Books like Great American Short Stories by Wallace Stegner

Great American Short Stories is an anthology that brings together a wide range of classic American short fiction. The collection includes iconic tales such as Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown, Edgar Allan Poe’s Fall of the House of Usher, Herman Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener, and Mark Twain’s Baker’s Bluejay Yarn. Other contributors featured include Bret Harte, Henry James, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Hamlin Garland, O. Henry, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, Sherwood Anderson, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Conrad Aiken, Katherine Anne Porter, James Thurber, William March, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Paul Horgan, John O’Hara, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Eudora Welty, and Hortense Calisher. Curated by Wallace Stegner, the anthology offers readers entry points into seminal works that span the spectrum of American literary history and genres.

First publish date: 1957