The Norton book of American short stories

The Speechof Polly Baker / Benjamin Franklin --

The Devil and Tom Walker / Washington Irving --

Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne --

The Tell-Tale Heart / Edgar Allen Poe --

The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut / Samuel L. Clemens --

The Outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte --

Chickamauga / Ambrose Bierce --

The Middle Years / Henry James --

Belles Demoiselles Plantation / George W. Cable --

The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story and How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox / Joel Chandler Harris --

A White Heron / Sarah Orne Jewett --

The Story of an Hour / Kate Chopin --

Luella Miller / Mary E. Wilkins --

The Yellow Wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman --

Mammon and the Archer / O. Henry --

Pomegranate Seed / Edith Wharton --

The Open Boat / Stephen Crane --

Paul's Case / Willa Cather --

Death in the Woods / Sherwood Anderson --

To Build a Fire / Jack London --

Champion / Ring Lardner --

The Man Who Saw Through Heaven / Wilbur Daniel Steele --

Silent Snow, Secret Snow / Conrad Aiken --

Theft / Katherine Anne Porter --

The Baby in the Icebox / James M. Cain --

Liquor Makes You Smart / Anita Loos --

The Standard of Living / Dorothy Parker --

The Unicorn in the Garden / James Thurber --

Becky / Jean Toomer --

The Bridal Party / F. Scott Fitzgerald --

Wash / William Faulkner --

Hills Like White Elephants / Ernest Hemingway --

The Eatonville Anthology / Zora Neale Hurston --

Slave on the Block / Langston Hughes --

Kneel to the Rising Sun / Erskine Caldwell --

Gimpel the Fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer --

Over the River and Through the Wood / John O'Hara --

White on Black / Tess Slesinger --

Why I Live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty --

The Swimmer / John Cheever --

I Stand Here Ironing / Tillie Olsen --

The Eighty-Yard Run / Irwin Shaw --

My Father Sits in the Dark / Jorme Weidman --

Idiots First / Bernard Malamud --

In the Zoo / Jean Stafford --

The Lotter / Shirley Jackson --

The Valiant Woman / J. F. Powers --

A Subject of Childhood / Grace Paley --

In the Heart of the Heart of the Country / William H. Gass --

Revelation / Flannery O'Connor --

Levitation / Cynthia Ozick --

The Ones Who Wal Away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin --

A Poetics for Bullies / Stanley Elkin --

Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning / Donald Barthelme --

The Babysitter / Robert Coover --

When Everyone Was Pregnant / John Updike --

Revenge of the Lawn / Richard Brautigan --

Victory Over Japan / Ellen Gilchrist --

Midair / Frank Conroy --

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love / Raymond Carver --

How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again / Joyce Carol Oates --

Gorilla, My Love / Toni Cade Bambara --

Teller's Ticket / Robert Flanagan --

Bridging / Max Apple --

Communist / Richard Ford --

Everyday Use / Alice Walker --

Letters from Samantha / Mark Helprin --

Herself in Love / Marianne Wiggins --

Lechery / Jayne Anne Phillips --

Biograph / Michael Martone