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Great American short stories / Edited by Paul Negri.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Dover thrift editionsPublication details: Garden City, New York : Dover Publications, 2002.Description: v, 248 pages ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780486421193
  • 0486421198
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813.08
LOC classification:
  • PS 648 G786 2002
Contents:
1 Nathaniel Hawthorne: Young Goodman Brown (1835)2 Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)3 Herman Melville: Bartleby (1856)4 Bret Harte: The Luck of Roaring Camp (1870)5 Stephen Crane: The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky (1878)6 Mark Twain: The Private History of a Campaign that Failed (1885)7 Sarah Orne Jewett: A White Heron (1886)8 Charles Waddell Chesnutt: The Goophered Grapevine (1887)9 Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: A New England Nun (1891)10 Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)11 Henry James: The Real Thing (1893)12 Kate Chopin: A Pair of Silk Stockings (1897)13 Jack London: To Build a Fire (1908)14 Ambrose Bierce: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1909)15 Theodore Dreiser: The Lost Phoebe (1916)16 Willa Cather: Paul’s Case (1920)17 F. Scott Fitzgerald: Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1920)18 Sherwood Anderson: The Egg (1921)19 Ernest Hemingway: The Killers (1927)
Summary: Featuring 19 of the finest works from the most distinguished writers in the American short-story tradition, this compilation includes: "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Bartleby" by Herman Melville, "The Luck of Roaring Camp" by Bret Harte, "To Build a Fire" by Jack London, "The Real Thing" by Henry James, "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway, plus stories by Hawthorne, Twain, Cather, Bierce, Dreiser, and others.
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1 Nathaniel Hawthorne: Young Goodman Brown (1835)2 Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)3 Herman Melville: Bartleby (1856)4 Bret Harte: The Luck of Roaring Camp (1870)5 Stephen Crane: The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky (1878)6 Mark Twain: The Private History of a Campaign that Failed (1885)7 Sarah Orne Jewett: A White Heron (1886)8 Charles Waddell Chesnutt: The Goophered Grapevine (1887)9 Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: A New England Nun (1891)10 Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)11 Henry James: The Real Thing (1893)12 Kate Chopin: A Pair of Silk Stockings (1897)13 Jack London: To Build a Fire (1908)14 Ambrose Bierce: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1909)15 Theodore Dreiser: The Lost Phoebe (1916)16 Willa Cather: Paul’s Case (1920)17 F. Scott Fitzgerald: Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1920)18 Sherwood Anderson: The Egg (1921)19 Ernest Hemingway: The Killers (1927)

Featuring 19 of the finest works from the most distinguished writers in the American short-story tradition, this compilation includes: "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Bartleby" by Herman Melville, "The Luck of Roaring Camp" by Bret Harte, "To Build a Fire" by Jack London, "The Real Thing" by Henry James, "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway, plus stories by Hawthorne, Twain, Cather, Bierce, Dreiser, and others.

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