shorter third ed.

raamatus on 55 juttu, autorite lühibiograafiad ning kirjandusterminite minisõnastik

tekstide hulgast leiab näiteks:

- Ray Bradbury / The Veldt

- Willa Cather / Paul's Case

- Anton Chekov / The Lady with the Pet Dog + The Darling

- Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) / The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

- Joseph Conrad / Heart of Darkness

- Stephen Crane / The Open Boat

- William Faulkner / A Rose for Emily + The Bear

- F. Scott Fitzgerald / Babylon Revisited

- Nathaniel Hawthorne / Young Goodman Brown

- Ernest Hemingway / Hills Like White Elephants

- Shirley Jackson / The Lottery

- Franz Kafka / A Hunger Artist

- Katherine Mansfield / The Garden Party

- Herman Melville / Bartleby the Scrivener

- Edgar Allan Poe / The Fall of the House Usher

- John Steinbeck / The Chrysanthemums

- Virginia Woolf / Kew Gardens