A classic anthology of short fiction by the acclaimed author gathers concise stories about New York City, confidence men, hoboes, the West, South America, and the American South, including such famed works as "The Gift of the Magi" and "The Furnished Room."

Presents Burton Raffel's translation of the fourteenth-century English poem in which a mysterious green-skinned knight interrupts Christmas at Camelot and presents a dangerous challenge, to which Sir Gawain steps up.