50 Great Short Stories ed. Milton Crane (Bantam, August 1952, A950, 35¢, 632pp, pb, an)
Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson.
- 1 · The Garden Party · Katherine Mansfield · ss The Saturday Westminster Gazette February 4 1922 (+2)
- 18 · The Three-Day Blow [Nick Adams] · Ernest Hemingway · ss In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway, Boni & Liveright, 1925
- 29 · The Standard of Living · Dorothy Parker · ss The New Yorker September 20 1941
- 36 · The Saint · V. S. Pritchett · ss Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art April 1940
- 51 · The Other Side of the Hedge · E. M. Forster · ss The Independent November 1904
- 58 · Brooksmith · Henry James · ss Black & White #13, May 2 1891
- 77 · The Jockey · Carson McCullers · ss The New Yorker August 23 1941
- 83 · The Courting of Dinah Shadd · Rudyard Kipling · nv Macmillan’s Magazine March 1890
- 109 · The Shot · Alexander Poushkin; translated by T. Keane · nv The Prose Tales of Poushkin by Alexander Poushkin, G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1894
translated from the Russian (1831).
- 124 · Graven Image · John O’Hara · ss The New Yorker March 13 1943
- 130 · Putois · Anatole France; translated by Frederic Chapman · ss Crainquebille, Putois, Riquet, and Other Profitable Tales by Anatole France, John Lane, 1915
- 145 · Only the Dead Know Brooklyn · Thomas Wolfe · ss The New Yorker June 15 1935
- 152 · A.V. Laider · Max Beerbohm · nv The Century Magazine June 1916
- 175 · The Lottery · Shirley Jackson · ss The New Yorker June 26 1948
- 185 · The Masque of the Red Death · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine May 1842, as “The Mask of the Red Death: A Fantasy”
- 192 · Looking Back · Guy de Maupassant; translated by H. N. P. Sloman · ss Miss Harriet and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant, Penguin, 1951; translator given as H.N.P. Slomen on the story itself.
- 199 · The Man Higher Up [Jeff Peters] · O. Henry · ss The Times Magazine (Oakland) February 1907
- 213 · The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse [Aram Garoghlanian] · William Saroyan · ss Esquire June 1938, as “The Beautiful White Horse”
- 221 · The Other Two · Edith Wharton · nv Collier’s Weekly February 13 1904
- 245 · Theft · Katherine Anne Porter · ss The Gyroscope November 1929
- 252 · For Esmé—with Love and Squalor · J. D. Salinger · nv The New Yorker April 8 1950
- 276 · The Man of the House · Frank O’Connor · ss The New Yorker December 3 1949
- 286 · The Man Who Shot Snapping Turtles · Edmund Wilson · ss Memoirs of Hecate County, Doubleday, 1946
- 301 · The Gioconda Smile · Aldous Huxley · nv The English Review August 1921
- 334 · The Curfew Tolls · Stephen Vincent Benét · ss The Saturday Evening Post October 5 1935
- 353 · Father Wakes Up the Village [Day Family] · Clarence Day · ss The New Yorker May 19 1934
- 360 · Ivy Day in the Committee Room · James Joyce · ss The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914
- 378 · The Chrysanthemums · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1937
- 391 · The Door · E. B. White · ss The New Yorker March 25 1939
- 396 · An Upheaval · Anton Chekhov; translated by Constance Garnett · ss The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov, Chatto & Windus, 1917
- 405 · How Beautiful with Shoes · Wilbur Daniel Steele · nv Harper’s Magazine August 1932
- 430 · A Haunted House · Virginia Woolf · vi Monday or Tuesday by Virginia Woolf, Hogarth Press, 1921
- 432 · The Catbird Seat · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker November 14 1942
- 443 · The Schartz-Metterklume Method · “Saki” · ss The Westminster Gazette October 14 1911
- 449 · The Death of a Bachelor · Arthur Schnitzler; translated by Eric Sutton · ss Little Novels, Simon and Schuster, 1929
- 462 · The Apostate · George Milburn · ss The New Yorker June 4 1932
- 468 · The Phoenix · Sylvia Townsend Warner · ss The Cat’s Cradle Book by Sylvia Townsend Warner, Viking, 1940
- 473 · That Evening Sun · William Faulkner · nv The American Mercury March 1931
- 493 · The Law · Robert M. Coates · ss The New Yorker November 29 1947
- 499 · The Tale · Joseph Conrad · ss The Strand Magazine October 1917
- 518 · A Girl from Red Lion, P.A. · H. L. Mencken · ar The New Yorker February 15 1941
- 527 · Main Currents of American Thought · Irwin Shaw · ss The New Yorker August 5 1939
- 538 · The Ghosts · Lord Dunsany · ss The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories by Lord Dunsany, G. Allen, 1908
- 543 · The Minister’s Black Veil · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The Token and Atlantic Souvenir 1836, 1835, as by The Author of “Sights from a Steeple”; subtitled “A Patable”.
- 558 · A String of Beads · W. Somerset Maugham · vi Cosmopolitan February 1927, as “Pearls”
- 566 · The Golden Honeymoon · Ring W. Lardner · ss Cosmopolitan July 1922
- 585 · The Man Who Could Work Miracles · H. G. Wells · ss The Illustrated London News July 1898
- 605 · The Foreigner · Francis Steegmuller · ss The New Yorker May 18 1935
- 609 · Thrawn Janet · Robert Louis Stevenson · ss The Cornhill Magazine October 1881, as by R. L. S.
- 621 · The Chaser · John Collier · ss The New Yorker December 28 1940
- 625 · A Note on the Making of This Book · Milton Crane · ms
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