The American Short Story: A nation’s genius for the short form

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

In this collection

• Artemis Altera
• At Old Man Eckert's
• The Turtle
• The House of the Wolf
• As a Thief in the Night
• The Man and his Friend
• A Legend of Norham
• Her Marriage, her Clothes, her Appetite, and an Inventory of Her
• Science Fiction
• A Wife's Confession
• Imperial Purple
• The Prairie
• Eugene Byfield
• My Dainty Dame
• Failure on Titan
• The Giant Poppy
• Peleg Poague
• The Rubber Hunter
• Mercy Flight
• How Balloons are Made
• Lieutenant Laré's Marriage
• At Last
• Tales: The Great Winglebury Duel
• Joseph Conrad
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