Signet Classic Book of American Short Stories

By Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Ambrose Bierce, William Faulkner, Nathaniel Hawthorne, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Kate Chopin, Burton Raffel, Jack London, Professor Burton Raffel Professor Burton Raffel

Subjects: Boys, catechism, short story, Union, Puritans, Devil, Short stories, american, Fiction, general, Juvenile audience, Copyists, American Civil War, classic literature, Securities industry, Satanism, civil war, Short Stories, Fiction, Children's fiction, Fiction, collections, history and criticism, Confederate States of America, History, Psychology, Young men, hanging

Description: Anthology contains: The specter bridegroom / Washington Irving -- [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The gold bug / Edgar Allan Poe -- [Bartleby the scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W) / Herman Melville -- Miss Asphyxia / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- The Iliad of Sandy Bar / Bret Harte -- Who was she? / Bayard Taylor -- Grit / Rose Terry Cooke -- [Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge) / Ambrose Bierce -- The return of a private / Hamlin Garland -- A New England nun / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- The real thing / Henry James -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The flight of Betsey Lane / Sarah O. Jewett -- La grande demoiselle / Grace Elizabeth King -- The war widow / Harold Frederic -- Madame Célestin's divorce / Kate Chopin -- The blue hotel / Stephen Crane -- A journey / Edith Wharton -- The man that corrupted Hadleyburg / Mark Twain -- All gold canyon / Jack London -- The rajah of Bungpore / F. Hopkinson Smith -- Nobody sick, nobody poor / Zona Gale -- One thousand dollars / O. Henry -- "Queer" / Sherwood Anderson -- Up in Michigan / Ernest Hemingway -- Great lady on a white horse / John Dos Passos -- The king of the cats / Stephen Vincent Benét -- Neighbour Rosicky / Willa Cather -- Turnabout / William Faulkner -- The evening's at seven / James Thurber -- The long way out / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Ever fall in love with a midget? / William Saroyan.