Abstract

This great flowering of talent includes such classic stories as Mark Twain's "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog," Bret Harte's "The Luck of Roaring Camp," Ambrose Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," and Henry James's "The Beast in the Jungle." The volume's editors have also expanded the sweep of American Realism to embrace works by less well known African-American, Asian-American, and Native-American writers.