Title: The bedside book of famous American stories
Description: The legend of Sleepy Hollow ; Rip Van Winkle / by Washington Irving -- The great stone face ; Rappaccini's daughter : from the writings of Aubépine / by Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The murders in the Rue Morgue ; The pit and the pendulum ; The purloined letter / by Edgar Allan Poe -- Billy Budd, foretopman : what befell him in the year of the great mutiny / by Herman Melville -- The man without a country / by Edward Everett Hale -- The diamond lens / by Fitz-James O'Brien -- The lady or the tiger? / by Frank R. Stockton -- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County ; The man that corrupted Hadleyburg / by Mark Twain -- Marjorie Daw / by Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- Editha / by William Dean Howells -- The outcasts of Poker Flat / by Francis Bret Harte -- An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge ; The boarded window / by Ambrose Bierce -- The real thing ; The author of Beltraffio / by Henry James -- Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, and the tar baby : an Uncle Remus story / by Joel Chandler Harris -- The courting of Sister Wisby / by Sarah Orne Jewett -- The boy who drew cats / by Lafcadio Hearn -- The pearls of Loreto / by Gertrude Atherton -- The return of a private / by Hamlin Garland -- A New England nun / by Mary E. Wilkins -- The mission of Jane / by Edith Wharton -- The furnished room ; A blackjack bargainer ; A municipal report / by O. Henry -- The bar sinister / by Richard Harding Davis -- Effie Whittlesy / by George Ade -- Little gentleman / by Booth Tarkington -- A deal in wheat / by Frank Norris.
The open boat : a tale intended to be after the fact, being the experience of four men from the sunk steamer "Commodore" / by Stephen Crane -- The lost Phoebe / by Theodore Dreiser -- Big Dan Reilly / by Harvey O'Higgins -- The good Anna / by Gertrude Stein -- Paul's case / by Willa Cather -- To build a fire / by Jack London -- I'm a fool ; I want to know why / by Sherwood Anderson -- The great pancake record / by Owen Johnson -- Porcelain cups : 30 May, 1593 / by James Branch Cabell -- Vain oblations / by Katharine Fullerton Gerould -- The murder on Jefferson Street / by Dorothy Canfield -- Wild oranges / by Joseph Hergesheimer -- A jury of her peers / by Susan Glaspell -- The afternoon of a faun / by Edna Ferber -- Some like them cold ; The golden honeymoon / by Ring Lardner -- The man who saw through heaven / by Wilbur Daniel Steele -- Tact / by Thomas Beer -- Silent snow, secret snow / by Conrad Aiken -- Big blonde / by Dorothy Parker -- The arrow / by Christopher Morley -- A cycle of Manhattan / by Thyra Samter Winslow -- The little girl from town / by Ruth Suckow -- The rich boy / by F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The body of an American / by John Dos Passos -- A rose for Emily / by William Faulkner -- The killers ; The gambler, the nun, and the radio / by Ernest Hemingway -- A portrait of Bascom Hawke / by Thomas Wolfe -- Night club / by Katharine Brush -- Kneel to the rising sun / by Erskine Caldwell -- The daring young man on the flying trapeze / by William Saroyan.
Subjects: American Short stories, Fiction, Short stories, Social life and customs
Places: United States