Great American Short Stories [34 stories]

By Bret Harte, Richard Connell, Heywood Broun, Ernest Hemingway, Marc Connelly, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Henry James, O. Henry, Ambrose Bierce, William Faulkner, Jesse Stuart, John O'Hara, John Cheever, Ray Bradbury, Stephen Crane, John Steinbeck, Stephen Vincent Benét, John Updike, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Eudora Welty, Richard Wright, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, The Editors of The Reader's Digest, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Pearl S. Buck, Jack London, Shirley Ann Grau, Ring Lardner, Shirley Jackson, Kay Boyle, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Susan Glaspell, Damon Runyon, Readers Digest Editors

Subjects: hunting dogs, Crime, Travel fiction, animal trapping, Hyperesthesia, Juvenile fiction, Gothic fiction, Homicide, Cossacks, jaguars, American Horror tales, Young men, Classic Literature, Horror fiction, Hunting, Fiction, American literature, Horror tales, Murder, Copyists, Psychology, Horror stories, class conflict, Children's fiction, Juvenile works, trapping pits, Big game sport, Human hunting, short stories, snow leopards, Horror, knouts, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, survival of the fittest, Islands, American Short stories, Securities industry, deaf-mutes, Crime fiction, first-person narrative, Detective and mystery stories, Hunting stories

Description: Contains: Winter Dreams What Stumped the Bluejays To Build a Fire A Jury of Her Peers The Storm The Pioneer Hep-Cat The Furnished Room I Can’t Breathe The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber A New England Nun The Chrysanthemums [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) The Man Who Saw the Flood [Barn Burning](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20080279W/Barn_Burning) The Yellow Wall Paper Hook The Key The Shore Line at Sunset The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown Coroner’s Inquest Roman Fever The Outcasts of Poker Flat The Last Gas Station The Fifty-First Dragon Sir Edmund Orme The Daemon Lover The Blue Hotel You’ll Never Know, Eear, How Much I Love You The Beauty The Devil and Daniel Webster Winter Night [Bartleby the Scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W/Bartleby_the_Scrivener) Christmas is a Sad Season for the Poor The Boarded Window Jug of silver / Truman Capote -- Night club / Katharine Brush -- The lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser -- [The most dangerous game](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5278311W) / Richard Connell -- The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud -- If Grant had been drinking at Appomattox / James Thurber -- The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving -- The music of Erich Zann / H.P. Lovecraft -- Enoch and the gorilla / Flannery O'Connor -- The untold lie / Sherwood Anderson -- Horse thief / Erskine Caldwell -- The haunted boy / Carson McCullers -- The valiant woman / J.F. Powers -- The minister's wife / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The rockpile / James Baldwin -- The enchanted bluff / Willa Cather -- O how she laughed / Conrad Aiken.