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-PartyIntroduction 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