About this book
Contains:
The devil and Tom Walker, 1824 / Washington Irving
[Rappaccini's daughter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455378W), 1844 / Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hop-frog, 1849 / Edgar Allan Poe
The outcasts of Poker Flat, 1869 / Bret Harte
The courting of Sister Wisby, 1887 / Sarah Orne Jewett
The revolt of "Mother", 1890 / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
A horseman in the sky, 1891 / Ambrose Bierce
The 1,000,000 [pound] banknote, 1893 / Mark Twain
[A pair of silk stockings](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078930W), 1897 / Kate Chopin
The bride comes to Yellow Sky, 1898 / Stephen Crane
A journey, 1899 / Edith Wharton
The sculptor's funeral, 1905 / Willa Cather
The ransom of Red Chief, 1907 / O. Henry
The egg, 1920 / Sherwood Anderson
Winter dreams, 1922 / F. Scott Fitzgerald
Some like them cold, 1924 / Ring Lardner
The greatest man in the world, 1931 / James Thurber
A day's wait, 1933 / Ernest Hemingway
The man who saw the flood, 1937 / Richard Wright
Flight, 1938 / John Steinbeck
A worn path, 1940 / Eudora Welty
Holiday, 1960- / Katherine Anne Porter
Subjects
fictionAmerican short storiesshort storiesSocial life and customsManners and customsshort storyimpulseresponsibility