Introduction by Corinne Demas; Editor's Note; GREAT AMERICAN SHORT STORIES -- Young Goodman Brown, The Birthmark, Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne; The Cask of Amontillado, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe; Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville; The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain); An Occurrence of Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce; My Friend Bingham, The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James; A White Heron, The Flight of Betsey Lane by Sarah Orne Jewett; A New England Nun, The Revolt of "Mother" by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; The Wife of His Youth, The Passing of Grandison by Charles W. Chesnutt; The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman; The Gift of the Magi, the Ranson of Red Chief by William Sydney Porter; The Other Two by Edith Wharton; The Open Boat, The Blue Hotel by Stephen Crane; To Build a Fire by Jack London; Hands, The Untold Lie by Sherwood Anderson; Paul's Case by Willa Cather; Bernice Bobs Her Hair, Winter Dreams by F. Scott Fitzgerald; The End of Something by Ernest Hemingway; Afterwords: Two Classic Essays on the Short Story - Review of "Twice-Told Tales," by Edgar Allan Poe and "The Philosophy of the Short-Story," by Brander Matthews; Biographical Sketches of the Authors; For Further Reading
