Signet Classic Book of America

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

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