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Classic American Short Stories

Barnes and Nobles Description :

Classic American Short Stories celebrates the perfection of the short story as a popular storytelling form in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America. This volume features the work of twenty-seven authors regarded as some of the most distinguished names in American belles lettres, among them Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edith Wharton, Henry James, Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, and H.P. Lovecraft. The fifty classic tales it collects include:

The Fall of the House of Usher — Edgar Allan Poe

Bartleby the Scrivener — Herman Melville

The Yellow Wall-Paper — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Gift of the Magi — O. Henry

A White Heron — Sarah Orne Jewett

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow — Washington Irving

Paul's Case — Willa Cather

Bernice Bobs Her Hair — F. Scott Fitzgerald

and many more

  • Format
  • leather bound
  • Pages
  • 800
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781435129122
  • Genres
  • classics, fiction, anthologies, collections
  • Release date
  • 2013