The American Short Story

"The American Short Story" Table Of Contents:

• 1- Rip Van Winkle ; The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving --
• 2- Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
• 3- The fall of the House of Usher ; The murders in the Rue Morgue ; The purloined letter / Edgar Allen Poe --
• 4- Benito Cereno / Herman Melville --
• 5- The man without a country / Edward Everett Hale --
• 6- The lady, or the tiger / Frank R. Stockton --
• 7- The celebrated jumping from of Calaveras County ; The man that corrupted Hadleyburg / Mark Twain --
• 8- The luck of Roaring Camp ; The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte --
• 9- Marjorie Daw / Thomas Bailey Aldrich --
• 10- The damned thing ; An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce --
• 11- The turn of the screw / Henry James --
• 12- Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, and the Tar Baby / Joel Chandler Harris --
• 13- A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett --
• 14- The story of the other wise man / Henry Van Dyke --
• 15- The return of a private / Hamlin Garland --
• 16- The mission of Jane / Edith Wharton --
• 17- The gift of the Magi ; The furnished room / O. Henry --
• 18- A deal in wheat / Frank Norris --
• 19- The open boat / Stephen Crane --
• 20- The lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser --
• 21- Paul's case / Willa Cather --
• 22- To build a fire / Jack London --
• 23- I'm a fool / Sherwood Anderson --
• 24- The golden homeymoon / Ring Lardner --
• 25- The afternoon of a faun / Edna Ferber --
• 26- Humoresque / Fannie Hurst --
• 27- Silent snow, secret snow / Conrad Aiken --
• 28- Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter --
• 29- Big blonde / Dorothy Parker --
• 30- The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber. Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald --
• 31- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner --
• 32- The Devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benét --
• 33- The snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway --
• 34- The lost boy / Thomas Wolfe --
• 35- The red pony / John Steinbeck --
• 36- Gimpel the fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer --
• 37- Imagine kissing Pete / John O'Hara --
• 38- The daring young man on the flying trapeze / William Saroyan --
• 39- Death of a traveling salesman / Eudora Welty --
• 40- Christ in concrete / Pietro Di Donato --
• 41- The country husband / John Cheever --
• 42- The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud --
• 43- A silver dish / Saul Bellow --
• 44- The lottery / Shirley Jackson --
• 45- There will come soft rains / Ray Bradbury --
• 46- Welcome to the monkey house / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. --
• 47- A Christmas memory / Truman Capote --
• 48- Tell me how long the train's been going / James Baldwin --
• 49- A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor --
• 50- Pigeon feathers / John Updike --
• 51- Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates.

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