A brilliant, far-reaching collection of stories from Washington Irving to John Updike. The Classic Stories. Edgar 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 Writers. Melville, James, Dreiser, Faulkner, Hemingway, Steinbeck, McCullers. The Little-Known Masterpieces. Edith Wharton`s The Dilettante, Finley Peter Dunne`s Mr. Dooley on the Popularity of Fireman, Charles `s A Dead Issue, James Reid Parker`s The Archimandrite`s Niece.