The Treasury of American Short Stories

This is a comprehensive collection of American short stories starting with Washington Irving and going through to Ann Beatie. All of the writers are very well known and I make no attempt to rate the stories. One could make the argument that these are not the best short stories from each author, but as a group it is an impressive collection. It is best to look at the book that you will buy before completing the transaction since some copies are over 20 years old. The book came out in approximately 1981, was re-published and is available under two different ISBN reference numbers plus one other number,i.e.: ASIN B000IQKI26. I assume they are all similar but there might be small variations in re-printing. I bought one of the later printings. It is an excellent value. The contributors are listed in order of year of birth, oldest first, which is the same as their order of appearance of the stories in the book: Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rappaccini's Daughter Edgar Allen Poe, Ligeia Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener Mark Twain, The £ 1,000,000 Bank Note Bret Harte, The Gentleman of La Porte Ambrose Pierce, A Horseman in the Sky Henry James,The Real Thing Sarah Orne Jewett, The Hilton's Holiday Kate Chopin, A Shameful Affair O Henry, The World and the Door Edith Wharton, After Holbein Stephen Crane, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky Theodore Dreiser, The Lost Phoebe Willa Cather, Neighbour Rosicky Sherwood Anderson, The Egg Jack London, The God of His Fathers Conrad Aiken, Life isn't a Short Story Katherine Anne Porter, The Grave Dorothy Parker, You Were Perfectly Fine James Thurber, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Baby Party William Faulkner, That Evening Sun Ernest Hemingway, The Light of the World Kay Boyle, Nothing Ever Breaks Except the Heart John O'Hara, One for the Road Josephine Jacobsen, A walk With Raschild William Saroyan, The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze Eudora Welty, A Worn Path Hortense Calisher, The Night Club in the Woods John Cheever, Torch Song Jean Garrigue, The Snowfall Delmore Schwartz, In Dreams Begin Responsibilities Ralph Ellison, King of the Bingo Game Bernard Malamud, Black is My Favorite Color Saul Bellow, A Silver Dish Carson McCullers, The Jockey J.F. Powers, The Valiant Woman Shirley Jackson, The Lottery Peter Taylor, Three Heroines Jane Mayhall, An Old-Fashion Story Grace Paley, A Conversation With My father Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Welcome to the Monkey House A.C. Hoffmann, Happy Families James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues Truman Capote, Children on Their Birthdays Tome Filer, The Last Voyage John Hawkes, The Grandmother Flannery O'Connor, Parker's Back Nancy Potter, Light Timber Curtis Harnack, Voice of the Town W.S. Merwin, Sand John Barth, Lost in the Funhouse Donald Barthelme, Concerning the Bodyguard John Updike, The Bulgarian Poetess Philip Roth, Looking at Kafka LeRoi Jones, The Screamers Woody Allen, The Kugelmass Episode Russel Edson, A Man Wh