An anthology of famous American stories

The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving

Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving

The great stone face / Nathaniel Hawthorne

Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne

The murders in the Rue Morgue / Edgar Allan Poe

The pit and the pendulum / Edgar Allan Poe

The purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe

Billy Budd, Foretopman / Herman Melville

The man without a country / Edward Everett Hale

The diamond lens / Fitz-James O'Brien

The lady, or the tiger? / Frank R. Stockton

The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain

The man that corrupted Hadleyburg / Mark Twain

Marjorie Daw / Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Editha / William Dean Howells

The outcasts of Poker Flat / Francis Bret Harte

An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce

The boarded window / Ambrose Bierce

The real thing / Henry James

The author of Beltraffio / Henry James

Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, and the tar baby / Joel Chandler Harris

The courting of Sister Wisby / Sarah Orne Jewett

The boy who drew cats / Lafcadio Hearn

The pearls of Loreto / Gertrude Atherton

The return of a private / Hamlin Garland

A New England nun / Mary E. Wilkins

The mission of Jane / Edith Wharton

The furnished room / O. Henry

A blackjack bargainer / O. Henry

A municipal report / O. Henry

The bar sinister / Richard Harding Davis

Effie Whittlesy / George Ade

"Little Gentlemen" / Booth Tarkington

A deal in wheat / Frank Norris

The open boat / Stephen Crane

The lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser

Big Dan Reilly / Harvey O'Higgins

The good Anna / Gertrude Stein

Paul's case / Willa Cather

To build a fire / Jack London

I'm a fool / Sherwood Anderson

The great pancake record / Owen Johnson

Porcelain cups / James Branch Cabell

Wild oranges / Joseph Hergesheimer

A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell

The afternoon of a faun / Edna Ferber

Some like them cold / Ring Lardner

The man who saw through heaven / Wilbur Daniel Steele

Tact / Thomas Beer

Silent snow, secret snow / Conrad Aiken

Big blonde / Dorothy Parker

The arrow / Christopher Morley

A cycle of Manhattan / Thyra Samter Winslow

Maria Concepcion / Katherine Anne Porter

The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber

The rich boy / F. Scott Fitzgerald

The body of an American / John Dos Passos

A rose for Emily / William Faulkner

The killers / Ernest Hemingway

The gambler, the nun, and the radio / Ernest Hemingway

The red pony / John Steinbeck

A portrait of Bascom Hawke / Thomas Wolfe

Night club / Katharine Brush

Kneel to the rising sun / Erskine Caldwell

Do you like it here? / John O'Hara

The daring young man on the flying trapeze / William Saroyan

The hitch-hikers / Eudora Welty

The portable phonograph / Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Act of faith / Irwin Shaw

My Christmas carol / Budd Schulberg

Pretty mouth and green eyes / J. D. Salinger.