From: 100 Great American Short Stories
 
 
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Table of Contents
 
George Ade (1866–1944)

Effie Whittlesy

 
Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888)

A Night

A Forward Movement

 
Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941)

The Other Woman

Brothers

Unlighted Lamps

The Untold Lie

Paper Pills

 
Djuna Barnes (1892–1982)

A Night Among the Horses

 
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914?)

The Damned Thing

The Boarded Window

My Favorite Murder

The Eyes of the Panther

The Moonlit Road

John Bartine’s Watch

 
Emma E. Butler (unknown)

Polly’s Hack Ride (from The Crisis, June 1916)

 
Willa Cather (1873–1947)

Lou, the Prophet

The Namesake

On the Gulls’ Road

 
Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858–1932)

The Wife of His Youth

 
Kate Chopin (1850–1904)

Madame Célestin’s Divorce

The Dream of an Hour

A Respectable Woman

The Locket 

The Night Came Slowly

Regret

 
Stephen Crane (1871–1900)

The Open Boat

The Blue Hotel

A Mystery of Heroism

An Episode of War

A Dark-Brown Dog

 
Clarence Day (1874–1935)

Father Is Firm with His Ailments

 
Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945)

The Lost Phoebe

 
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963)

Jesus Christ in Texas

 
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)

The Scapegoat

 
Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1875–1935)

A Carnival Jangle

 
Jessie Fauset (1882–1961)

Mary Elizabeth

 
Edna Ferber (1885–1968)

The Gay Old Dog

Roast Beef, Medium

 
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

The Smilers

Tarquin of Cheapside

Babes in the Woods

 
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852–1930)

The Revolt of “Mother”

Old Woman Magoun

One Good Time

A Village Singer

 
Hamlin Garland (1860–1940)

Mrs. Ripley’s Trip

A Day’s Pleasure

 
Susan Glaspell (1876–1948)

A Jury of Her Peers

 
Bret Harte (1836–1902)

The Outcasts of Poker Flat

Tennessee’s Partner

An Ingénue of the Sierras

 
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)

The Minister’s Black Veil

The Wives of the Dead

The Ambitious Guest

David Swan

 
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

Up in Michigan

Out of Season

My Old Man

 
O. Henry (1862–1910)

The Cop and the Anthem

The Ransom of Red Chief

Masters of Arts

A Municipal Report

A Newspaper Story

 
William Dean Howells (1837–1920)

Editha

 
Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

Sweat

 
Washington Irving (1783–1859)

Adventure of the German Student

The Widow and Her Son

 
Henry James (1843–1916)

Brooksmith

The Two Faces

 
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909)

The Courting of Sister Wisby

 
 Nella Larsen (1891–1964)

Sanctuary

 
Mary Lerner (1882–1938)

Little Selves

 
Jack London (1876–1916)

To the Man on Trail

In a Far Country

To Build a Fire

The Law of Life

 
Herman Melville (1819–1891)

The Happy Failure

The Bell-Tower

The Fiddler

 
Fitz-James O’Brien (1826–1862)

What Was It?

 
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

MS. Found in a Bottle

The Oblong Box

The Fall of the House of Usher

The Black Cat

The Pit and the Pendulum

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

The Gold-Bug

 
Benjamin Rosenblatt (1880–1964)

Zelig

 
Frank Stockton (1834–1902)

The Philosophy of Relative Existences

 
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)

The Ghost in the Mill

 
Jean Toomer (1894–1967)

Blood-Burning Moon

Becky

 
 Mark Twain (1835–1910)

Luck

Baker’s Bluejay Yarn

 
Edith Wharton (1862–1937)

The Other Two

The Muse’s Tragedy

A Journey

The Dilettante

 
 
 
 
 
 
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