Kielty Bernardine. A Treasury of Short Stories

7th edition. — New York: Simon and Schuster. — 872 p.The seventy stories in this volume cover the past hundred years, from Turgenev to Thurber, from Balzac to Hemingway. They were chosen solely for reading enjoyment, but through their changes in form and viewpoint over the years they also present a graphic history of the development of the short story itself.
The lives of the men and women who wrote the stories, often as dramatic as their fiction, have been included in short introductory sketches by the editor.