The Penguin book of English short stories.

the long version

The signalman / Charles Dickens -- The withered arm / Thomas Hardy -- An outpost of progress / Joseph Conrad -- At the end of the passage / Rudyard Kipling -- The country of the blind / H.G. Wells -- The force of circumstance / W. Somerset Maugham -- The dead / James Joyce -- Kew Gardens / Virginia Woolf -- Fanny and Annie / D.H. Lawrence -- The voyage / Katherine Mansfield -- The breakout / Joyce Cary -- The gioconda smile / Aldous Huxley -- The fly in the ointment / V.S. Pritchett -- Mr Loveday's little outing / Evelyn Waugh -- Across the bridge / Graham Greene -- Raspberry jam / Angus Wilson.