The American Short Story: The Nineteenth Century: A Library of America Boxed Set

A LANDMARK SHORT STORY COLLECTION: More than 100 short stories by 51 different 19th-century writers redefine the great American literary form

Incudes both literary masterpieces—including classic stories by Poe, Hawthorne, Twain, James, and Wharton—and new rediscoveries

As much a nineteenth-century American invention as baseball, the cotton gin, and the steamboat, the short story emerged here with a range of innovation and a variety of styles and subjects that has still not been fully appreci...