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With works by Henry James, Stephen Crane, John Cheever, James Joyce and many others, this outstanding collection of 35 American and British short pieces of fiction from the first half of the 20th century is one of the bestselling collections of our time.

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Michael Lowes hummed as he shaved, amused by the face he saw-the pallid, asymmetrical face, with the right eye so much higher than the left, and its eyebrow so peculiarly arched, like a "v" turned upside down.

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  1. Robert Penn Warren (Editor)
  2. Albert Erskine (Editor)

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