Project Gutenberg 2024-03-11 Public domain in the USA. 508 Baldwin, Charles Sears 1867 1935 American short stories : $b Selected and edited with an introductory essay on the short story by Charles Sears Baldwin $aUnited States :$bLongmans, Green & Co., $c1904, reprint 1921. Introduction -- Pt. 1. The tentative period: Rip Van Winkle, by Washington Irving. Peter Rugg, the missing man, by William Austin. The French village, by James Hall. The inroad of the Nabajo, by Albert Pike -- Pt. 2. The period of the new form: The white old maid, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The notary of Périgueux, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The fall of the House of Usher, by Edgar Allan Poe. The inlet of peach blossoms, by Nathaniel Parker Willis. The bee-tree, by Caroline Matilda Stansbury Kirkland. What was it? A mystery, by Fitz-James O'Brien. The outcasts of Poker Flat, by Francis Bret Harte. Miss Eunice's glove, by Albert Falvey Webster. Who was she? by Bayard Taylor. The love-letters of Smith, by Henry Cuyler Bunner. The eve of the Fourth, by Harold Frederic. Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "American Short Stories" by Charles Sears Baldwin is a collection of selected stories and critical essays on the short story genre, written in the early 20th century. The compilation aims to showcase the evolution of the American short story, exploring its development from meandering anecdotes to a distinct and cohesive literary form. The collection features a variety of tales from notable authors such as Washington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe, showcasing diverse themes and styles. The opening of the volume outlines Baldwin's intentions and the historical context of the American short story. He emphasizes that the book is not about collecting the "best" stories but rather tracing the progression of the genre. Baldwin discusses the shift in literary norms in America and highlights the importance of Edgar Allan Poe's contributions to the short story form. He notes the influences from both domestic and international literature while setting the stage for the specific narratives to come, leading to an understanding of how the American narrative style has developed distinctly over time. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/americanshortsto00baldrich/page/n5/mode/2up 20230803033935various 1904 US Reading ease score: 67.1 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Short stories, American American fiction -- 19th century PS Text Category: Short Stories Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches Category: American Literature 753921 2025-09-29T05:02:14.728874 text/html 708775 2024-03-11T02:00:35 text/html 565840 2025-09-29T05:02:27.112875 application/epub+zip 562732 2025-09-29T05:02:17.341861 application/epub+zip 416251 2025-09-29T05:02:16.094917 application/epub+zip 688111 2025-09-29T05:02:34.104855 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 618651 2025-09-29T05:02:25.911799 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 627476 2025-09-29T05:02:13.222908 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 607465 2024-03-11T02:00:35 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17174 2025-09-29T05:02:34.257754 application/rdf+xml 10819 2025-09-29T05:02:16.361851 image/jpeg 2081 2025-09-29T05:02:16.231849 image/jpeg 519969 2025-09-29T05:02:14.785925 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia