Title: Great American Short Stories
Description: Contains:
Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving --
[Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W/Young_Goodman_Brown) / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
[Fall of the house of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) / Edgar Allan Poe --
[Bartleby the scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W/Bartleby_the_Scrivener) / Herman Melville --
Baker's bluejay yarn / Mark Twain --
Tennessee's partner / Bret Harte --
The real thing / Henry James --
The boarded window / Ambrose Bierce --
A village singer / Mary Wilkins Freeman --
Mrs.Ripley's trip / Hamlin Garland --
A muncipial report / O. Henry --
Roman fever / Edith Wharton --
The open boat / Stephen Crane --
Unlighted lamps / Sherwood Anderson --
The man who saw through heaven / Wilbur Daniel Steele --
Silent snow, secret snow / Conrad Aiken --
He / Katherine Anne Porter --
The catbird seat / James Thurber --
The little wife / William March --
[Wash](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16245840W/Wash) / William Faulkner --
The snake / John Steinbeck --
To the mountains / Paul Horgan --
Over the river and through the wood / John O'Hara --
The wind and the snow of winter / Walter Van Tilburg Clark --
Powerhouse / Eudora Welty --
In greenwich there are many gravelled walks / Hortense Calisher.
Subjects: American fiction, short stories, American Horror tales, burial vaults, catalepsy, dragons, Fiction, gothic fiction, hermitages, heroic romances, horror, horror tales, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, tarns, Satanism, short story, Puritans, catechism, Devil, Children's fiction, Boys, Young men, Copyists, classic literature, Psychology, Securities industry, history and criticism, Social life and customs, United States in fiction, American Short stories, Short stories, american
Places: United States, New York, Wall Street, New England, Salem Village, Massachusetts
People: Colonel Sutpen, Milly, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Goodman Brown, Faith Brown, Goody Cloyse, Devil, Bartleby, Turkey, Nippers, Ginger Nut, John Jacob Astor, Cicero
Time periods: 1600s