Introduction
Section One Early
��Charles Dickens The Signal-Man
��George Eliot The Lifted Veil
��Rudyard Kipling The Man who would be King
��Thomas Hardy The Son's Veto
����The Three Strangers
��Joseph Conrad The Secret Sharer
Section Two Modern
��James Joyce Araby
����The Dead
��D. H. Lawrence Rocking-Horse Winner
����The Horse Dealer's Daughter
��Katherine Mansfield The Garden-Party
��Virginia Woolf Kew Gardens
����The Mark on the Wall
��Robert Louis Stevenson Markheim
��W. Somerset Maugham The Outstation
��H. G. Wells The Door in the Wall
Section Three Contemporary
��Saki The Open Window
����The Interlopers
��Doris Lessing To Room Nineteen
��Elizabeth Bowen The Demon Lover
��Graham Greene The Destructors
Bibliography