Studies in short fiction; five short novels and twenty-five stories.

Table of Contents:

The art of modern fiction

Table of Contents: “…The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad -- Benito Cereno / Herman Melville -- Analyses of novels : Madame Bovary / Gustave Flaubert -- The American / Henry James -- The Mayor of Casterbridge / Thomas Hardy -- Victory / Joseph Conrad -- A farewell to arms / Ernest Hemingway.…”

The house of fiction : an anthology of the short story, with commentary /

Studies in the short story,

Table of Contents: “…Scott Fitzgerald -- The short happy life of Francis Macomber -- The tell-tale heart (c. 1840) / Edgar Allan Poe -- My kinsman, Major Molineux (1837) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Bartleby (1853) / Herman Melville -- The lament (c. 1885) / Anton Chekhov -- The real thing (1893) / Henry James -- Heart of darkness (1899) / Joseph Conrad -- The open boat (1897) / Stephen Crane -- The gentleman from San Francisco (c. 1917) / Ivan Bunin -- A little cloud (1905) / James Joyce -- Petrified man (1939) / Eudora Welty -- Goodbye, my brother (1946) / John Cheever -- The unspoiled reaction (1946) / Mary McCarthy -- The patented gate and the mean hamburger (1947) / Robert Penn Warren -- Who made yellow roses yellow? …”