Title: Great American Short Stories [34 stories]
Description: Contains:
Winter Dreams
What Stumped the Bluejays
To Build a Fire
A Jury of Her Peers
The Storm
The Pioneer Hep-Cat
The Furnished Room
I Can’t Breathe
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
A New England Nun
The Chrysanthemums
[Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W)
The Man Who Saw the Flood
[Barn Burning](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20080279W/Barn_Burning)
The Yellow Wall Paper
Hook
The Key
The Shore Line at Sunset
The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown
Coroner’s Inquest
Roman Fever
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
The Last Gas Station
The Fifty-First Dragon
Sir Edmund Orme
The Daemon Lover
The Blue Hotel
You’ll Never Know, Eear, How Much I Love You
The Beauty
The Devil and Daniel Webster
Winter Night
[Bartleby the Scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W/Bartleby_the_Scrivener)
Christmas is a Sad Season for the Poor
The Boarded Window
Jug of silver / Truman Capote --	
Night club / Katharine Brush --	
The lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser --	
[The most dangerous game](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5278311W) / Richard Connell --	
The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud --	
If Grant had been drinking at Appomattox / James Thurber --	
The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving --	
The music of Erich Zann / H.P. Lovecraft --	
Enoch and the gorilla / Flannery O'Connor --	
The untold lie / Sherwood Anderson --	
Horse thief / Erskine Caldwell --	
The haunted boy / Carson McCullers --	
The valiant woman / J.F. Powers --	
The minister's wife / Nathaniel Hawthorne --	
The rockpile / James Baldwin --	
The enchanted bluff / Willa Cather --	
O how she laughed / Conrad Aiken.
Subjects: Fiction, Hunting, Islands, survival of the fittest, animal trapping, trapping pits, knouts, hunting dogs, Cossacks, deaf-mutes, snow leopards, jaguars, Juvenile fiction, Hunting stories, Juvenile works, Human hunting, Big game sport, Travel fiction, American Horror tales, American literature, Children's fiction, Classic Literature, Crime, Crime fiction, Detective and mystery stories, first-person narrative, Gothic fiction, Homicide, Horror, Horror fiction, Horror stories, Horror tales, Hyperesthesia, Murder, short stories, Social life and customs, American Short stories, class conflict, Young men, Copyists, Psychology, Securities industry, Manners and customs
Places: Justice of the Peace Court, New York, Wall Street, Caribbean, Amazon rainforest, Ship-Trap Island, Tibet
People: Sanger Rainsford, General Zaroff, Whitney, Ivan, The Great White Czar, Sartoris Snopes, Abner Snopes, Lennie Snopes, Lizzie, Major de Spain, Mr. Harris, Bartleby, Turkey, Nippers, Ginger Nut, John Jacob Astor, Cicero
Time periods: 19th century, 20th century