num_pages: 576
description: Beginning with well-known stories by Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe, this diverse and colorful collection includes tales by Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Sherwood Anderson, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Stephen Crane, and Mary Wilkins Freeman. From Sarah Orne Jewett's portraits of rural Maine to F. Scott Fitzgerald's brilliant tales from the Jazz Age, these stories span the breadth of the American experience. In addition to acknowledged masters of the short story form, such as O. Henry, Jack London, and Ernest Hemingway, this volume features stories by Charles W. Chesnutt, the first important African-American novelist, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a leading theorist of the early women's movement.
language: English
title: Great American Short Stories: From Hawthorne to Hemingway
titlecomplete: Great American Short Stories: From Hawthorne to Hemingway
genres: Classics, American, Anthologies, Short Stories, Classic Literature, School, Historical Fiction, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 705
publisher: Barnes & Noble Classics