American Great Works List: Short Story (Contributed by Fred Poole, Utah State University)

Title	Author	Movement/School
The Way to Wealth	Benjamin  Franklin	Pre 19th Century
The Tell-Tale Heart	Edgar Allan Poe	Romanticism
The Cask of Amontillado	Edgar Allan Poe	Romanticism
Young Goodman Brown	Nathaniel Hawthorne	Romanticism
The Devil and Tom Walker	Washington Irving	Romanticism
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County	Mark Twain	Realism
The Story of an Hour	Kate Chopin	Realism
An Occurrence at Owl Creek	Ambrose Bierce	Realism
To Build a Fire	Jack London	Naturalism
The Open Boat	Stephen Crane	Naturalism
A Deal in Wheat	Frank Norris	Naturalism
The Chrysanthemums	John Steinbeck	Naturalism
A Rose for Emily	William Faulkner	Modernism
A Clean Well Lighted Place	Ernest Hemingway	Modernism
Death in the Woods	Sherwood Anderson	Modernism
Babylon Revisited	F. Scott Fitzgerald	Modernism
A Good Man is Hard to Find	Flannery O’Connor	Post-Modernism
The Lottery	Shirley Jackson	Post-Modernism
The Laughing Man	J.D. Salinger	Post-Modernism
I Stand Here Ironing	Tillie Olsen	Post-Modernism