This is a compilation of the greatest short stories from America. What began as an America invention has remained as American invention has remained as American speciality. The greatest short story writers have bewen Americans, the exceptions have been Rudyyard Kipling, Conard, Joyce and O'Connor, Katherine Mansfield and D.H. Lawrence. In the same years America has produced not only Poe and Hawthrone but Henry James, Stephen Crane, Sherwood Anderson, Ring Lardner, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Katherine Anne Porter and many more. These stiries are both menat for students of American literature as well as general reader.
