The Great Modern American Stories : An Anthology

asts of Poker Flat / Francis Bret Harte -- The Christmas wreck / Frank Stockton -- The mission of Jane / Edith Wharton -- The courting of Sister Wisby / Sarah Orne Jewett -- The revolt of mother / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- Told in the poorhouse / Alice Brown -- An occurrence at Owl Creek bridge / Ambrose Bierce -- The return of a private / Hamlin Garland -- Striking an average / Henry B. Fuller -- Effie Wittlesy / George Ade The lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser -- A failure / Edith Wyatt -- The yellow wall paper / Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman -- The little room / Madelene Yale Wynne -- Aunt Sanna Terry / Landon R. Dashiell -- The lotus eaters / Virginia Tracy -- Jean-Ah Poquelin / G.W. Cable -- Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, and the Tar Baby / Joel Chandler Harris -- Biographical notes and bibliography (p. 419-432)