Great American short stories

Winter dreams / F. Scott Fitzgerald.

What stumped the bluejays / Mark Twain.

To build a fire / Jack London.

A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell.

The storm / Jesse Stuart.

The pioneer hep-cat / John O'Hara.

The furnished room / O. Henry.

I can't breathe / Ring Lardner.

The short happy life of Francis Macomber / Ernest Hemingway.

A New England nun / Mary E. Wilkins.

The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck.

The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe.

The man who saw the flood / Richard Wright.

Barn burning / William Faulkner.

The yellow wall paper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

Hook / Walter Van Tilburg Clark.

The key / Eudora Welty.

The shore line at sunset / Ray Bradbury.

The idyll of Miss Sarah Brown / Damon Runyon.

Coroner's inquest / Marc Connelly.

Roman fever / Edith Wharton.

The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte.

The last gas station / Shirley Ann Grau.

The fifty-first dragon / Heywood Broun.

Sir Edmund Orme / Henry James.

The daemon lover / Shirley Jackson.

The blue hotel / Stephen Crane.

You'll never know, dear, how much I love you / John Updike.

The beauty / Pearl S. Buck.

The devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benét.

Winter night / Kay Boyle.

Bartleby the scrivener / Herman Melville.

Christmas is a sad season for the poor / John Cheever.

The boarded window / Ambrose Bierce.

Jug of silver / Truman Capote.

Night club / Katharine Brush.

The lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser.

The most dangerous game / Richard Connell.

The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud.

If Grant had been drinking at Appomattox / James Thurber.

The legend of Sleepy Hollow/ Washington Irving.

The music of Erich Zann / H. P. Lovecraft.

Enoch and the gorilla / Flannery O'Connor.

The untold lie / Sherwood Anderson.

Horse thief / Erksine Caldwell.

The haunted boy / Carson McCullers.

The valiant woman / J. F. Powers.

The minister's black veil / Nathaniel Hawthorne.

The rockpile / James Baldwin.

The enchanted bluff / Willa Cather.

O how she laughed! / Conrad Aiken.