by William Dean Howells ; with an introduction by Mildred Howells. by Willa Cather ; with an introduction by Vivian Gornick. William Faulkner ; with an introduction by Richard Hughes. by Stephen Crane ; with an introduction by Alfred Kazin. by Harriet Beecher Stowe, with an introduction by Alfred Kazin. by Mary Shelley ; with an introduction by Diane Johnson. by E. M. Forster ; with an introduction by Samuel Hynes. by Edith Wharton ; with an introduction by R.W.B. Lewis. by Henry James ; with an introduction by R.W.B. Lewis. by Mark Twain ; edited with an introduction by Peter Coveney.