Featuring 19 of the finest works in the American short-story tradition, this compilation includes: "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Bartleby" by Herma

The incomparable John Updike selects the 55 finest short stories from America's bestselling anthology, published since 1915.

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Short stories by such authors as Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allen Poe, Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, Eudora Wely and many others to yr., 1

An affordable compilation of more than a dozen of the best American short stories features tales by Hawthorne, Twain, James, Cheever, Wharton, and Cather. Conte