100 Great American Short Stories: Bierce, Chopin, Crane, Hawthorne, Hemingway, London, Melville, Poe, Twain, Wharton & more

by John Grafton (editor)

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.

1043 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 15, 2020

Reviews

[Matthías Ólafsson]

Ég hoppaði yfir sumar sögur sem ég komst ekki alveg inn í og bara fílaði einfaldlega ekki. Það hefði líka mátt vera ártal með sögunum og jafnvel eitthvað um höfundana líka hverju sinni. Annars fannst mér eftirfarandi sögur frábærar:

A Night – Louisa May Alcott
The Untold Lie – Sherwood Anderson
The Night Came Slowly - Kate Chopin
Adventures of the German Student – Washington Irving
MS. Found in a Bottle – Edgar Allan Poe