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 Benét's 'By the Waters of Babylon' The Great Writers Melville, James, Dreiser, Faulkner, Hemingway, Steinbeck, McCullers