Great American Short Stories
Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Pleasantville, New York
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9780895770332
Copyright date: 1977
Table of contents: title: Winter dreams / F. Scott Fitzgerald --; title: What stumped the bluejays / Mark Twain --; title: To build a fire / Jack London --; title: A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell --; title: The storm / Jesse Stuart --; title: The pioneer hep-cat / John O'Hara --; title: The furnished room / O. Henry --; title: I can't breathe / Ring Lardner --; title: The short happy life of Francis Macomber / Ernest Hemingway --; title: A New England Nun / Mary E. Wilkins --; title: The Chrysanthemum / John Steinbeck --; title: The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe --; title: The man who saw the flood / Richard Wright --; title: Barn burning / William Faulkner --; title: The yellow wall paper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman --; title: Hook / Walter Van Tilburg Clark --; title: The key / Eudora Welty --; title: The shore line at sunset / Ray Bradbury --; title: The idyl of Miss Sarah Brown / Damon Runyon --; title: Coroner's inquest / Marc Connelly --; title: Roman fever / Edith Wharton --; title: The outcasts of poker flat / Bret Harte --; title: The last gas station / Shirley Ann Grau --; title: The fifty-first dragon / Heywood Broun --; title: Sir Edmund Orme / Henry Jame --; title: The daemon lover / Shirley Jackson --; title: The blue hotel / Stephen Crane --; title: You'll never know, dear, how much i love you / John Updike --; title: The beauty / Pearl S. Buck --; title: The devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benet --; title: Winter night / Kay Boyle --; title: Bartleby the scrivener / Herman Melville --; title: Christmas is a sad season for the poor / John Cheever --; title: The boarded window / Ambrose Bierce --; title: Jug of silver / Truman Capote --; title: Night club / Katharine Brush --; title: The lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser --; title: The most dangerous game / Richard Connell --; title: The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud --; title: If Grant had been drinking at Appomattox / James Thurber --; title: The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving --; title: The music of Erich Zann / H.P. Lovecraft --; title: Enoch and the gorilla / Flannery O'Connor --; title: The untold lie / Sherwood Anderson --; title: Horse thief / Erskine Caldwell --; title: The haunted boy / Carson McCullers --; title: The valiant woman / J.F. Powers --; title: The minister's wife / Nathaniel Hawthorne --; title: The rockpile / James Baldwin --; title: The enchanted bluff / Willa Cather --; title: O how she laughed / Conrad Aiken.