The great modern American stories

By Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Ambrose Bierce, William Dean Howells, Theodore Dreiser, W.D. Howells

Subjects: Confederate States of America, History, Classic Literature, Fiction, hanging, Union, civil war, Juvenile audience, Social life and customs, American literature (collections), 20th century, Short Stories, Fiction, short stories (single author), American Short stories, American Civil War

Description: Contains: A reminiscent introduction / William Dean Howells -- My double; and how he undid me / Edward Everett Hale -- Circumstance / Harriet Prescott Spofford -- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain -- A passionate pilgrim / Henry James -- Mlle. Olympe Zabriski / T.B. Aldrich -- A prodigal in Tahiti / Charles Warren Stoddard -- The outcasts of Poker Flat / Francis Bret Harte -- The Christmas wreck / Frank Stockton -- The mission of Jane / Edith Wharton -- The courting of Sister Wisby / Sarah Orne Jewett -- The revolt of mother / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- Told in the poorhouse / Alice Brown -- [An 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 -- Striking an average / Henry B. Fuller -- Effie Wittlesy / George Ade. The lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser -- A failure / Edith Wyatt -- The yellow wall paper / Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman -- The little room / Madelene Yale Wynne -- Aunt Sanna Terry / Landon R. Dashiell -- The lotus eaters / Virginia Tracy -- Jean-Ah Poquelin / G.W. Cable -- Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, and the Tar Baby / Joel Chandler Harris -- Biographical notes and bibliography (p. 419-432).