Great American Short Stories
About this book
Contains: Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Fall of the house of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- Bartleby the scrivener / Herman Melville -- Baker's bluejay yarn / Mark Twain -- Tennessee's partner / Bret Harte -- The real thing / Henry James -- The boarded window / Ambrose Bierce -- A village singer / Mary Wilkins Freeman -- Mrs.Ripley's trip / Hamlin Garland -- A muncipial report / O. Henry -- Roman fever / Edith Wharton -- The open boat / Stephen Crane -- Unlighted lamps / Sherwood Anderson -- The man who saw through heaven / Wilbur Daniel Steele -- Silent snow, secret snow / Conrad Aiken -- He / Katherine Anne Porter -- The catbird seat / James Thurber -- The little wife / William March -- Wash / William Faulkner -- The snake / John Steinbeck -- To the mountains / Paul Horgan -- Over the river and through the wood / John O'Hara -- The wind and the snow of winter / Walter Van Tilburg Clark -- Powerhouse / Eudora Welty -- In greenwich there are many gravelled walks / Hortense Calisher.
Reader Profile
· 511 pages · ≈ 9 h 28 m · Moderate
How long does it take to read Great American Short Stories?
About ≈ 9 h 28 m — 511 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is Great American Short Stories?
511 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is Great American Short Stories?
It sits on the Psychology, Short Stories, Horror shelves.
Is Great American Short Stories in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Who wrote Great American Short Stories?
Wallace Stegner.