Essential works by the short-stories master, hosted by another literary icon—John Steinbeck. Charles Laughton and David Wayne are homeless in The Cop and the Anthem; cop Dale Robertson interrogates Richard Widmark in The Clarion Call; Jean Peters and Anne Baxter are sisters in The Last Leaf; Fred Allen and Oscar Levant are crooks in The Ransom of Red Chief; and in The Gift of the Magi, Jeanne Crain and Farley Granger hope for a Yule miracle.

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