The greatest American short stories
By: edited by A. Grove Day
Contributors: Bauer, William F. joint ed.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 1953
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
Subjects: Short stories, American
Table of contents: value: Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving; value: The ambitious guest / Nathaniel Hawthorne; value: The cask of Amontillado ; The purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe; value: The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain; value: The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte; value: The wonderful tar-baby story / Joel Chandler Harris; value: The lady or the tiger? / Frank R. Stockton; value: An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce; value: The open boat / Stephen Crane; value: The gift of the Magi / O. Henry; value: Paul's case / Willa Cather; value: The lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser; value: The fourth man / John Russell; value: I'm a fool / Sherwood Anderson; value: Haircut / Ring Lardner; value: The devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benét; value: The leader of the people / John Steinbeck; value: The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber; value: The bear / William Faulkner