Each bi-annual volume presents vital information on approximately 20 of the most-studied short stories at the high school and early-college levels. Titles featured in vol. 4 of Short Stories for Students include:
"Babylon Revisited" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Bloody Chamber" by Angela Carter
"Blues Ain't No Mockingbird" by Toni Cade Bambara
"Disorder and Early Sorrow" by Thomas Mann
"Guest" by Albert Camus
"In the Garden of the North American Martyrs" by Tobias Wolff