The Penguin Book of American Short Stories

This collection offers twenty-one stories from the literature of America, a nation which has always been particularly at home in this form, and which has produced many of its masters.

Some of the stories included — those by Poe, James and Hemingway for example — are already widely known. Some will be less familiar to the English reader. Taken as a whole, The Penguin Book of American Short Stories is an excellent and entertaining introduction to the rich diversity of pleasures that the American short story at its best can offer.

Contents:

- The legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

- Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne

- The fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe

- Bartleby by Herman Melville

- The man that corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain

- The outcasts of Poker Flat by Francis Bret Harte

- One of the missing by Ambrose Bierce

- The real thing by Henry James

- An unfinished story by O. Henry

- The bride comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane

- Neighbor Rosicky by Willa Cather

- To build a fire by Jack London

- Death in the woods by Sherwood Anderson

- Who dealt? by Ring Lardner

- Flowering Judas by Katherine Anne Porter

- The rich boy by F. Scott Fitzgerald

- Delta autumn by William Faulkner

- The battler by Ernest Hemingway

- The jewbird by Bernard Malamud

- Children on their birthdays by Truman Capote

- Wife-wooing by John Updike