Title on dust cover: "Great short stories of the world : 71 of the finest stories ever written." Table of Contents: The leader of the people / John Steinbeck -- Mr. Know-all / W. Somerset Maugham -- Vanka / Anton Chekhov -- The happy prince / Oscar Wilde -- The old demon / Pearl S. Buck -- The sailor-boy's tale / Isak Dinesen -- Young Archimedes / Aldous Huxley -- Butch minds the baby / Damon Runyon -- Suspicion / Dorothy L. Sayers -- Hautot and his son / Guy de Maupassat -- The open boat / Stephen Crane -- My Oedipus complex / Frank O'Conner -- The snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway -- A letter to God / Gregorio Lp?ez y Fuentes -- The little Bouilloux girl / Colette -- The ruby / Corrado Alvaro --Six feet of the country / Nadine Gordimer -- The boarding house / James Joyce -- The brute / Joseph Conrad -- A double game / Alberto Moravia -- Maternity / Lilika Nakos -- Lead her like a pigeon / Jessamyn West -- God sees the truth, but waits / Leo Tolstoy -- The walker-through-walls / Marcel Ayme -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- The McWilliamses and the burglar alarm / Mark Twain -- The Augsburg chalk circle / Bertolt Brecht -- The overcoat / Sally Benson -- Blind MacNair / Thomas H. Raddall -- The procurator of Judaea / Anatole France -- The open window / Saki (H.H. Munro) -- Mara? Concepcin? / Katherine A. Porter -- My Lord, the baby / Rabindranath Tagore -- The end of the party / Graham Greene -- Modern children / Sholom Aleichem -- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Carrion spring / Wallace Stegner. Just lather, that's all / Hernando T?lez -- The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber -- The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence -- The Sunday menace / Robert Benchley -- The Mezzotint /Montague R. James -- The alligators / John Updike -- Pelageya / Mikhail Zoshchenko -- Haircut / Ring Lardner -- The burning city / Hjalmar Sd?erberg -- Fireworks for Elspeth / Rumer Godden -- The old chief Mshlanga / Doris Lessing -- Who cares? / Santha R. Rau -- Over the river and though the wood / John O'Hara -- Dental or mental, I say it's spinach / S.J. Perelman -- The drover's wife / Henry Lawson -- The huntsmen / Paul Horgan -- The guest / Albert Camus -- Patience / Nigel Balchin -- Among the paths to Eden / Truman Capote -- Admiral's night / Machado de Assis -- The bet / Anton Chekhov -- The man who could work miracles / H.G. Wells -- A country love story / Jean Stafford -- A worn path / Eudora Welty -- The outstation / W. Somerset Maugham -- A priest in the family / Leo Kennedy -- The cop and the anthem / O. Henry -- Marriage ?la mode / Katherine Mansfield -- The nightingale / Maxim Gorky -- The launch / Max Aub -- The wreath / Luigi Pirandello -- The eighty-yard run / Irwin Shaw -- You were perfectly fine / Dorothy Parker -- Luzina take a holiday / Gabrielle Roy.