American Short Story Masterpieces

An affordable compilation of more than a dozen of the best American short stories features tales by Hawthorne, Twain, James, Cheever, Wharton, and Cather. Contents include "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat," and "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty.

Clarence C. Strowbridge has edited several books for Dover, including 100 Favorite English and Irish Poems and Isabella Bird's My First Travels in North America.

Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe The 1,000,000 Pound Bank-Note by Mark Twain The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James Xingu by Edith Wharton The Furnished Room by O. Henry The Open Boat by Stephen Crane A Wagner Matinee by Willa Cather The Golden Honeymoon by Ring Lardner The Diamond as Big as the Ritz by F. Scott Fitzgerald He by Katherine Anne Porter Dry September by William Faulkner A Worn Path by Eudora Welty The Enormous Radio by John Cheever