Title: Great American Short Stories [5 stories]
Description: The gift of the Magi / O. Henry
The open boat / Stephen Crane
To build a fire / Jack London
[An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge) / Ambrose Bierce
A village singer / Mary Wilkins Freeman
Subjects: American Short stories, American fiction, History, Fiction, United States Civil War, Classic Literature, Short Stories, hanging, Confederacy, Union, Juvenile audience, civil war, American Civil War, Confederate States of America
Places: United States, Alabama, Owl Creek Bridge
People: Peyton Farquhar
Time periods: 19th century, 1861-65