Title: The Oxford book of American short stories /
Authors: Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 1992
Subjects: Short stories, American; Short stories; Medicine in Literature; United States Social life and customs Fiction
Abstract: Collection of fifty-six American short stories and biographical information about each author.
Contents: Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- Peter Rugg, the missing man / William Austin -- The wives of the dead / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids / Herman Melville -- The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- The ghost in the mill / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Cannibalism in the cars / Samuel Clemens -- A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett -- The storm / Kate Chopin -- The sheriff's children / Charles Chesnutt -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The middle years / Henry James -- In a far country / Jack London -- Old woman Magoun / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- The little regiment / Stephen Crane -- A journey / Edith Wharton -- The strength of God / Sherwood Anderson -- A death in the desert / Willa Cather -- Blood-burning moon / Jean Toomer -- A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway -- An alcoholic case / F. Scott Fitzgerald --