Full Description
Featuring 19 of the finest works in the American short-story tradition, this compilation includes: "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Bartleby" by Herman Melville, "To Build a Fire" by Jack London, "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway, plus stories by Hawthorne, Twain, Cather, and others.
Contents
1 Nathaniel Hawthorne: Young Goodman Brown (1835)
2 Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)
3 Herman Melville: Bartleby (1856)
4 Bret Harte: The Luck of Roaring Camp (1870)
5 Stephen Crane: The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky (1878)
6 Mark Twain: The Private History of a Campaign that Failed (1885)
7 Sarah Orne Jewett: A White Heron (1886)
8 Charles Waddell Chesnutt: The Goophered Grapevine (1887)
9 Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: A New England Nun (1891)
10 Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)
11 Henry James: The Real Thing (1893)
12 Kate Chopin: A Pair of Silk Stockings (1897)
13 Jack London: To Build a Fire (1908)
14 Ambrose Bierce: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1909)
15 Theodore Dreiser: The Lost Phoebe (1916)
16 Willa Cather: Paul's Case (1920)
17 F. Scott Fitzgerald: Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1920)
18 Sherwood Anderson: The Egg (1921)
19 Ernest Hemingway: The Killers (1927)
