Featuring a wide range of genres, this hand-picked collection of short stories includes distinguished writers of the American short-story canon. The compilation begins with 'The Tell-Tale Heart' by Edgar Allan Poe, traversing through Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown, ' Melville's 'Bartleby, ' Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper, ' Fitzgerald's 'Bernice Bobs Her Hair, ' and other stories to conclude at Chesnutt's 'The Goophered Grapevine'.

Brilliant for classroom use, this book of tales will be loved by fiction readers everywhere