Mr. Schenker now supplements his Beginning Polish with a selection of fifteen unabridged, annotated short stories, each by a different author, to be used in beginning and intermediate college courses in Polish. All of the stories, which were written within the last twenty—five years, are set in contemporary Poland, and are by authors generally considered to be among the most significant and interesting in post—World War II Poland. Each selection is preceded by an English—language biography and literary appreciation of the author. Problems that might be encountered by the reader – whether of a linguistic or cultural nature – are explained in footnotes, and a glossary at the end of the book contains all of the words occurring in the stories. There is no other reader dealing exclusively with twentieth—century Polish prose.Mr. Schenker is chairman of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature at Yale University.