Carol Shields ; with an introduction by Margaret Atwood. David Spiller ; with an introduction by Brian Baumfield. Edith Wharton ; with an introduction by Mary Gordon. edited and with an introduction by Robert Atwan. Charles Dickens ; with an introduction by Mary M. Threapleton. by Mary Shelley ; with an introduction by Diane Johnson. edited with an introduction by Malcolm Cowley. Kate Chopin ; with an introduction by Marilynne Robinson. George Bernard Shaw ; with an introduction by Michael Holroyd. James S. Holmes ; with an introduction by Raymond van den Broeck.