Fifty Great American Short Stories

A brilliant, far-reaching collection of stories from Washington Irving to John Updike The Classic StoriesEdgar Allan Poe's "Ms. Found in a Bottle," Bret Harte's "The Outcasts of Poker Flat," Sherwood Anderson's "Death in the Woods," Stephen Vincent Benet's "By the Waters of Babylon" The Great WritersMelville, James, Dreiser, Faulkner, Hemingway, Steinbeck, McCullers The Little-Known MasterpiecesEdith Wharton's "The Dilettante," Finley Peter Dunne's "Mr. Dooley on the Popularity of Fireman," Charles M. Flandrau's "A Dead Issue," James Reid Parker's "The Archimandrite's Niece"

Milton Crane was professor emeritus of English at George Washington University and of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago. He was the author of several books and articles on English literature, as well as the editor of the Bantam anthology, 50 Great American Short Stories. He passed away in 1985.