The 54 stories in the Sixth Edition, 19 of which are new, provide a wealth of classroom favorites and contemporary selections, among them stories by Toni Cade Bambara, Charles Baxter, Joseph Conrad, Julio Cort?zar, Ha Jin, Margaret Laurence, Reginald McKnight, Eudora Welty, and Edith Wharton. The Sixth Edition Strengthens its emphasis on reading texts in different contexts--authorial, literary, cultural, and social--with two new "Exploring...