Collected for the first time in one volume.

How does money - or the lack of it - affect our lives? What happens when the rich meet the poor, when status comes with a price tag, when personal desires do battle with financial concerns? This unique anthology offers a mosaic of answers, with stories by:

* Francine Prose

* F. Scott Fitzgerald

* Jack London

* Kate Chopin

* Ethan Canin

* Gloria Naylor

* Sandra Cisneros

* O. Henry

* Theodore Dreiser

* Stephen Crane

* Kate Braverman

* James T. Farrell

* Charlotte Perkins Gilman

* and many others.