The American Short Story
Subtitle: A Collection of the Best Known and Most Memorable Stories by the Great American Authors
Edition: First Galahad Books edition
Publisher: Galahad Books
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1024
ISBN-13: 9780883658734
Copyright date: 1994
Subjects: Fiction anthologies & collections; Short stories; United States; Short Stories (Anthologies); Sale Adult - Literature - Classics & Contemporary; Poetry; Sale Books; Fiction; Short stories, American; 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. 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.