The Signet Classic Book of American Short Stories
Contributors: Burton Raffel (Editor)
Edition: First Signet Classic Printing
Publisher: Signet Classic
Published: 1985-02
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: mass market paperback
Number of pages: 557
ISBN-13: 9780451522795
Copyright date: 1984
First sentence: On the summit of one of the heights of the Odenwald, a wild and romantic tract of Upper Germany that lies not far from the confluence of the Main and the Rhine, there stood, many, many years since, the Castle of the Baron Von Landshort.
Table of contents: title: The specter bridegroom / Washington Irving --; title: Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne --; title: The gold bug / Edgar Allan Poe --; title: Bartleby the scrivener / Herman Melville --; title: Miss Asphyxia / Harriet Beecher Stowe --; title: The Iliad of Sandy Bar / Bret Harte --; title: Who was she? / Bayard Taylor --; title: Grit / Rose Terry Cooke --; title: An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce --; title: The return of a private / Hamlin Garland --; title: A New England nun / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman --; title: The real thing / Henry James --; title: The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman --; title: The flight of Betsey Lane / Sarah O. Jewett --; title: La grande demoiselle / Grace Elizabeth King --; title: The war widow / Harold Frederic --; title: Madame Célestin's divorce / Kate Chopin --; title: The blue hotel / Stephen Crane --; title: A journey / Edith Wharton --; title: The man that corrupted Hadleyburg / Mark Twain --; title: All gold canyon / Jack London --; title: The rajah of Bungpore / F. Hopkinson Smith --; title: Nobody sick, nobody poor / Zona Gale --; title: One thousand dollars / O. Henry --; title: "Queer" / Sherwood Anderson --; title: Up in Michigan / Ernest Hemingway --; title: Great lady on a white horse / John Dos Passos --; title: The king of the cats / Stephen Vincent Benét --; title: Neighbour Rosicky / Willa Cather --; title: Turnabout / William Faulkner --; title: The evening's at seven / James Thurber --; title: The long way out / F. Scott Fitzgerald --; title: Ever fall in love with a midget? / William Saroyan.