PART Ⅰ. SHORT STORIES 1. How to Read Short Stories / Clifton Fadiman ... 9 2. After Twenty Years / O. Henry ... 13 3. The Lady or the Tiger? / Frank R. Stockton ... 18 4. Appointment with Love / S. J. Kishor ... 25 5. The Boarding House / James Joyce ... 29 6. Red / W. Somerset Maugham ... 39 7. The Jewelry / Guy De Maupassant ... 68 8. A Rose for Emily / William Faulkner ... 78 9. The Strawberry Season / Erskine Caldwell ... 91 10. The Snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway ... 96 11. The Gioconda Smile / Aldous Huxley ... 128 12. Adventure / Sherwood Anderson ... 168 PART Ⅱ. ESSAYS 1. What Is the Essay? / Houston Peterson ... 179 2. To the Reader / Michel Eyquem de Montaigne ... 183 3. On Reading / John Churchman ... 184 4. Of Studies / Sir Francis Bacon ... 190 5. On Attending College / Mark Van Doren ... 192 6. East and West / Pearl Buck ... 195 7. Dream Children; a Reverie / Charles Lamb ... 198 8. Marriage Custom In Africa / Albert Schweitzer ... 204 9. The Happiest Man on Earth / Albert Maltz ... 207 10. "Ask Not What Your Country Can Do for You" / John F. Kennedy ... 222 11. Beauty in Korea / David Hackett ... 228 12. On the Cries of London / Joseph Addison ... 232 PART Ⅲ. SELECTED POEMS 1. My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold? / William Wordsworth ... 239 2. Break, Break, Break / Alfred Tennyson ... 240 3. Be the Best of Whatever You Are / Douglas Malloch ... 241 4. O my Love's Like a Red, Red Rose / Robert Burns ... 242 5. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening / Robert Frost ... 243