This collection includes: PART I: STORIES -- Peter, On the Divide, Eric Hermannson's Soul, The Sentimentality of William Tavener, The Namesake, The Enchanted Bluff, The Joy of Nelly Deane, The Bohemian Girl, Consequences, The Bookkeeper's Wife, Ardessa, and Her Boss. PART II: REVIEWS AND ESSAYS -- Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Henry James, Harold Frederic, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, When I Knew Stephen Crane, and On the Art of Fiction. According to Wikipedia: "Willa Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873 - April 24, 1947) was an American author who grew up in Nebraska. She is best known for her depictions of frontier life on the Great Plains in novels such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark...Cather was celebrated by critics like H.L. Mencken for writing in plainspoken language about ordinary people. When novelist Sinclair Lewis won the Nobel Prize in Literature, he paid homage to her by saying that Cather should have won the honor."