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

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· 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.Typical novel≈ 5 h 56 mGreat American Short Stories~9 h 28 m

How many pages is Great American Short Stories?

511 pages in its most-read edition.Typical novel320Great American Short Stories511

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.