An Anthology of Famous American Stories
Table of Contents

Ade, George Effie Whittlesy
Aiken, Conrad Silent Snow, Secret Snow
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey Marorie Daw
Anderson, Sherwood I'm a Fool
Anderson, Sherwood I Want to Know Why
Atherton, Gertrude The Pearls of Loreto
Beer, Thomas Tact
Bierce, Ambrose An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Bierce, Ambrose The Boarded Window
Brush, Katharine Night Club
Cabell, James Branch Porcelain Cups
Caldwell, Erskine Kneel to the Rising Sun
Cather, Willa Paul's Case
Clark, Walter Van Tilburg The Portable Phonograph
Crane, Stephen The Open Boat
Davis, Richard Harding The Bar Sinister
Dos Passos, John The Body of an American
Dreiser, Theodore The Lost Phoebe
Faulkner, William A Rose for Emily
Ferber, Edna The Afternoon of a Faun
Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Rich Boy
Garland, Hamlin The Return of a Private
Glaspell, Susan A Jury of Her Peers
Hale, Edward Everett The Man Without a Country
Harris, Joel Chandler Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, and the Tar Baby
Hart, Francis Bret The Outcasts of Poker flats
Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Great Stone Face
Hawthorne, Nathaniel Rappaccini's Daughter
Hearn, Lafcadio The BoyWho Drew Cats
Hemingway, Ernest The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio
Hemingway, Ernest The Killers
Henry, O. The Furnished Room
Henry, O. A Blackjack Bargainer
Henry, O. A Municipal Report
Hergesheimer, Joseph Wild Oranges
Howells, William Dean Editha
Irving, Washington The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Irving, Washington Rip Van Winkle
James, Henry The Real Thing
James, Henry The Author of Beltraffio
Jewett, Sarah Orne The Courting of Sister Wisby
Johnson, Owen The Great Pancake Record
Lardner, Ring Some Like Them Cold
Lardner, Ring The Golden Honeymoon
London, Jack To Build a Fire
Melville, Herman Billy Budd, Foretopman
Morley, Christopher The Arrow
Norris, Frank A Deal in Wheat
O'Brien, Fitz-James The Diamond Lens
O'Hara, John Do You Like It Here?
O'Higgins, Harvey Big Dan Reilly
Parker, Dorothy Big Blonde
Poe, Edgar Allan The Morders in the Rue Morgue
Poe, Edgar Allan The Pit and the Pendulum
Poe, Edgar Allan The Purloined Letter
Porter, Katherine Anne Maria Conception
Salinger, J.D. Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes
Saroyan, William The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze
Schulberg, Budd My Christmas Carol
Shaw, Irwin Act of Faith
Steele, Wilbur Daniel The Man Who Saw Through Heaven
Stein, Gertrude The Good Anna
Steinbeck, John The Red Pony
Stockton, Frank R. The Lady, or the Tiger?
Tarkington, Booth "Little Gentlemen"
Thurber, James The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Twain, Mark The Celebrated Jumpin Frog of Calaveras County
Twain, Mark The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
Welty, Eudora The Hitch-Hikers
Wharton, Edith The Mission of Jane
Wilkins, Mary E. A New England Nun
Winslow, Thyra Samter A Cycle of Manhattan
Wolfe, Thomas A Portrait of Bascom Hawke