A review by writesdave
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories by Langston Hughes, John Cheever, James Baldwin, Ernest Hemingway, Jack London, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ursula K. Le Guin, Washington Irving, Joyce Carol Oates, Willa Cather, Henry James, Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Updike, Saul Bellow, Eudora Welty, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Raymond Carver, Edith Wharton, Bernard Malamud, Katherine Anne Porter, William Carlos Williams, Flannery O'Connor, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Stephen Crane, Kate Chopin, Harriet Beecher Stowe

adventurous challenging dark funny sad tense slow-paced

4.75

Call it a 4.75, the meh stories overcome by the brilliant ones.