The Penguin Book of American Short StoriesJames Cochrane1969

This collection offers twenty-one short stories from the literature of America, a nation which has always been particularly at home in this form, and which has produced many of its masters. Some of the stories included - those by Poe, James and Hemingway for example - are already widely known. Some of the others will be less familiar to the English reader. The collection as a whole should serve as an introduction to the rich diversity of pleasures that the American short story at its best can offer.