In an era when readers are rediscovering the story form, story is magnificently displayed in this new selection. Seventeen great authors from Gogol, Tolstoy, Maupassant, Allen Poe etc; a new generation of writers is invigorating the art of short fiction viz., Huxley, Benet, Machado, Rynosuke, Joyce Carol Oates et. al. This is a rich treasury with the Best of Two Centuries.