The American Short Story: The Nineteenth Century, Volume 2 (LOA #395)

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 unprecedented in its scope, The American Short Story: The Nineteenth Century gathers more than one hundred stories by fifty different writers.

This second volume of The Library of America’s two-volume anthology of nineteenth…