200 years of great American short stories
edited by Martha Foley
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1975.
ISBN: 039520447X
Notes:
A pretty story / Francis Hopkinson -- Rip Van Winkle / Washington
Irving -- Peter Rugg, the missing man / William Austin -- The grey
champion / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The big bear of Arkansas / T. B.
Thorpe -- The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe -- Bartleby the
Scrivener / Herman Melville -- Tennessee's partner / Bret Harte --
Captain Kidd's money / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Marjorie Daw / Thomas
Bailey Aldrich -- The lady or the tiger? / Frank Stockton -- Over on
the t'other mounting / Charles Egbert Craddock -- The revolt of
mother / Mary Wilkins Freeman -- One of the missing / Ambrose Bierce
-- The return of a private / Hamlin Garland -- The real thing / Henry
James.
The courting of Sister Wisby / Sarah Orne Jewett -- The open boat /
Stephen Crane -- The man that corrupted Hadleyburg / Samuel Langhorne
Clemens -- The furnished room / O. Henry -- To build a fire / Jack
London -- The strength of God and the teacher / Sherwood Anderson --
The diamond as big as the Ritz / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Haircut /
Ring Lardner -- Double birthday / Willa Cather -- Spring evening /
James T. Farrell -- Masses of men / Erskine Caldwell -- The gilded
six-bits / Zora Neale Hurston -- Silent snow, secret snow / Conrad
Aiken -- An odor of Verbena / William Faulkner.
The daring young man on the flying trapeze / William Saroyan -- The
snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway -- A tooth for Paul Revere /
Stephen Vincent Benť -- Noon wine / Katherine Anne Porter -- The
leader of the people / John Steinbeck -- Lily Daw and the three
ladies / Eudora Welty -- Fire and cloud / Richard Wright -- The
patterns of love / William Maxwell -- The ballad of the sad caf ̌/
Carson McCullers -- Cass Mastern's wedding ring / Robert Penn Warren
-- The wedding: Beacon Hill / Jean Stafford -- Rain in the heart /
Peter Taylor -- Gunners' passage / Irwin Shaw -- The lottery /
Shirley Jackson -- February 1999: Ylla / Ray Bradbury -- The country
husband / John Cheever.
A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- The Mexican girl /
Jack Kerouac -- The Pedersen kid / William H. Gass -- Seven say you
can hear corn grow / Kay Boyle -- Where are you going, where have you
been? / Joyce Carol Oates -- Tell me how long the train's been gone /
James Baldwin -- Son / John Updike -- Yellow woman / Leslie Silko.
Book Details:
Language: eng
Physical Description: xii, 968 p. ; 24 cm.
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