200 years of great American short stories / edited by Martha Foley. [print]

A pretty story Francis Hopkinson -- Rip Van Winkle Washington Irving -- Peter Rugg, the missing man William Austin -- The grey champion Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The big bear of Arkansas T. B. Thorpe -- The cask of Amontillado Edgar Allan Poe -- Bartleby the scrivener Herman Melville -- Tennessee's partner Bret Harte -- Captain Kidd's money Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Marjorie Daw Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- The lady or the tiger? Frank Stockton -- Over on t'other mounting Charles Egbert Cradock -- The revolt of mother Mary Wilkins Freeman -- One of the missing Ambrose Bierce -- The return of a pirate Hamlin Garland -- The real thing /. Henry James -- The courting of Sister Wisby Sarah Orne Jewett -- The open boat Stephen Crane -- The man that corrupted Hadleyburg Samuel Langhorne Clemens -- The furnished room O. Henry -- To build a fire Jack London -- The strength of god and the teacher Sherwood Anderson -- The diamond as big as the Ritz F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Haircut Ring Lardner -- Double birthday Willa Cather -- Spring evening James T. Farrell -- Masses of men Erskine Caldwell -- The guilded six-bits Zora Neale Hurston -- Silent snow, secret snow Conrad Aiken -- An odor of verbena William Faulkner -- The daring young man on the flying trapeze William Saroyan -- The snows of Kilimanjaro Ernest Hemingway -- A tooth for Paul Revere Stephen Vincent Benet -- Noon wine Katherine Anne Porter -- The leader of the people John Steinbeck -- Lily Daw and the three ladies Eudora Welty -- Fire and cloud Richard Wright -- The patterns of love William Maxwell -- The ballad of the Sad Cafe Carson McCullers -- Cass Mastern's wedding ring Robert Penn Warren -- The wedding: Beacon Hill Jean Stafford -- Rain in the heart Peter Taylor -- Gunners' passage Irwin Shaw -- The lottery Shirley Jackson -- February 1999: Ylla Ray Bradbury -- The country husband John Cheever -- A good man is hard to find Flannery O'Connor -- The mexican girl Jack Kerouac -- The Pedersen kid William H. Gas -- Seven say you can hear corn grow Kay Boyle -- Where are you going, where have you been? Joyce Carol Oates -- Tell me how long the train's been gone James Baldwin -- Son John Updike -- Yellow woman Leslie Silko.

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