Willa Cather ; with an introduction by Marilyn Sides and a new afterword by Terese Svoboda. Rudyard Kipling, With an Introduction by Marilyn Sides and a New Afterword by Jane Yolen. Mark Twain ; with an introduction by Robert S. Tilton and a new afterword by Geoffrey Sanborn. Brian Aldiss ; with an introduction by Neil Gaiman and a new afterword by Brian Aldiss. Jane Austen ; with an introduction by Margaret Drabble and a new afterword by Mary Balogh. with an introduction by Irving Howe, and a new afterword by Dean Koontz Mark Twain ; with an introduction by Justin Kaplan and a new afterword by John Seelye. with an introduction by Gore Vidal and a new afterword by Michael Meyer. with an introduction by Jim Knipfel and a new afterword by Marlee Matlin. Charles Dickens ; with an introduction by Stanley Weintraub and a new afterword by Annabel Davis-Goff.