Certainly no form lends itself so well to a full but lucid and economical treatment of a subject as the short novel, and the short novels in this collection are among the very finest written in the English language, as well as some of the finest work of the writers represented in this volume: Carson McCullers - The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, Katherine Anne Porter - Pale Horse, Pale Rider, Edith Wharton - Bunner Sisters, D.H. Lawrence- The Fox, Joseph Conrad - Typhoon, Stephen Crane - The Monster, Henry James - The Pupil, Herman Melville - Benito Cereno.

(Key Words: Novels, Fiction, Carson McCullers, Katherine Anne Porter, Edith Wharton, D. H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, Stephen Crane, Henry James, Herman Melville).