Authored by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, Henry James, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, O. Henry, Saki, Victor Sawdon Pritchett, Stephen Crane, Walter De la Mare, William Somerset Maugham, Sherwood Anderson, Alfred Edgar Coppard, James Joyce, Ring Lardner, Katherine Mansfield, Katherine Anne Porter, Liam O'Flaherty, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Elizabeth Bowen, Seán O'Faoláin, Frank O'Connor, Morley Callaghan, Herbert Ernest Bates, R. K. Narayan, Eudora Welty, William Sansom, Mary Lavin, Patrick White, John Cheever, Doris Lessing, Flannery O'Connor, William Trevor, John Updike