American Short Stories

Bret Harte, Sarah Orne Jewett, Charles Chesnutt and Fitzgerald — the American short story from frontier to city.

• The Lady, or the Tiger? Frank R. Stockton
• The Best Short Stories of 1917 Edward J. O’Brien
• Lost Face Jack London
• Mrs. Spring Fragrance Sui Sin Far
• The Piazza Tales Herman Melville
• The Conjure Woman Charles W. Chesnutt
• In Our Time (1924) Ernest Hemingway
• Roads of Destiny O. Henry
• Whirligigs O. Henry
• Tales of the Jazz Age F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Love of Life and Other Stories Jack London
• Tales of a Traveller Washington Irving
• The Snow-Image and Other Twice-Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Best Short Stories of 1921 Edward J. O’Brien
• The Figure in the Carpet Henry James
• Flappers and Philosophers F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line Charles W. Chesnutt
• The Troll Garden and Selected Stories Willa Cather
• Stories, Reviews and Essays Willa Cather
• Selected Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Descent of Man and Other Stories Edith Wharton
• The Great Stone Face and Other Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Best Short Stories of 1918 Edward J. O’Brien
• Sixes and Sevens O. Henry
• Brown Wolf and Other Stories Jack London
• Bayou Folk Kate Chopin
• Cabbages and Kings O. Henry
• Strictly Business O. Henry
• Short Stories from Life Thomas L. Masson
• The Strength of the Strong Jack London
• All the Sad Young Men F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Man Without a Country and Other Tales Edward Everett Hale
• Options O. Henry
• The Story of the Other Wise Man Henry van Dyke
• The Voice of the City O. Henry
• Heart of the West O. Henry
• The Brick Moon and Other Stories Edward Everett Hale
• Rolling Stones O. Henry
• A Modern Cinderella Louisa May Alcott
• When God Laughs Jack London
• Tales of Men and Ghosts Edith Wharton
• The Gentle Grafter O. Henry
• Children of the Frost Jack London
• Moon-Face Jack London
• Friendship Village Zona Gale
• Sundry Accounts Irvin S. Cobb
• The Night-Born Jack London
• Earth’s Holocaust Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Red One Jack London
• Tales from Two Hemispheres Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
• The Son of the Wolf Jack London
• The Certain Hour James Branch Cabell
• The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories Paul Laurence Dunbar
• The Goodness of St. Rocque Alice Dunbar-Nelson
• Buttered Side Down Edna Ferber
• Some Short Stories Henry James
• The Monster and Other Stories Stephen Crane
• Youth and the Bright Medusa Willa Cather
• The Burial of the Guns Thomas Nelson Page
• O. Henry Prize Stories of 1921 Blanche Colton Williams
• The Lion and the Unicorn Richard Harding Davis
• O. Henry Prize Stories of 1927 Blanche Colton Williams
• Different Girls W. D. Howells
• Balcony Stories Grace King
• Men, Women, and Boats Stephen Crane
• The Magic Egg and Other Stories Frank R. Stockton
• The Village Watch-Tower Kate Douglas Wiggin
• The Ruling Passion Henry van Dyke
• Under the Redwoods Bret Harte
• Children of Loneliness Anzia Yezierska
• The Copy-Cat and Other Stories Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
• The Blue Flower Henry van Dyke
• South Sea Tales Jack London
• Deephaven and Selected Stories and Sketches Sarah Orne Jewett
• Tales of the Fish Patrol Jack London
• A Country Doctor and Selected Stories Sarah Orne Jewett
• Ladies-in-Waiting Kate Douglas Wiggin
• O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 Blanche Colton Williams
• Romance of California Life John Habberton
• The God of His Fathers Jack London
• Episodes in Van Bibber’s Life Richard Harding Davis
• The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories Gertrude Atherton
• Cheerful—By Request Edna Ferber
• A Night in Acadie Kate Chopin
• The Under Dog F. Hopkinson Smith
• The Diary of a Man of Fifty Henry James
• Three Lives Gertrude Stein
