Great American Short Stories is a collection of 19 classic American short stories.
Below are the titles of all 19 short stories included within this compilation:
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brown"
- Edgar Allan Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart"
- Herman Melville, "Bartleby"
- Bret Harte, "The Luck of Roaring Camp"
- Stephen Crane, "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky"
- Mark Twain, "The Private History of a Campaign that Failed"
- Sarah Orne Jewett, "A White Heron"
- Charles Waddell Chesnutt, "The Goophered Grapevine"
- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, "A New England Nun"
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper"
- Henry James, "The Real Thing"
- Kate Chopin, "A Pair of Silk Stockings"
- Jack London, "To Build a Fire"
- Ambrose Bierce, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
- Theodore Dreiser, "The Lost Phoebe"
- Willa Cather, "Paul's Case"
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Bernice Bobs Her Hair"
- Sherwood Anderson, "The Egg"
- Ernest Hemingway, "The Killers"
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