Features 19 gems in the American short-story tradition, including "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Bartleby" by Herman Melville, "To Build a Fire" by

Short stories by such authors as Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allen Poe, Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, Eudora Wely and many others to yr., 1

This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore

An anthology of classic American writers including, O. Henry, Steven Crane, Jack London, Ambrose Bierce and Mary Wilkins Freeman.

Including one new story and an Index by author of every story that has ever appeared in the series, this new volume offers a "spectacular tapestry of fictional