The American Short Story: A Collection of the Best Known and Most Memorable Stories by the Great American Authors

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Canonical title

The American Short Story: A Collection of the Best Known and Most Memorable Stories by the Great American Authors

Original title

The American Short Story

Original publication date

1994

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Contents:

• Rip van Winkle / Washington Irving
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving
• Rappaccini's Daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allen Poe
... (show all)>The Murders in the Rue Morgue / Edgar Allen Poe
• The Purloined Letter / Edgar Allen Poe
• Benito Cereno / Herman Melville
• The Man without a Country / Edward Everett Hale
• The Lady, or the Tiger / Frank R. Stockton
• The Celebrated Jumping from of Calaveras County / Mark Twain
• The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg / Mark Twain
• The Luck of Roaring Camp / Bret Harte
• The Outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte
• Marjorie Daw / Thomas Bailey Aldrich
• The Damned Thing / Ambrose Bierce
• An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce
• The Turn of the Screw / Henry James
• Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, and the Tar Baby / Joel Chandler Harris
• A White Heron / Sarah Orne Jewett
• The Story of the Other Wise Man / Henry van Dyke
• The Return of a Private / Hamlin Garland
• The Mission of Jane / Edith Wharton
• The Gift of the Magi / O. Henry
• The Furnished Room / O. Henry
• A Deal in Wheat / Frank Norris
• The Open Boat / Stephen Crane
• The Lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser
• Paul's Case / Willa Cather
• To Build a Fire / Jack London
• I'm a Fool / Sherwood Anderson
• The Golden Honeymoon / Ring Lardner
• The Afternoon of a Faun / Edna Ferber
• Humoresque / Fannie Hurst
• Silent Snow, Secret Snow / Conrad Aiken
• Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter
• Big Blonde / Dorothy Parker
• The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber
• Babylon Revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald
• A Rose for Emily / William Faulkner
• The Devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benét
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway
• The Lost Boy / Thomas Wolfe
• The Red Pony / John Steinbeck
• Gimpel the Fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer
• Imagine Kissing Pete / John O'Hara
• The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze / William Saroyan
• Death of a Traveling Salesman / Eudora Welty
• Christ in Concrete / Pietro Di Donato
• The Country Husband / John Cheever
• The Magic Barrel / Bernard Malamud
• A Silver Dish / Saul Bellow
• The Lottery / Shirley Jackson
• There Will Come Soft Rains / Ray Bradbury
• Welcome to the Monkey House / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
• A Christmas Memory / Truman Capote
• Tell Me How Long The Train's Been Going / James Baldwin
• A Good Man Is Hard to Find / Flannery O'Connor
• Pigeon Feathers / John Updike
• Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? / Joyce Carol Oatesy