Contains: The two drovers / Sir Walter Scott --
from Bleak house / Charles Dickens --
from Adam Bede / George Eliot --
from Roughing it / Mark Twain --
from Lady Anna / Anthony Trollope --
from Billy Budd / Herman Melville --
from Weir of Hermiston / Robert Louis Stevenson --
The cop and the anthem / O. Henry --
from The Forsyte saga / John Galsworthy --
A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell --
The witness for the prosecution / Agatha Christie --
The letter / W. Somerset Maugham --
The majesty of the law / Frank O'Connor --
Shooting an elephant / George Orwell --
Tomorrow / William Faulkner --
And, or / Sterling A. Brown --
Happy event / Nadine Gordimer --
Greenhouse with Cyclamens I / Rebecca West --
from The floating opera / John Barth --
Eli, the fanatic / Philip Roth --
from To kill a mockingbird / Harper Lee --
Mr. Portway's practice / Michael Gilbert --
The senior partner's ghosts / Louis Auchincloss --
from The naked civil servant / Quentin Crisp --
from The French lieutenant's woman / John Fowles --
An act of prostitution / James Alan McPherson --
A gentleman's agreement / Elizabeth Jolley --
from The sorcerer of Bolinas Reef / Charles A. Reich --
from The good mother / Sue Miller --
from The bonfire of the vanities / Tom Wolfe --
American appetites / Joyce Carol Oates --
A lesson before dying / Ernest J. Gaines.