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The $30,000 Bequest, and Other Stories

Mark Twain

The volume gathers a series of Mark Twain’s short, humor‑laden sketches of American life, and it opens in the…

Men without women

Ernest Hemingway

The work is a short‑story collection by Ernest Hemingway, presented here as a single, continuous narrative…

Selected Stories of Bret Harte

Bret Harte

Selected Stories of Bret Harte gathers the author’s most celebrated Western short fiction, a genre he helped…

Short stories from Life: The 81 prize stories in "Life's" Shortest Story Contest

The best short stories of 1915, and the yearbook of the American short story

This volume is a curated year‑book of American short fiction, gathering together the most distinguished…

Short Stories for High Schools

This volume presents a purpose‑driven anthology of short stories aimed at the high‑school classroom.

Whirligigs

O. Henry

Whirligigs is a turn‑of‑the‑century American short‑story collection that opens with a self‑conscious narrator…

In our time

Ernest Hemingway

The work is a collection of short stories that plunges the reader into a series of fragmented wartime scenes,…

The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 2

Edith Wharton

The volume gathers a selection of Edith Wharton’s early short stories, and it opens with a conversation among…

Picture frames

Thyra Samter Winslow

The work is a short‑fiction piece by Thyra Samter Winslow that opens with a vivid portrait of Emma Hooper, a…

The Figure in the Carpet

Henry James

The work is a short‑story collection that opens with a self‑conscious narrator recounting a recent commission…

Shadows and sunbeams: Being a second series of Fern leaves from Fanny's portfolio

Fanny Fern

The work is a collection of short stories and essays by Fanny Fern, published in 1854 as a second series of…

Short Stories for English Courses

This volume presents a thoughtfully assembled collection of short stories intended for high‑school readers,…

The snow-image, and other twice-told tales

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Snow‑Image, and Other Twice‑Told Tales gathers a handful of his early sketches and…

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne

This volume gathers eight of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s most celebrated short tales, each a self‑contained…

The Lock and Key Library: The most interesting stories of all nations: American

International Short Stories: American

American short stories: Selected and edited with an introductory essay on the short story by Charles Sears Baldwin

Three Stories & Ten Poems

Ernest Hemingway

Heart of the West [Annotated]

O. Henry

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O. Henry

The best stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, Volume 2 (of 2)

Sarah Orne Jewett

The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1

Edith Wharton

The collected stories of Elisabeth Sanxay Holding from Munsey's Magazine, 1920-1928

Elisabeth Sanxay Holding