• Old Creole Days George Washington Cable
• Wall Street Stories Edwin Lefevre
• The Faith of Men Jack London
• The Apple-Tree Table and Other Sketches Herman Melville
• From a Bench in Our Square Samuel Hopkins Adams
• Not Pretty, but Precious, and Other Stories Various
• Danger Signals John A. Hill
• The Triumph of the Egg Sherwood Anderson
• Dutch Courage and Other Stories Jack London
• The Man of Adamant Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Between the Dark and the Daylight William Dean Howells
• The Greater Inclination Edith Wharton
• Free and Other Stories Theodore Dreiser
• The Red Cross Girl Richard Harding Davis
• Wolfert’s Roost Washington Irving
• A Deal in Wheat Frank Norris
• Where the Pavement Ends John Russell
• The Wolf’s Long Howl Stanley Waterloo
• Homespun Tales Kate Douglas Wiggin
• The Book of the American Indian Hamlin Garland
• Chains Theodore Dreiser
• On the Makaloa Mat Jack London
• The Lake Gun James Fenimore Cooper
• Cinderella and Other Stories Richard Harding Davis
• One Basket Edna Ferber
• Taking Chances Clarence Louis Cullen
• Silver Pitchers Louisa May Alcott
• O. Henry Prize Stories of 1919 Blanche Colton Williams
• On Picket Duty and Other Tales Louisa May Alcott
• Padre Ignacio Owen Wister
• Half Portions Edna Ferber
• The Parenticide Club Ambrose Bierce
• Betty’s Bright Idea and Other Christmas Stories Harriet Beecher Stowe
• The House of Pride Jack London
• The Frontiersmen Charles Egbert Craddock
• Humoresque Fannie Hurst
• Hell Fer Sartain and Other Stories John Fox Jr.
• Van Bibber and Others Richard Harding Davis
• Stories in Light and Shadow Bret Harte
• Sandburrs Alfred Henry Lewis
• The Turtles of Tasman Jack London
• Twenty Tales by Twenty Women Anonymous
• Pencil Sketches Eliza Leslie
• Lessons in Life T. S. Arthur
• The Eternal Masculine Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
• Miss Mink’s Soldier and Other Stories Alice Hegan Rice
• O. Henry Encore O. Henry
• A Mountain Woman Elia W. Peattie
• A Bundle of Letters Henry James
• The Prophetic Pictures Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The New Adam and Eve Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Somewhere in France Richard Harding Davis
• Christmas Eve on Lonesome and Other Stories John Fox Jr.
• Aunt Jane of Kentucky Eliza Calvert Hall
• Marjorie Daw Thomas Bailey Aldrich
• Rodman the Keeper Constance Fenimore Woolson
• Across the Years Eleanor H. Porter
• The Deserter Richard Harding Davis
• The May Flower Harriet Beecher Stowe
• In a Little Town Rupert Hughes
• In the Arena Booth Tarkington
• A Son of the Gods and A Horseman in the Sky Ambrose Bierce
• The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh Bret Harte
• Mother Owen Wister
• An Old Woman’s Tale Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Every Soul Hath Its Song Fannie Hurst
• The Valley of Vision Henry van Dyke
• Elder Conklin and Other Stories Frank Harris
• The Spinners’ Book of Fiction The Spinners’ Club
• Lady Barbarina and Other Tales Henry James
• The Angel Over the Right Shoulder Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
• A Charmed Life Richard Harding Davis
• Lifted Masks Susan Glaspell
• Tales of the Chesapeake George Alfred Townsend
• Back to God’s Country and Other Stories James Oliver Curwood
• Wounds in the Rain Stephen Crane
• Finger Posts on the Way of Life T. S. Arthur
• The Lights and Shadows of Real Life T. S. Arthur
• The Author of Beltraffio Henry James
• The Hermit and the Wild Woman Edith Wharton
• Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories Rex Beach
• Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby Kathleen Norris
• Anting-Anting Stories Sargent Kayme
• A Wasted Day Richard Harding Davis
• Meadow Grass Alice Brown
• Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Edward Everett Hale
• Horses and Men Sherwood Anderson
• Lemorne Versus Huell Elizabeth Stoddard
• Folks from Dixie Paul Laurence Dunbar
