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Great American Short Stories

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

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Contents: Nathaniel Hawthorne: Young Goodman Brown (1835) -- Edgar Allan Poe: The tell-tale heart (1843) -- Herman Melville: Bartleby (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 (1897) -- Jack London: To build a fire (1908) -- Ambrose Bierce: An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (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)

Genres

  • History
  • Fiction
  • United States Civil War
  • Classic Literature
  • Short Stories
  • hanging
  • Confederacy
  • Union
  • American Short stories
  • Social life and customs
  • impulse
  • responsibility
  • short story
  • Satanism
  • Puritans
  • catechism
  • Young men
  • Copyists
  • Psychology
  • Securities industry PEOPLE
  • Short stories, american
  • American Horror tales
  • American literature
  • Children's fiction
  • Crime
  • Crime fiction
  • Crime in fiction
  • Delitos
  • Detective and mystery stories
  • first-person narrative
  • Gothic fiction
  • Gothic fiction (literary genre)
  • Homicide
  • Horror
  • Horror fiction
  • Horror stories
  • Horror tales
  • Hyperesthesia
  • Juvenile fiction
  • Murder
  • Murder in fiction
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    About the authors

    • Paul Negri

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      0 ratings · 21 works

    • Charles Waddell Chesnutt

      1858 - 1932

      3.00

      3 ratings · 67 works

    • Charlotte Perkins Gilman

      1860 - 1935

      3.88

      72 ratings · 822 works

    • Willa Cather

      7 December 1873 - 24 April 1947

      3.87

      55 ratings · 778 works

    • Kate Chopin

      1850 - 1904

      3.94

      134 ratings · 597 works

    • Theodore Dreiser

      1871 - 1945

      4.00

      24 ratings · 498 works

    • Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

      31 October 1852 - 13 March 1930

      4.06

      16 ratings · 163 works

    • Sherwood Anderson

      1876 - 1941

      3.65

      20 ratings · 244 works

    • Ernest Hemingway

      21 July 1899 - 2 July 1961

      3.82

      386 ratings · 1121 works

    • Stephen Crane

      1 November 1871 - 5 June 1900

      3.77

      48 ratings · 840 works

    • Herman Melville

      1 August 1819 - 28 September 1891

      3.85

      240 ratings · 2366 works

    • Ambrose Bierce

      1842 - 1914?

      3.94

      137 ratings · 1088 works

    • Nathaniel Hawthorne

      4 July 1804 - 19 May 1864

      3.59

      228 ratings · 1885 works

    • Bret Harte

      1836 - 1902

      4.08

      24 ratings · 619 works

    • Mark Twain

      30 November 1835 - 21 April 1910

      3.86

      605 ratings · 7192 works

    • Henry James

      15 April 1843 - 28 February 1916

      3.68

      136 ratings · 5088 works

    • Sarah Orne Jewett

      1849 - 1909

      4.07

      14 ratings · 274 works

    • F. Scott Fitzgerald

      24 September 1896 - 21 December 1940

      3.92

      286 ratings · 1273 works

    • Jack London

      12 January 1876 - 22 November 1916

      3.94

      300 ratings · 3843 works

    • Edgar Allan Poe

      19 January 1809 - 7 October 1849

      4.14

      390 ratings · 4027 works

    Editions

    • Edition cover

      Dover Publications

      2002

    • Edition cover

      Dover Publications, Incorporated

      2012

    • Edition cover

      Dover Publications

      2002