Sabino Falls literary texts are the new standard for discerning scholars throughout the world. Our Essential anthologies are designed with students and instructors in mind. Thorough without being unwieldy, they offer readers the finest literary works to enjoy both in and out of the classroom. This volume contains original and unabridged texts from thirty masters of the short fiction form. It includes familiar favorites as well as forgotten classics, demonstrating the various shapes that the short story can take. In this volume are works by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, Ambrose Bierce, Willa Cather, Anton Chekov, Charles W. Chesnutt, Kate Chopin, Joseph Conrad, Stephen Crane, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Paul Laurence Dunbar, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Susan Glaspell, Nikolai Gogol, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Sarah Orne Jewett, James Joyce, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, H.P. Lovecraft, Katherine Mansfield, Guy de Maupassant, John Milton Oskison, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Edgar Allan Poe, Saki (H.H. Munro), Sui Sin Far, Edith Wharton, and Virginia Woolf.