The American short story : a collection of the best known and most memorable short stories by the great American authors
(1994)
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
FICTION/AMERICAN/SC
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Galahad Books, 1994
DESCRIPTION
xvii, 1003 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0883658739
LANGUAGE
English
CONTENTS
Rip Van Winkle ;
Legend of Sleepy Hollow /
Washington Irving -- Rappaccini's daughter /
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Fall of the House of Usher ;
Murders in the Rue Morgue ;
Purloined letter /
Edgar Allan Poe -- Benito Cereno /
Herman Melville -- Man without a country /
Edward Everett Hale -- Lady, or the tiger /
Frank R. Stockton -- Celebrated jumping from of Calaveras County ;
Man that corrupted Hadleyburg /
Mark Twain -- Luck of Roaring Camp ;
Outcasts of Poker Flat /
Bret Harte -- Marjorie Daw /
Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- Damned thing ;
An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge /
Ambrose Bierce -- Turn of the screw /
Henry James -- Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, and the Tar Baby /
Joel Chandler Harris -- A white heron /
Sarah Orne Jewett -- Story of the other wise man /
Henry Van Dyke -- Return of a private /
Hamlin Garland -- Mission of Jane /
Edith Wharton -- Gift of the Magi ;
Furnished room /
O. Henry -- A deal in wheat /
Frank Norris -- Open boat /
Stephen Crane -- Lost Phoebe /
Theodore Dreiser -- Paul's case /
Willa Cather -- To build a fire /
Jack London -- I'm a fool /
Sherwood Anderson -- Golden homeymoon /
Ring Lardner -- Afternoon of a faun /
Edna Ferber -- Humoresque /
Fannie Hurst -- Silent snow, secret snow /
Conrad Aiken -- Flowering Judas /
Katherine Anne Porter -- Big blonde /
Dorothy Parker -- Secret life of Walter Mitty /
James Thurber -- Babylon revisited /
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- A rose for Emily /
William Faulkner -- Devil and Daniel Webster /
Stephen Vincent Benét -- Snows of Kilimanjaro /
Ernest Hemingway -- Lost boy /
Thomas Wolfe -- Red pony /
John Steinbeck -- Gimpel the fool /
Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Imagine kissing Pete /
John O'Hara -- Daring young man on the flying trapeze /
William Saroyan -- Death of a traveling salesman /
Eudora Welty -- Christ in concrete /
Pietro Di Donato -- Country husband /
John Cheever -- Magic barrel /
Bernard Malamud -- A silver dish /
Saul Bellow -- Lottery /
Shirley Jackson -- There will come soft rains /
Ray Bradbury -- Welcome to the monkey house /
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. -- A Christmas memory /
Truman Capote -- Tell me how long the train's been going /
James Baldwin -- A good man is hard to find /
Flannery O'Connor -- Pigeon feathers /
John Updike -- Where are you going, where have you been? /
Joyce Carol Oates