• Rancho del Muerto and Other Stories of Adventure Charles King and Others
• The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon Josephine Daskam Bacon
• Nona Vincent Henry James
• Drift from Two Shores Bret Harte
• A Gentleman Vagabond and Some Others F. Hopkinson Smith
• The Law-Breakers and Other Stories Robert Grant
• Words for the Wise T. S. Arthur
• How Deacon Tubman and Parson Whitney Kept New Year’s W. H. H. Murray
• Last Words Stephen Crane
• Our Square and the People in It Samuel Hopkins Adams
• From Sand Hill to Pine Bret Harte
• After a Shadow T. S. Arthur
• Married Life: Its Shadows and Sunshine T. S. Arthur
• By Shore and Sedge Bret Harte
• The Third Circle Frank Norris
• Home Lights and Shadows T. S. Arthur
• New Faces Myra Kelly
• Thrifty Stock Ben Ames Williams
• Violets and Other Tales Alice Dunbar-Nelson
• Life at High Tide William Dean Howells
• Legends and Tales Bret Harte
• The Threefold Destiny Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Hillsboro People Dorothy Canfield Fisher
• The Militants Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
• Peace Manoeuvres Richard Harding Davis
• The Sick-a-Bed Lady Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
• When You Were a Boy Edwin L. Sabin
• Picture Stuff Raoul Whitfield
• Vain Oblations Katharine Fullerton Gerould
• Maid Marian and Other Stories Molly Elliot Seawell
• Stories of New York Edith Wharton and others
• Gallegher and Other Stories Richard Harding Davis
• My Story That I Like Best Ray Long
• Raw Material Dorothy Canfield Fisher
• Heart-Histories and Life-Pictures T. S. Arthur
• The Seven Vagabonds Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Happy End Joseph Hergesheimer
• Main Street Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Woman’s Trials T. S. Arthur
• Sally Dows and Other Stories Bret Harte
• A Question of Latitude Richard Harding Davis
• The Village Uncle Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Consul Richard Harding Davis
• Down the Mother Lode Vivia Hemphill
• A Little Book of Profitable Tales Eugene Field
• The Little Regiment Stephen Crane
• The Penance of Magdalena J. Smeaton Chase
• Yellowstone Nights Herbert Quick
• Gigolo Edna Ferber
• A Book Djuna Barnes
• Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories Robert Herrick
• Between Whiles Helen Hunt Jackson
• Storm Leland S. Jamieson
• Whilomville Stories Stephen Crane
• Christmas Stories Mary Jane Holmes
• Crucial Instances Edith Wharton
• The Justice of Gideon Eleanor Gates
• Back Home Irvin S. Cobb
• The Loves of Pelleas and Etarre Zona Gale
• A Breath of Prairie and Other Stories Will Lillibridge
• The Gold Brick Brand Whitlock
• Idle Hour Stories Eugenia Dunlap Potts
• Little Annie’s Ramble Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Private Life and Other Tales Henry James
• The Intelligence Office Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Spread Eagle and Other Stories Gouverneur Morris
• Tiverton Tales Alice Brown
• The White Old Maid Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Hand of the Mighty, and Other Stories Vaughan Kester
• Home Scenes and Home Influence T. S. Arthur
• Silence and Other Stories Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
• Autumnal Leaves Lydia Maria Child
• A Virtuoso’s Collection Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Murder in Any Degree Owen Johnson
• In Beaver Cove and Elsewhere Matt Crim
• Heimweh and Other Stories John Luther Long
• The Life of Nancy Sarah Orne Jewett
• The Lost Word Henry van Dyke
• Tales for Fifteen James Fenimore Cooper
• A Touch of Sun, and Other Stories Mary Hallock Foote
• The Raid of the Guerilla Charles Egbert Craddock
• The Phantoms of the Foot-Bridge, and Other Stories Charles Egbert Craddock
• Christmas in the Adirondacks W. H. H. Murray
• The Fascinating Stranger, and Other Stories Booth Tarkington
• My Visit to Niagara and Other Sketches Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Out of Mulberry Street Jacob A. Riis