Modern short stories; the uses of imagination / edited by Arthur Mizener.

Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad -- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Artists in uniform / Mary McCarthy -- A story / Dylan Thomas -- My Oedipus complex / Frank O'Connor -- The grave / Katherine Anne Porter -- Sense of shelter / John Updike -- The day Stalin died / Doris Lessing -- The artificial nigger / Flannery O'Connor -- The tone of time ; The jolly corner ; The lesson of the master / Henry James -- Roman fever / Edith Wharton -- The gambler, the nun, and the radio / Ernest Hemingway -- A couple of hamburgers / James Thurber -- Defender of the faith / Philip Roth -- A losing game / J.F. Powers -- Beggar my neighbor / Dan Jacobson -- The waiting / James Agee -- The odor of chrysanthemums ; The shadow in the rose garden ; The white stocking / D.H. Lawrence -- Pnin / Vladimir Nabokov -- The egg / Sherwood Anderson -- Araby / James Joyce -- Her first ball / Katherine Mansfield -- Take pity / Bernard Malamud -- The gardner / Rudyard Kipling -- The fire and the hearth ; Delta autumn ; Raid / William Faulkner -- When the light gets green / Robert Penn Warren -- Old Red / Caroline Gordon -- A worn path / Eudora Welty -- Mister McGregor / Andrew Lytle -- What you hear from 'em? / Peter Taylor -- Uncle Grant / Reynolds Price.