• Publication: Short Story Classics (American)Publication Record # 308933
• Editor: William Patten
• Date: 1905-00-00
• Publisher: P. F. Collier & Son
• Pages: xxiv+331+356+358+355+358
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes: 5 volumes. The page numbers span across all 5 volumes. Speculative fiction content only. Data from Bleiler's "Science-Fiction: The Early Years". Bleiler states that the Freeman story appears in Volume Five but it actually appears in Volume 4. The full text and images of this edition are available at The HathiTrust Digital Library: Volume One, Volume Two, Volume Three, Volume Four and Volume Five
• External IDs:
  • Bleiler Early Years: 1754
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 1037370192

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• vii • Preface (Short Story Classics (American)) • essay by William Patten
• xiii • Introduction: The Spirit of the Short Story • essay by William Patten
• 3 • Rip Van Winkle • (1819) • short story by Washington Irving
• 29 • The Murders in the Rue Morgue • [Chevalier Dupin] • (1841) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
• 83 • The Great Stone Face • (1850) • novelette by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 127 • The Diamond Lens • (1858) • novelette by Fitz-James O'Brien
• 165 • The Man Without a Country • non-genre • (1863) • novelette by Edward Everett Hale
• 403 • Mademoiselle Olympe Zabriski • (1873) • short story by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
• 691 • The Soul of the Great Bell • (1887) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
• 729 • The Liar • non-genre • (1888) • novella by Henry James
• 841 • My Terminal Moraine • (1892) • novelette by Frank R. Stockton
• 911 • The Upper Berth • (1885) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford
• 945 • The Inmate of the Dungeon • (1897) • short story by W. C. Morrow
• 1255 • For the Love of a Man • short story by Jack London
• 1275 • The Hall Bedroom • (1903) • short story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
• 1303 • The Damned Thing • (1893) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 1361 • Brother Rabbit's Cradle • short story by Joel Chandler Harris
• 1375 • The Tree of Heaven • (1904) • short story by Robert W. Chambers