The best of American short fiction Spanning over 100 years of literary history, here are 33 of the finest short stories by:
- Washington Irving
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Herman Melville
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Bret Harte
- Bayard Taylor
- Rose Terry Cooke
- Ambrose Bierce
- Hamlin Garland
- Mary E. Wilkens Freeman
- Henry James
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Sarah Orne Jewett
- Grace Elizabeth King
- Harold Frederic
- Kate Chopin
- Stephen Crane
- Edith Wharton
- Mark Twain
- Jack London
- F. Hopkinson Smith
- Zona Gale
- O. Henry
- Sherwood Anderson
- Ernest Hemingway
- John Dos Passos
- Stephen Vincent Benet
- Willa Cather
- William Faulkner
- James Thurber
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- William Saroyan
