Gardens 78
D.H.Lawrence(1885-1930) 89
The Horse Dealer,s Daughter 89
Doris Lessing(1919-) 111
To Room Nineteen 111
The United States of America 148
Nathaniel Hawthorne(1804-1864) 148
Young Goodman Brown 148
Edgar Allan Poe(1809-1849) 167
The Fall of the House of Usher 167
Mark Twain(Samuel Langhorne Clemens,1835-1910) 191
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County 191
Sherwood Anderson(1876-1941) 202
Death in the Woods 202
Jack London(1876-1916) 219
To Build a Fire 219
William Faulkner(1897-1962) 239
A Rose for Emily 239
Ernest Hemingway(1899-1961) 253
The Snows of Kilimanjaro 253
John Steinbeck(1902-1968) 283
The Chrysanthemums 283
John Hoyer Updike(1932-) 298
Separating 298
The Republic of Ireland 315
Frank O'Connor(1903-1966) 315
Guest of the Nation 315
Canada 331
Morley Callaghan(1903-1990) 331
Now That April's Here 331
Australia 343
Henry Lawson(1867-1922) 343
The Drover's Wife 343
New Zealand 355
Katherine Mansfield(1888-1923) 355
The Garden Party 355