50 great American short stories
By: edited and with an introduction by Milton Crane
Contributors: Crane, Milton, 1917-
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 1983
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 502
Other titles: Fifty great American short stories.
Table of contents: title: Adventure of the German student / Washington Irving; title: Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: Ms. found in a bottle / Edgar Allan Poe; title: Fiddler; title: Herman Melville; title: What was it? / Fitz-James O'Brien; title: Luck / Mark Twain; title: Outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte; title: Diamond thing / Ambrose Bierce; title: Two faces / Henry James; title: A New England nun / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; title: Courting of Sister Wisby / Sarah Orne Jewett; title: The dilettante / Edith Wharton; title: Masters of arts / O. Henry; title: Effie Whittlesy / George Ade; title: Mr. Dooley on the popularity of firemen / Finley Peter Dunne; title: Bride comes to Yellow Sky / Stephen Crane; title: (cont.) A dead issue / Charles M. Flandrau; title: The lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser; title: Father is firm with his ailments / Clarence Day; title: Death in the woods / Sherwood Anderson; title: To build a fire / Jack London; title: Use of force / William Carlos Williams; title: Old folks' Christmas / Ring W. Lardner; title: Silent snow, secret snow / Conrad Aiken; title: By the waters of Babylon / Stephen Vincent Benet; title: Soldiers of the republic / Dorothy Parker; title: Mr. Preble gets rid of his wife / James Thurber; title: Cluney McFarrar's hardtack / John McNulty; title: Darkness of the night / Robert M. Coates; title: The old people / William Faulkner; title: Grapes for Monsieur Cape / Ludwig Bemelmans; title: A man of the world / Ernest Hemingway; title: The hour of letdown / W.E.B. White; title: (cont.)  The resting place / Oliver La Farge; title: The touch of nutmeg makes it / John Collier; title: The harness / John Steinbeck; title: Friend of the family / Kay Boyle; title: The rumor / Erskine Caldwell; title: There was a young lady of Perth / William Saroyan; title: Downfall of fascism in Black Ankle County / Joseph Mitchell; title: The French scarecrow / William Maxwell; title: Blue-winged teal / Wallace Stegner; title: Archimandrite's niece / James Reid Parker; title: A mother's tale / James Agee; title: National pastime / John Cheever; title: Girls in their summer dresses / Irwin Shaw; title: Death of Shorty / Richard P. Russell; title: Grandma and the Hindu monk / Seymour Freedgood; title: Madame Zilensky and the king of Finland / Carson McCullers; title: Lucid eye in Silver Town / John Updike.