Great American Short Stories (Barnes & Noble Signature Editions) EPUB

From Washington Irving (17831859) to F. Scott Fitzgerald (18961940), the authors represented in this expansive American short story anthology invite you to see the world as they saw it.

Irvings culture-defining tales of American lifeThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkleoffer a turn of events that both surprises and chills the reader. In Bartleby, Herman Melville introduces us to a lawyer whose easy way of life is upended by a mysterious new clerk who denies his authority, perplexes his visitors, and scandalizes his professional reputation. The title character of Athnas, by Kate Chopin, is a new wife who rebels against the submissive role expected of her by her parents and husband. In Willa Cathers The Sculptors Funeral, a young man accompanies the body of his friend and mentor from New York to the renowned artists hometown where no one ever understood him. And Fitzgeralds The Diamond as Big as the Ritz reveals the treachery of a wealthy man protecting his fortune.

Also among the thirty-four stories included in this collection are Nathaniel Hawthornes Young Goodman Brown, Mark Twains The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Caleveras County, Bret Hartes The Outcasts of Poker Flat, Henry Jamess The Real Right Thing, Charlotte Perkins Gilmans The Yellow Wall-Paper, O. Henrys The Gift of the Magi, Stephen Cranes The Open Boat, and Sherwood Andersons The Egg.