The American Short Story
Subtitle: a treasury of the memorable and familiar, by the great American writers from Washington Irving to Saul Bellow
By: edited by Thomas K. Parkes
Publisher: State Street Press; Galahad Books
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1003
ISBN-13: 9780681646872
Copyright date: 1994
Subjects: American Short stories; Manners and customs; Fiction; Social life and customs
Table of contents: title: Rip Van Winkle ; The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving; title: Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: The fall of the House of Usher ; The murders in the Rue Morgue ; The purloined letter / Edgar Allen Poe; title: Benito Cereno / Herman Melville; title: The man without a country / Edward Everett Hale; title: The lady, or the tiger / Frank R. Stockton; title: The celebrated jumping from of Calaveras County ; The man that corrupted Hadleyburg / Mark Twain; title: The luck of Roaring Camp ; The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte; title: Marjorie Daw / Thomas Bailey Aldrich; title: The damned thing ; An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce; title: The turn of the screw / Henry James; title: Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, and the Tar Baby / Joel Chandler Harris; title: A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett; title: The story of the other wise man / Henry Van Dyke; title: The return of a private / Hamlin Garland; title: The mission of Jane / Edith Wharton; title: The gift of the Magi ; The furnished room / O. Henry; title: A deal in wheat / Frank Norris; title: The open boat / Stephen Crane; title: The lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser; title: Paul's case / Willa Cather; title: To build a fire / Jack London; title: I'm a fool / Sherwood Anderson; title: The golden homeymoon / Ring Lardner; title: The afternoon of a faun / Edna Ferber; title: Humoresque / Fannie Hurst; title: Silent snow, secret snow / Conrad Aiken; title: Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter; title: Big blonde / Dorothy Parker; title: The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber.; title: Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald; title: A rose for Emily / William Faulkner; title: The Devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benét; title: The snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway; title: The lost boy / Thomas Wolfe; title: The red pony / John Steinbeck; title: Gimpel the fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer; title: Imagine kissing Pete / John O'Hara; title: The daring young man on the flying trapeze / William Saroyan; title: Death of a traveling salesman / Eudora Welty; title: Christ in concrete / Pietro Di Donato; title: The country husband / John Cheever; title: The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud; title: A silver dish / Saul Bellow; title: The lottery / Shirley Jackson; title: There will come soft rains / Ray Bradbury; title: Welcome to the monkey house / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.; title: A Christmas memory / Truman Capote; title: Tell me how long the train's been going / James Baldwin; title: A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor; title: Pigeon feathers / John Updike; title: Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates.