Contents: Barn burning--Two soldiers--A rose for Emily--Dry September--That evening sun--Red leaves--Lo!--Turnabout--Honor--There was a queen--Mountain victory--Beyond--Race at morning. 1949 Nobel prize for literature.

Captures the danger and excitement of the Old West in a collection of stories including "The Little Kid," in which a young boy is orphaned after his father is killed on a cattle drive.

A collection of fifty-six familiar and unfamiliar stories by such writers as Washington Irving, Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry James, and Kate Chopin

A collection of short fiction explores the lives of a variety of characters, including a jaded Hollywood filmmaker, a precocious fifth-grader watching his parents' marriage disintegrate, and a child forced into a harrowing cross-country escape.