Great American Short Stories

Paul Negri Nathaniel Hawthorne Edgar Allan Poe Willa Cather Herman Melville Jack London Henry James Sarah Orne Jewett Kate Chopin Stephen Crane Ernest Hemingway Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman F. Scott Fitzgerald Ambrose Bierce Mark Twain Sherwood Anderson Theodore Dreiser Bret Harte Charles Waddell Chesnutt Charlotte Perkins Gilman First published 2002

About this book

Contents: 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) -- Sherwood Anderson: The egg (1921) -- Ernest Hemingway: The killers (1927)

Subjects

  • american horror tales
  • american literature
  • american short stories
  • catechism
  • children's fiction
  • classic literature
  • confederacy
  • copyists
  • crime
  • crime fiction
  • crime in fiction
  • delitos
  • detective and mystery stories
  • fiction
  • first-person narrative
  • gothic fiction
  • gothic fiction (literary genre)
  • hanging
  • history
  • homicide
  • horror
  • horror fiction
  • horror stories
  • horror tales
  • hyperesthesia
  • impulse
  • juvenile fiction
  • murder
  • murder in fiction
  • psychology
  • puritans
  • responsibility
  • satanism
  • securities industry people
  • short stories
  • short stories, american
  • short story
  • social life and customs
  • union
  • united states civil war
  • young men