The Great modern American stories
Subtitle: an anthology
By: compiled and edited with an introduction by William Dean Howells.
Contributors: Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920.; Boni & Liveright.
Series: The great modern stories series
Publisher: Boni and Liveright
Published: 1920
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 432
Copyright date: 1920
Subjects: Short stories, American
Notes: Copyright date from verso of t.p.
Table of contents: title: A reminiscent introduction / William Dean Howells; title: My double; and how he undid me / Edward Everett Hale; title: Circumstance / Harriet Prescott Spofford; title: The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain; title: A passionate pilgrim / Henry James; title: Mlle. Olympe Zabriski / T.B. Aldrich; title: A prodigal in Tahiti / Charles Warren Stoddard; title: The outcasts of Poker Flat / Francis Bret Harte; title: The Christmas wreck / Frank Stockton; title: The mission of Jane / Edith Wharton; title: The courting of Sister Wisby / Sarah Orne Jewett; title: The revolt of mother / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; title: Told in the poorhouse / Alice Brown; title: An occurrence at Owl Creek bridge / Ambrose Bierce; title: The return of a private / Hamlin Garland; title: Striking an average / Henry B. Fuller; title: Effie Wittlesy / George Ade.; title: The lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser; title: A failure / Edith Wyatt; title: The yellow wall paper / Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman; title: The little room / Madelene Yale Wynne; title: Aunt Sanna Terry / Landon R. Dashiell; title: The lotus eaters / Virginia Tracy; title: Jean-Ah Poquelin / G.W. Cable; title: Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, and the Tar Baby / Joel Chandler Harris; title: Biographical notes and bibliography (p. 419-432).