Great American Short Stories Author:Paul Negri (Editor) Featuring 19 of the finest works from the most distinguished writers in the American short-story tradition, this compilation includes: "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Bartleby" by Herman Melville, "The Luck of Roaring Camp" by Bret Harte, "To Build a Fire" by Jack London, "The Real Thing&qu... more »ot; by Henry James, "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway, plus stories by Hawthorne, Twain, Cather, Bierce, Dreiser, and others.
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Young Goodman Brown (1835) --
Edgar Allan Poe: The tell-tale heart (1843) --
Herman Melville: Bartleby (1856) --
Bret Harte: The luck of Roaring Camp (1870) --
Stephen Crane: The bride comes to Yellow Sky (1878) --
Mark Twain: The private history of a campaign that failed (1885) --
Sarah Orne Jewett: A white heron (1886) --
Charles Waddell Chesnutt: The goophered grapevine (1887) --
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: A New England nun (1891) --
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The yellow wallpaper (1892) --
Henry James: The real thing (1893) --
Kate Chopin: A pair of silk stockings (1897) --
Jack London: To build a fire (1908) --
Ambrose Bierce: An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1909) --
Theodore Dreiser: The lost phoebe (1916) --
Willa Cather: Paul's case (1920) --
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Bernice bobs her hair (1920) --