Great American Short Stories

About this book

Contents: Nathaniel Hawthorne: Young Goodman Brown (1835) -- Edgar Allan Poe: The tell-tale heart (1843) -- Herman Melville: Bartleby (1856) -- Bret Harte: The luck of Roaring Camp (1870) -- Stephen Crane: The bride comes to Yellow Sky (1878) -- Mark Twain: The private history of a campaign that failed (1885) -- Sarah Orne Jewett: A white heron (1886) -- Charles Waddell Chesnutt: The goophered grapevine (1887) -- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: A New England nun (1891) -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The yellow wallpaper (1892) -- Henry James: The real thing (1893) -- Kate Chopin: A pair of silk stockings (1897) -- Jack London: To build a fire (1908) -- Ambrose Bierce: An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1909) -- Theodore Dreiser: The lost phoebe (1916) -- Willa Cather: Paul's case (1920) -- F. Scott Fitzgerald: Bernice bobs her hair (1920) -- Sherwood Anderson: The egg (1921) -- Ernest Hemingway: The killers (1927)

Reader Profile

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· 248 pages · ≈ 4 h 36 m · Moderate

How long does it take to read Great American Short Stories?

About ≈ 4 h 36 m — 248 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.Typical novel≈ 5 h 56 mGreat American Short Stories~4 h 36 m

How many pages is Great American Short Stories?

248 pages in its most-read edition.Typical novel320Great American Short Stories248

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?

Paul Negri.