The American Short Story

America perfected the short story — Poe and Hawthorne, O. Henry’s twists, Twain’s tall tales, and the masters of the compact American tale.

A nation’s genius for the short form

In this collection

• One Purple Hope!
• Pabo, the Priest: the Bracelet of Maxen
• A Montana Christmas
• The Mark of Cain
• The Great White Queen
• The Mysterious Key and what it Opened
• Rose
• The Song of Diego Valdez
• Cimarron
• The Little Steel Coils
• The Snob Royal
• Who Killed the Husband?
• The Fyghtynge Seventh
• The Elephant's Journey
• An Eye for an Eye A Story of the War
• The Stockbroker's Clerk
• The Mercy of Allah
• While the Billy Boils
• The Midnight a, B, C
• Hercules and Minerva
• Sheila
• I am a Nucleus
• The Bibulous Business of a Matter of Taste
• The of the Beryl Coronet
• Securities
• The Grandiloquent Goat
• The Return
• Christopher and Columbus
• David R. Lewis
• Things and the Man
• The Fog
• The Duchess
• Intra Sepulchrum
• Lean Lisa
• Psychology from Mars
• Heroes in Strange Garb
• Amateur Night
• An Incident
• The Light of the Body
• The Leopard Man's Story
• Bits of Clay
• The Artist's Birthday
• The Face Called Forgiveness
• The Young Lady in Blue
• Their Appointed Rounds
• A Journey in Search of Christmas
• The Incredible Slingshot Bombs

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