The Oxford Book of American Short Stories

by Joyce Carol Oates, Washington Irving, Jack London, Stephen Crane, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Carlos Williams, Katherine Anne Porter, Langston Hughes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Baldwin, Ray Bradbury, Eudora Welty, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow, John Cheever, Ursula K. Le Guin, John Updike, Raymond Carver, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Henry James, Flannery O’Connor