The Best American Short Stories

A wonderful collection of short stories" by some of the all-time great American writers.

1. "The Diamond Lens" by Fitz James O’Brien

2. "Titbottom’s Spectacles" by George William Curtis

3. "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe

4. "The Eyes of the Panther" by Ambrose Bierce

5. "The Lightning Rod Man" by Hermann Melville

6. "Seeds" by Sherwood Anderson

7. "Who Was She?" by Bayard Taylor

8. "The Man who stole a Meeting House" by John Townsend Trowbridge

9. "Memoirs of a Yellow Dog" by O. Henry

10. "The Tell-tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe

11. "The Lady or the Tiger" by Frank Stockton

12. "The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm" by Mark Twain

13. "William Wilson" by Edgar Allan Poe

14. "The New Englander" by Sherwood Anderson

15. "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin

16. "The Stolen White Elephant" by Mark Twain

17. "The Unknown Quantity" by O. Henry

18. "My Favorite Murder" by Ambrose Bierce

19. "One Thousand Dollars" by O. Henry

20. "The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe

21. "The Belated Russian Passport" by Mark Twain

22. "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry

23. "American Sir!" by Mary Raymond Freeman Andrews

24. "Curried Cow" by Ambrose Bierce

25. "An Egyptian Cigarette" by Kate Chopin

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Release date

Audiobook: 5 February 2020