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100 Great American Short Stories

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Table of contents
  • Cover1
  • Title Page3
  • Copyright Page4
  • Note5
  • Contents6
  • Effie Whittlesy7
  • A Night10
  • A Forward Movement16
  • The Other Woman19
  • Brothers22
  • Unlighted Lamps25
  • The Untold Lie32
  • Paper Pills34
  • A Night Among the Horses35
  • The Damned Thing38
  • The Boarded Window42
  • My Favorite Murder44
  • The Eyes of the Panther47
  • The Moonlit Road51
  • John Bartine’s Watch55
  • Polly’s Hack Ride (from The Crisis, June 1916)58
  • Lou, the Prophet59
  • The Namesake62
  • On the Gulls’ Road67
  • The Wife of His Youth73
  • Madame Célestin’s Divorce77
  • The Dream of an Hour78
  • A Respectable Woman79
  • The Locket80
  • The Night Came Slowly82
  • Regret83
  • The Open Boat84
  • The Blue Hotel93
  • A Mystery of Heroism103
  • An Episode of War107
  • A Dark-Brown Dog109
  • Father Is Firm with His Ailments112
  • The Lost Phoebe114
  • Jesus Christ in Texas120
  • The Scapegoat124
  • A Carnival Jangle129
  • Mary Elizabeth130
  • The Gay Old Dog134
  • Roast Beef, Medium142
  • The Smilers146
  • Tarquin of Cheapside149
  • Babes in the Woods152
  • The Revolt of “Mother”155
  • Old Woman Magoun161
  • One Good Time168
  • A Village Singer175
  • Mrs. Ripley’s Trip180
  • A Day’s Pleasure185
  • A Jury of Her Peers188
  • The Outcasts of Poker Flat196
  • Tennessee’s Partner200
  • An Ingénue of the Sierras204
  • The Minister’s Black Veil210
  • The Wives of the Dead215
  • The Ambitious Guest218
  • David Swan221
  • Up in Michigan224
  • Out of Season226
  • My Old Man229
  • The Cop and the Anthem234
  • The Ransom of Red Chief237
  • Masters of Arts241
  • A Municipal Report246
  • A Newspaper Story252
  • Editha253
  • Sweat259
  • Adventure of the German Student264
  • The Widow and Her Son267
  • Brooksmith270
  • The Two Faces277
  • The Courting of Sister Wisby283
  • Sanctuary289
  • Little Selves291
  • War296
  • To the Man on Trail298
  • In a Far Country302
  • To Build a Fire308
  • The Law of Life314
  • The Happy Failure317
  • The Bell-Tower320
  • The Fiddler326
  • What Was It?329
  • MS. Found in a Bottle334
  • The Oblong Box338
  • The Fall of the House of Usher343
  • The Black Cat350
  • The Pit and the Pendulum354
  • The Murders in the Rue Morgue360
  • The Gold-Bug374
  • Zelig387
  • The Philosophy of Relative Existences390
  • The Ghost in the Mill393
  • Blood-Burning Moon398
  • Becky402
  • Luck403
  • Baker’s Bluejay Yarn405
  • The Other Two407
  • The Muse’s Tragedy415
  • A Journey421
  • The Dilettante425
  • Backmatter431
Book details
  • Vendor Dover Publications
  • SKU 9780486847597
  • ISBN-13 9780486847597
  • Category Fiction
  • Subject Anthologies (multiple authors)

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This celebration of America's literary legacy, a companion volume to Dover's 100 Great Short Stories, offers students and other readers a superb selection of short fiction by master storytellers. Contributors include Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, O. Henry, Willa Cather, Washington Irving, Henry James, Edgar Allan Poe, Louisa May Alcott, and many others. The stories are arranged alphabetically by author. Selections from American literature of the nineteenth century include Herman Melville's "The Fiddler," Bret Harte's "The Outcasts of Poker Flat," "Adventure of the German Student" by Washington Irving, Ambrose Bierce's "The Eyes of the Panther," "The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane, and Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Ambitious Guest." More recent stories include Djuna Barnes' "A Night Among the Horses," Ernest Hemingway's "Up in Michigan," Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat," "To Build a Fire" by Jack London, Theodore Dreiser's "The Lost Phoebe," and "Jesus Christ in Texas" by W. E. B. Du Bois.