{"product_id":"2940151151825","title":"Short Stories You Never Heard Of (But Should Have)","description":"Introduction\u003cbr\u003eIf you were to compile a list of one hundred of the most popular short stories by American authors, it is quite likely that not one in this collection would make your list. This doesn't mean that any of these stories are unworthy, but it does mean that they did not make the anthology cut for stories deemed acceptable for college or high school literature texts. And if you were to look into the choices made by textbook publishers over the last one hundred years, you would see the same stories in text after text. For Poe- The Cask of Amontillado. O. Henry – The Gift of the Magi. Jack London – To Build a Fire. Kate Chopin – The Story of an Hour. Twain – The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. And so it goes for author after author. A few stories become anthologized to death while the bulk gather dust on the shelves of anonymity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt seems a bit unfair, especially considering how brilliant some of these less than famous works are. All the authors are well known here, but you are indeed well-read if you can recognize all these titles. So it is up to you to take a chance here.  Read these at your leisure. Peruse one over your lunch break. Enjoy a short story instead of giving yourself over to Netflix or Showtime. Give these lesser known stories a chance to settle in your mind. You won't regret it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou might find yourself compiling a very different list of your most popular stories. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents:\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eLouisa May Alcott – Kitty's Class Day, Scarlet Stockings\u003cbr\u003eSherwood Anderson – I Want to Know Why, The Egg\u003cbr\u003eAmbrose Bierce – A Horseman in the Sky, An Heiress from Redhorse\u003cbr\u003eWilla Cather – The Affair at Grover Station, Tommy, the Unsentimental\u003cbr\u003eKate Chopin – A Lady of Bayou St. John, After the Winter\u003cbr\u003eStephen Crane – The Blue Hotel, The Snake\u003cbr\u003eSusan Glaspell – The Anarchist, The Last Sixty Minutes\u003cbr\u003eBret Harte – A Widow of the Santa Ana Valley, How Santa Clause Came to Simpson\u003cbr\u003eNathaniel Hawthorne – Endicott and the Red Cross, Young Goodman Brown\u003cbr\u003eJack London – Flush of Gold, South of the Slot \u003cbr\u003eHerman Melville – The Fiddler, The Happy Failure\u003cbr\u003eO. Henry – According to Their Lights, Lord Oakhurst, Man about Town, The Cactus\u003cbr\u003eEdgar Allan Poe – Hop-Frog, the Black Cat\u003cbr\u003eMark Twain – Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man, The Californian's Tale\u003cbr\u003eEdith Wharton – The Other Two, The Reckoning","brand":"Shamrock Eden Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47102377787632,"sku":"2940151151825","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940151151825_p0.jpg?v=1764006848","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940151151825","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}