The American scene. Winter dreams / F. Scott Fitzgerald ; This town and Salamanca / Allan Seager ; The enormous radio / John Cheever -- Continental classics. Bezhin Meadow / Ivan Turgenev ; A simple heart / Gustave Flaubert ; At sea / Guy de Maupassant -- Toward a modern tradition. The real thing / Henry James ; The bride comes to Yellow Sky / Stephen Crane ; Counterparts / James Joyce ; The horse dealer's daughter / D.H. Lawrence -- The queen of spades / Alexander Pushkin -- The nose / Nikolai Gogol -- Gooseberries / Anton Chekhov -- How much land does a man need? / Leo Tolstoy -- Cavalleria rusticana / Giovanni Verga -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Norfolk Isle and the chola widow / Herman Melville -- The lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser -- The egg / Sherwood Anderson -- Red leaves / William Faulkner -- The soft touch of grass / Luigi Pirandello -- The wall / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Hook / Walter Van Tilburg Clark -- Under the sky / Paul Bowles -- The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud -- Looking for Mr. Green / Saul Bellow -- A Christmas memory / Truman Capote -- Appendix A. A bottle of milk for mother / Nelson Algren ; Commentary on Algren's "A bottle of milk for mother" -- Appendix B. Old man at the bridge / Ernest Hemingway ; A student discussion of Hemingway's "Old man at the bridge."

1. Short stories