num_pages: 1024
description: This entertaining collection--a panoramic survey of American literature--presents over two hundred years of great American short stories in more than 1,000 pages. From Washington Irving to Joyce Carol Oates, our nation's best writers are showcased at the top of their form.Selections from America's first great quartet of fiction writers--Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville--open this extraordinary volume and reflect the birth of a distinctly American literature. The short story form blossomed during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, giving rise to superb works of realism, naturalism, and regionalism. "The American Short Story" explores these traditions fully, with a wonderful sampling of writings from Ambrose Bierce, Edward Everett Hale, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Sarah Orne Jewett, Joel Chandler Harris, Frank Norris, Stephen Crane, Theodore Drieser, Henry James, Edith Wharton and many others. Stories like F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Babylon Revisited" and Ernest Hemingway's "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" capture the brilliance of "The Lost Generation" writers; the rich tradition of Southern storytelling come to life in works by William Faulkner, Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, and Flannery O'Connor; and, in works ranging from the sentimental to the satirical, the hard-hitting to the hilarious, writers like Saul Bellow, James Baldwin, John Updike, and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. illuminate the experiences of America's extraordinarily diverse population.
language: English
title: The American Short Story: A Collection of the Best Known and Most Memorable Short Stories by the Great American Authors
titlecomplete: The American Short Story: A Collection of the Best Known and Most Memorable Short Stories by the Great American Authors
genres: Classics, Anthologies, Short Stories, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 57
publisher: BBS Publishing Corporation