From the back cover: Mining the rich literary terrain they explored in their previous collection, Stories of the Modern South, Forkner and Samway now look to the prose of an era gone by, the sometimes mellow, sometimes quixotic Old South. Most of the stories in this collection were written in the nineteenth century--others deal with the historical South from a fresh, newer perspective. This new collection includes works by James Lane Allen * Arna Wendell Bontemps * George Washington Cable * Charles Waddell Chesnutt * Kate Chopin * Charles Egbert Craddock (Mary Noailles Murfree) * William Elliott * William Faulkner * Ellen Glasgow * George Washington Harris * Joel Chandler Harris * O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) * Johnson Jones Hooper * Zora Neale Hurston * John Pendleton Kennedy * Grace King * Augustus Baldwin Longstreet * Andrew Nelson Lytle * Thomas Nelson Page * Edgar Allan Poe * Katherine Anne Porter * Elizabeth Madox Roberts * William Gilmore Simms * Madison Tensas, M.D. (Henry Clay Lewis) * Thomas Bangs Thorpe * Jean Toomer * Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) * Eudora Welty * Thomas Wolfe * Richard Wright.