The New Penguin Book of American Short Stories

Feturing stories by: Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Fanny Fern, Mark Twain, Joel Chandler Harris, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Charles W. Chesnutt, Henry James, Stephen Crane, O.Henry, Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, Edith Wharton, Dorothy Parker, Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zora Nearle Hurston, Bernard Malamud, Flannery O´Connor, John Updike, John Cheever, Grace Paley, Alice Walker, Donald Barthelme, Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, Lorrie Moore, Jhumpa Lahiri, Lydia Davis.