The Oxford book of American short stories - Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- (Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992)
Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- Peter Rugg, the missing man / William Austin -- The wives of the dead / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids / Herman Melville -- The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- The ghost in the mill / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Cannibalism in the cars / Samuel Clemens -- a white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett -- The storm / Kate Chopin -- The sheriff's children / Charles Chesnutt -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The middle years / Henry James -- In a far country / Jack London -- Old woman Magoun / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- The little regiment / Stephen Crane -- A journey / Edith Wharton -- The strength of God / Sherwood Anderson.
Includes index.
Mode of access: Internet.
Keywords: Short stories, American