Great American Short Stories

About this work
Contains: Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- Young Goodman Brown (opens in a new tab) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Fall of the house of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- Bartleby the scrivener (opens in a new tab) / Herman Melville -- Baker's bluejay yarn / Mark Twain -- Tennessee's partner / Bret Harte -- The real thing / Henry James -- The boarded window / Ambrose Bierce -- A village singer / Mary Wilkins Freeman -- Mrs.Ripley's trip / Hamlin Garland -- A muncipial report / O. Henry -- Roman fever / Edith Wharton -- The open boat / Stephen Crane -- Unlighted lamps / Sherwood Anderson -- The man who saw through heaven / Wilbur Daniel Steele -- Silent snow, secret snow / Conrad Aiken -- He / Katherine Anne Porter -- The catbird seat / James Thurber -- The little wife / William March -- Wash (opens in a new tab) / William Faulkner -- The snake / John Steinbeck -- To the mountains / Paul Horgan -- Over the river and through the wood / John O'Hara -- The wind and the snow of winter / Walter Van Tilburg Clark -- Powerhouse / Eudora Welty -- In greenwich there are many gravelled walks / Hortense Calisher.
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Edition identifiers ISBN-10 0881030759 · ISBN-13 9780881030754
Subjects
- American fiction
- short stories
- American Horror tales
- burial vaults
- catalepsy
- dragons
- Fiction
- gothic fiction
- hermitages
- heroic romances
- horror
- horror tales





