Cochrane, James (Ed.) : The Penguin Book of American Short Stories

This collection offers twenty-one stories from the literature of America, a nation which has always been particularly at home in this form, and which has produced many of its masters.

Some of the stories included — those by Poe, James and Hemingway for example — are already widely known. Some will be less familiar to the English reader. Taken as a whole, The Penguin Book of American Short Stories is an excellent and entertaining introduction to the rich diversity of pleasures that the American short story at its best can offer.

Contents:
- The legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
- Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
- Bartleby by Herman Melville
- The man that corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain
- The outcasts of Poker Flat by Francis Bret Harte
- One of the missing by Ambrose Bierce
- The real thing by Henry James
- An unfinished story by O. Henry
- The bride comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane
- Neighbor Rosicky by Willa Cather
- To build a fire by Jack London
- Death in the woods by Sherwood Anderson
- Who dealt? by Ring Lardner
- Flowering Judas by Katherine Anne Porter
- The rich boy by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Delta autumn by William Faulkner
- The battler by Ernest Hemingway
- The jewbird by Bernard Malamud
- Children on their birthdays by Truman Capote
- Wife-wooing by John Updike