Norton Book of American Short Stories — Peter Prescott

With more than 50 stories, including work by Raymond Carver and Ellen Gilchrist, The Norton Book of American Short Stories offers a diversity of style and range of emotion that reflects the fertile culture of the American experience.

The Norton Book of American Short Stories embraces many of the most famous examples of the genre―from "Young Goodman Brown" to "The Lottery"―but it also includes lesser-known stories of equal merit by many famous authors: Irving's "The Devil and Tom Walker," Faulkner's "Wash," and Edith Wharton's masterly ghost story, "Pomegranate Seed."