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 beoved by fiction readers everywhere.