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