Title: Great American Short Stories
Description: Contents: 	
Nathaniel Hawthorne: [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) (1835) --
Edgar Allan Poe: [The tell-tale heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) (1843) --
Herman Melville: [Bartleby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W) (1856) --
Bret Harte: The luck of Roaring Camp (1870) --
Stephen Crane: The bride comes to Yellow Sky (1878) --
Mark Twain: The private history of a campaign that failed (1885) --
Sarah Orne Jewett: A white heron (1886) --
Charles Waddell Chesnutt: The goophered grapevine (1887) --
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: A New England nun (1891) --
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The yellow wallpaper (1892) --
Henry James: The real thing (1893) --
Kate Chopin: [A pair of silk stockings](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078930W) (1897) --
Jack London: To build a fire (1908) --
Ambrose Bierce: [An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W) (1909) --
Theodore Dreiser: The lost phoebe (1916) --
Willa Cather: Paul's case (1920) --
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Bernice bobs her hair (1920) --
Sherwood Anderson: The egg (1921) --
Ernest Hemingway: The killers (1927)
Subjects: History, Fiction, United States Civil War, Classic Literature, Short Stories, hanging, Confederacy, Union, American Short stories, Social life and customs, impulse, responsibility, short story, Satanism, Puritans, catechism, Young men, Copyists, Psychology, Securities industry PEOPLE, Short stories, american, American Horror tales, American literature, Children's fiction, Crime, Crime fiction, Crime in fiction, Delitos, Detective and mystery stories, first-person narrative, Gothic fiction, Gothic fiction (literary genre), Homicide, Horror, Horror fiction, Horror stories, Horror tales, Hyperesthesia, Juvenile fiction, Murder, Murder in fiction
Places: United States, New England, Salem Village, Massachusetts, New York, Wall Street, Alabama, Owl Creek Bridge
People: Peyton Farquhar, Goodman Brown, Faith Brown, Goody Cloyse, Devil, Bartleby, Turkey, Nippers, Ginger Nut, John Jacob Astor, Cicero, Mrs. Sommers
Time periods: 1600s, 19th century, Civil War, 1861-1865, American Civil War, United States, Alabama, Owl Creek Bridge