Great American Short Stories

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

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Description: Contents: Nathaniel Hawthorne: [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) (1835) -- Edgar Allan Poe: [The tell-tale heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) (1843) -- Herman Melville: [Bartleby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W) (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](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078930W) (1897) -- Jack London: To build a fire (1908) -- Ambrose Bierce: [An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W) (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)