The portable American realism reader
By: edited and with introductions by James Nagel and Tom Quirk.
Contributors: Nagel, James.; Quirk, Tom, 1946-
Series: The Viking portable library
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 591
Subjects: American fiction -- 19th century.; American fiction -- 20th century.; Short stories, American.; Naturalism -- Fiction.; Realism -- Fiction.
Other titles: American realism and naturalism reader
Description: The Portable American Realism Reader collects forty-seven of the best stories published in the United States between 1865 and 1918 - the most celebrated period of short fiction in American literary history.

This great flowering of talent includes such classic stories as Mark Twain's "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog," Bret Harte's "The Luck of Roaring Camp," Ambrose Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," and Henry James's "The Beast in the Jungle." The volume's editors have also expanded the sweep of American Realism to embrace works by less well known African-American, Asian-American, and Native-American writers.

In addition, there is a special emphasis on the contributions of women writers to this crucial period of American letters, with stories by Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Mary Austin, among others.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [589]-591).