The Great American Short Story Collection: 40 Outstanding Tales by American Writers

Written by Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Mark Twain

Narrated by Cathy Dobson

A thoroughly engaging collection of great classic tales by the very best of American authors.
1. From Beyond by H. P. Lovecraft
2. The Mysterious Card and the Card Unveiled by Cleveland Moffett
3. Pigs is Pigs by Ellis Parker Butler
4. The Club of One-Eyed Men by Arthur Somers Roche
5. Afterward by Edith Wharton
6. The Furnished Room by O. Henry
7. A Descent into the Maelström by Edgar Allan Poe
8. Regret by Kate Chopin
9. The Terrible Old Man by H. P. Lovecraft
10. The Dumb Man by Sherwood Anderson
11. A Desperate Adventure by Max Adeler
12. A Bottomless Grave by Ambrose Bierce
13. Cannibalism in the Cars by Mark Twain
14. Mr. Higginbotham’s Catastrophe by Nathaniel Hawthorne
15. The Marionettes by O. Henry
16. The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
17. The Storm by Kate Chopin
18. The Eyes by Edith Wharton
19. Berenice by Edgar Allan Poe
20. Imprisoned with the Pharaohs by Harry Houdini and H. P. Lovecraft
21. The One Million Pound Bank Note by Mark Twain
22. A Lucky Number by S. B. Hale
23. Lost in a Pyramid by Louisa M. Alcott
24. The Problem of the Five Marks by Melville Davisson Post
25. William Wilson by Edgar Allan Poe
26. The Venturers by O. Henry
27. The Cats of Ulthar by H. P. Lovecraft
28. Submarine by Stella Benson
29. The Thousand and Second Tale of Sheherazade by Edgar Allan Poe
30. The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
... and ten more wonderful stories.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Red Door Consulting
• Release date: Jun 30, 2015
• ISBN: 9781467698788

Kate Chopin

Kate Chopin, born Katherine O'Flaherty (1850-1904), was an American writer of short stories and novels based in Louisiana. Chopin is best known for her novel The Awakening, and for her short story collections, Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897). Of French and Irish descent, her work depicted the various ethnic groups of Louisiana, especially of Creoles, with sensitivity and wit, and featured vivid descriptions of the natural environment there. After her husband died in 1882 and left her $42,000 in debt, Chopin took up writing to support her family of six children. Though popular, her serious literary qualities were overlooked in her day, and she is now seen as an important early American feminist writer.