The American short story
The American short story: a collection of the best known and most memorable short stories by the great American authors
edited by Thomas K. Parkes
Publisher: New York : Galahad Books, 1994.
ISBN: 0883658739
Notes:
Rip Van Winkle; The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving --
Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The fall of the House
of Usher; The murders in the Rue Morgue; The purloined letter / Edgar
Allen Poe -- Benito Cereno / Herman Melville -- The man without a
country / Edward Everett Hale -- The lady, or the tiger / Frank R.
Stockton -- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County; The man
that corrupted Hadleyburg / Mark Twain -- The luck of roaring camp;
The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte -- Marjorie Daw / Thomas
Bailey Aldrich -- The damned thing; An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
/ Ambrose Bierce -- The turn of the screw / Henry James -- Brer
Rabbit, Brer Fox, and the tar baby / Joel Chandler Harris -- A white
heron / Sarah Orne Jewett -- The story of the other wise man / Henry
Van Dyke -- The return of a private / Hamlin Garland -- The mission
of Jane / Edith Wharton -- The gift of the Magi; The furnished room /
O. Henry -- A deal in wheat / Frank Norris -- The open boat / Stephen
Crane -- The lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser -- Paul's case / Willa
Cather -- To build a fire / Jack London -- I'm a fool / Sherwood
Anderson -- The golden homeymoon / Ring Lardner -- The afternoon of a
faun / Edna Ferber -- Humoresque / Fannie Hurst -- Silent snow,
secret snow / Conrad Aiken -- Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter
-- Big blonde / Dorothy Parker -- The secret life of Walter Mitty /
James Thurber -- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- A rose
for Emily / William Faulkner -- The devil and Daniel Webster /
Stephen Vincent Benet -- The snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway
-- The lost boy / Thomas Wolfe -- The red pony / John Steinbeck --
Gimpel the fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Imagine kissing Pete /
John O'Hara -- The daring young man on the flying trapeze / William
Saroyan -- Death of a traveling salesman / Eudora Welty -- Christ in
concrete / Pietro di Donato -- The country husband / John Cheever --
The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud -- A silver dish / Saul Bellow --
The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- There will come soft rains / Ray
Bradbury -- Welcome to the monkey house / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. -- A
Christmas memory / Truman Capote -- Tell me how long the train's been
gone / James Baldwin -- A good man is hard to find / Flannery
O'Connor -- Pigeon feathers / John Updike -- Where are you going,
where have you been / Joyce Carol Oates.
Book Details:
Language: eng
Physical Description: xvii, 1003 p. ; 24 cm.
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