Great American Short Stories
Publisher: Fall River Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 790
ISBN-13: 9781435162808
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: American Short stories; Fiction; Social life and customs; Manners and customs
Description: GREAT AMERICAN SHORT STORIES celebrates the short story as it was popularized in America in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The authors chosen for this volume were masters of the form, and the fifty stories collected here represent some of the best American writing of the past two centuries.
Table of contents: title: The legend of Sleepy Hollow; title: Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving; title: Young Goodman Brown; title: The minister's black veil; title: The fall of the house of Usher; title: The tell-tale heart; title: The purloined letter / Nathaniel Hawthorne / Edgar Allan Poe; title: Bartleby / Herman Melville; title: My contraband / Louisa May Alcott; title: The celebrated jumbing frog of Caleveras County / Mark Twain; title: The luck of Roaring Camp; title: The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte; title: An occurrance at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce; title: The real right thing; title: The best in the jungle / Henry James; title: A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett; title: Athenaise / Kate Chopin; title: The revolt of "Mother" / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; title: The wife of his youth / Charles W. Chestnut; title: The yellow wall-paper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman; title: The other two; title: Autres temps / Edith Wharton; title: The ransom of Red Chief; title: The gift of the Magi / O. Henry; title: The open boat; title: The bride comes to Yellow Sky / Stephen Crane; title: Build a fire / Jack London; title: The sculptor's funeral; title: Paul's case / Willa Cather; title: Sophistication; title: The egg / Sherwood Anderson; title: Bernice bobs her hair; title: The diamond as big as The Ritz / F. Scott Fitzgerald