Title: The American Short Story
Description: Contains:
The devil and Tom Walker, 1824 / Washington Irving	
[Rappaccini's daughter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455378W), 1844 / Nathaniel Hawthorne	
Hop-frog, 1849 / Edgar Allan Poe	
The outcasts of Poker Flat, 1869 / Bret Harte	
The courting of Sister Wisby, 1887 / Sarah Orne Jewett	
The revolt of "Mother", 1890 / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman	
A horseman in the sky, 1891 / Ambrose Bierce	
The 1,000,000 [pound] banknote, 1893 / Mark Twain	
[A pair of silk stockings](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078930W), 1897 / Kate Chopin	
The bride comes to Yellow Sky, 1898 / Stephen Crane	
A journey, 1899 / Edith Wharton	
The sculptor's funeral, 1905 / Willa Cather	
The ransom of Red Chief, 1907 / O. Henry	
The egg, 1920 / Sherwood Anderson	
Winter dreams, 1922 / F. Scott Fitzgerald	
Some like them cold, 1924 / Ring Lardner	
The greatest man in the world, 1931 / James Thurber	
A day's wait, 1933 / Ernest Hemingway	
The man who saw the flood, 1937 / Richard Wright	
Flight, 1938 / John Steinbeck	
A worn path, 1940 / Eudora Welty	
Holiday, 1960- / Katherine Anne Porter
Subjects: fiction, American short stories, short stories, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, short story, impulse, responsibility
Places: Padua, India, Italy, University of Padua
People: Giacomo Rappaccini, Giovanni Guasconti, Beatrice Rappaccini, Mrs. Sommers
Time periods: 19th century