Each of the texts included in this volume has been reproduced from its first publication, whether in a periodical or (in the case of Knapp’s “The Bachelors”) from its first printing in a book. The texts have not been modernized, except for the closing up of contractions (for example, do n’t, it ’s, there ’s, and so on) in “The Child’s Champion,” “The Man Who Thought Himself a Woman,” “Twin-Love,” “Martha’s Lady,” “The Candy Country,” and “Dave’s Neckliss.” The use of single and double quotation marks has been made consistent throughout the volume. A small number of obvious typographical errors have also been silently corrected. Illustrations, decorative titles, and ornamental typography that accompanied some of the texts in their original versions (Harte’s “In the Tules,” Far’s “The Heart’s Desire,” Alcott’s “The Candy Country,” and Chopin’s “Lilacs”) have not been reproduced here.