Great American Short Stories e-bog

Featuring 19 of the finest works from the most distinguished writers in the American short-story tradition, this new compilation begins with Nathaniel Hawthornes 1835 tale Young Goodman Brown and ranges across an entire century, concluding with Ernest Hemingways 1927 classic, The Killers. Other selections include Poes The Tell-Tale Heart, Melvilles Bartleby, Hartes The Luck of Roaring Camp, To Build a Fire, by Jack London, The Real Thing by Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgeralds Bernice Bobs Her Hair, plus stories by Mark Twain, Sarah Orne Jewett, Charles Chesnutt, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Willa Cather, Ambrose Bierce, Theodore Dreiser, and others. Perfect for classroom use, this outstanding collection of tales will also prove popular with fiction readers everywhere.