The American Short Story: The Nineteenth Century, Volume 1 (LOA #394)

The first volume in a landmark story collection that redefines what we thought we knew about the great American literary form. A diverse, unprecedented gathering of more than one hundred stories, representing work by fifty different writers.

As much a nineteenth-century American invention as 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 appreciated. Diverse, wide-ranging, and…