Contents:
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.