This is a compilation of the greatest short stories from America. What began as an American invention has remained an American speciality. The greatest short story writers have been Americans, the exceptions have been Rudyard Kipling, Conard, Joyce and O’Connor, Katherine Mansfield and D.H. Lawrence. In the same years America has produced not only Poe and Howthorne but Henry James, Stephen Crane, Sherwood Anderson, Ring Laardner, Ernest Hemingway, William ...
