An affordable compilation of more than a dozen of the best American short stories features tales by Hawthorne, Twain, James, Cheever, Wharton, and Cather. Contents include The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, Stephen Crane's The Open Boat, and A Worn Path by Eudora Welty.