# Great American Short Stories **Author(s):** Edith Wharton, Mary Stegner, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Wallace Stegner, Conrad Aiken, Sherwood Anderson, William March, John O'Hara, Hortense Calisher, Ambrose Bierce, Hamlin Garland, Paul Horgan, Bret Harte, Katherine Anne Porter, Stephen Crane, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, John Steinbeck, Eudora Welty, Mary (editor) Stegner, Washington Irving, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, James Thurber, Henry James, William Faulkner, O. Henry **Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (0 unpaid reviews; need 5) **Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/great-american-short-stories/verdict.json **Genres:** fantasy, literary-fiction, gothic-horror, horror, childrens **Pages:** 511 **Publisher:** Laurel **Published:** Wed Aug 01 1984 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) **Language:** en **URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/great-american-short-stories ## Description Contains: Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W/Young_Goodman_Brown) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- [Fall of the house of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- [Bartleby the scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W/Bartleby_the_Scrivener) / Herman Melville -- Baker's bluejay yarn / Mark Twain -- Tennessee's partner / Bret Harte -- The real thing / Henry James -- The boarded window / Ambrose Bierce -- A village singer / Mary Wilkins Freeman -- Mrs.Ripley's trip / Hamlin Garland -- A muncipial report / O. Henry -- Roman fever / Edith Wharton -- The open boat / Stephen Crane -- Unlighted lamps / Sherwood Anderson -- The man who saw through heaven / Wilbur Daniel Steele -- Silent snow, secret snow / Conrad Aiken -- He / Katherine Anne Porter -- The catbird seat / James Thurber -- The little wife / William March -- [Wash](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16245840W/Wash) / William Faulkner -- The snake / John Steinbeck -- To the mountains / Paul Horgan -- Over the river and through the wood / John O'Hara -- The wind and the snow of winter / Walter Van Tilburg Clark -- Powerhouse / Eudora Welty -- In greenwich there are many gravelled walks / Hortense Calisher. ## SageChimp reader verdict Great American Short Stories has no unpaid published reviews on SageChimp yet. That is not enough to say whether the book is genuinely well-liked or amplified by paid/ARC/BookTok hype. Do not treat Amazon, Goodreads, or social scores as SageChimp evidence. - **Status:** Not enough unpaid reviews (`insufficient_data`) - **Paid-hype signal:** Cannot judge paid hype from this sample (`insufficient_data`) - **Unpaid reviews:** 0 - **ARC / incentivized reviews:** 0 - **Machine-readable:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/great-american-short-stories/verdict.json *SageChimp verdicts use only published, unflagged reviews written on SageChimp. Organic reviews exclude ARC/incentivized copies (isArcReview). Catalog star averages on other sites are not used. A verdict requires at least 5 organic reviews. We cannot audit Amazon, BookTok, or Goodreads review authenticity.*