Great American Short Novels
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: July 25, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 686
ISBN-13: 9780548061398
Subjects: Short Stories (Anthologies); Fiction - General
First sentence: IN THE year 1799, Captain Amasa Delano, of Duxbury, in Massachusetts, commanding a large sealer and general trader, lay at anchor, with a valuable cargo, in the harbour of St. Maria-a small, desert, uninhabited island towards the southern extremity of the long coast of Chili.