International Short Stories: American

A 1904 anthology that follows the American short story from Rip Van Winkle through Poe, Hawthorne and Bret Harte. The editor's opening essay explains how the form took shape.

Charles Sears Baldwin (Editor)

Five stories from the 1884 series that gathered the best American magazine fiction of its day, opening with Bayard Taylor's Who Was She? Short, light and full of Gilded Age manners.

Various Authors

The first volume of the yearly Best Short Stories series, with the editor's picks from that year's magazines and a yearbook of the American short story. Includes Fannie Hurst, Wilbur Daniel Steele and Ben Hecht.

Edward J. O'Brien (Editor)

A snapshot of American fiction turning modern, with early stories by Sherwood Anderson, Djuna Barnes and Anzia Yezierska. Chosen from the magazines of 1919 by the editor of the series.

Edward J. O'Brien (Editor)