The Penguin Book of American Short Stories by Washington Irving, Ernest Hemingway, Ambrose Bierce, Herman Melville, Jack London, John Updike, Henry James, Sherwood Anderson, Katherine Anne Porter, O. Henry, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Cochrane, Willa Cather, Edgar Allan Poe, Truman Capote, Bernard Malamud, Ring Lardner, Stephen Crane, William Faulkner, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bret Harte

The Penguin Book of American Short Stories
Washington Irving, Ernest Hemingway, Ambrose Bierce, Herman Melville, Jack London, John Updike, Henry James, Sherwood Anderson, Katherine Anne Porter, O. Henry, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Cochrane, Willa Cather, Edgar Allan Poe, Truman Capote, Bernard Malamud, Ring Lardner, Stephen Crane, William Faulkner, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bret Harte

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'American literature and the short story might be said to have come of age at about the same time, and this, along with something in the bustling and energetic American temperament, might go some way towards explaining why the two go together as w...