40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology

Economical in both size and price, 40 Short Stories offers a well-chosen array of popular and significant stories, enhanced by unobtrusive but effective editorial features.

This volume in Bedford/St. Martin’s series of Portable Anthologies and Portable Guides offers the series’ trademark combination of high quality and great value for teachers of literature and composition and their cost-conscious students.

BEVERLY LAWN (Ph.D. SUNY-Stony Brook), Professor of English Emerita, taught introductory fiction courses at Adelphi University for almost three decades. Editor or co-editor several literature anthologies, including Literature: A Portable Anthology, she is also the author of Throat of Feathers, a book of poems.