# American short stories Author: Baldwin, Charles Sears, 1867-1935 [Editor] Genre: Category: Short Stories Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73141 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=American+short+stories+Baldwin&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary How few years comprise the history of American literature is strikingly suggested by the fact that so much of it can be covered by the reminiscence of a single man of letters.[1] A life beginning in the ’20’s had actual touch in boyhood with Irving, and seized fresh from the press the romances of Cooper. And if the history of American literature be read more exclusively as the history of literary development essentially American, its years are still fewer. “I perceive,” says a foreign visitor in Austin’s story of _Joseph Natterstrom_, “this is a very young country, but a very old people.”[2] Some critics, indeed, have been so irritated by the spreading of the eagle in larger pretensions a... ## Chapters - [PART II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-short-stories-73141/chapters/5/index.md) - [PART I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-short-stories-73141/chapters/3/index.md) - [PART II. THE PERIOD OF THE NEW FORM](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-short-stories-73141/chapters/2/index.md) - [volume xlvii, page 354), with a letter dated at Little Rock, August 15,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-short-stories-73141/chapters/4/index.md) - [PART I. THE TENTATIVE PERIOD](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-short-stories-73141/chapters/1/index.md)