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The Penguin book of American short stories / edited by James Cochrane.

Contributor(s): Language: English Publication details: Harmondsworth : Penguin Books, 1969.Description: 412 p; 18 cmISBN:
  • 9780241952849
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813.0108
LOC classification:
  • PS 648  P398 1969
Contents:
The legend od Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- Bartleby / Herman Melville -- The man that corrupted Hadleyburg / Mark Twain -- The outcasts of Poker Flat / Francis Bret Harte -- One of the missing / Ambrose Bierce -- The real thing / Henry James -- The unfinished story / O. Henry -- The bride comes to Yellow Sky / Stephen Crane -- Neighbor Rosicky / Willa Cather -- To build a fire / Jack London -- Death in the woods / Sherwood Anderson -- Who dealt? / Ring Lardner -- Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter -- The rich boy / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Delta autumn / William Faulkner -- The battler / Ernest Hemingway -- The jewbird / Bernard Malamud -- Children on their birthdays / Truman Capote -- Wife-wooing / John Updike.
Summary: A collection of twenty-one stories from America, a nation which has always been particularly at home with this form, and which has produced many of its masters. It includes stories by Poe, James and Hemingway, along with those ranging from Washington Irving to John Updike, via Ambrose Bierce, Willa Cather and Bernard Malamud.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PS 648 P398 1969 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000124408

The legend od Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving --
Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
The fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe --
Bartleby / Herman Melville --
The man that corrupted Hadleyburg / Mark Twain --
The outcasts of Poker Flat / Francis Bret Harte --
One of the missing / Ambrose Bierce --
The real thing / Henry James --
The unfinished story / O. Henry --
The bride comes to Yellow Sky / Stephen Crane --
Neighbor Rosicky / Willa Cather --
To build a fire / Jack London --
Death in the woods / Sherwood Anderson --
Who dealt? / Ring Lardner --
Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter --
The rich boy / F. Scott Fitzgerald --
Delta autumn / William Faulkner --
The battler / Ernest Hemingway --
The jewbird / Bernard Malamud --
Children on their birthdays / Truman Capote --
Wife-wooing / John Updike.

A collection of twenty-one stories from America, a nation which has always been particularly at home with this form, and which has produced many of its masters. It includes stories by Poe, James and Hemingway, along with those ranging from Washington Irving to John Updike, via Ambrose Bierce, Willa Cather and Bernard Malamud.

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