The American Short Story
a treasury of the memorable and familiar, by the great American writers from Washington Irving to Saul Bellow
By Thomas K. Parkes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, John Steinbeck, Shirley Jackson and Ray Bradbury
"The American Short Story" was published by State Street Press in 1994 - Ann Arbor, Michigan, it has 1003 pages and the language of the book is English.
“The American Short Story” Metadata:
- Title: The American Short Story
- Authors: ➤ Thomas K. ParkesNathaniel HawthorneEdgar Allan PoeHerman MelvilleMark TwainAmbrose BierceEdith WhartonTheodore DreiserJack LondonF. Scott FitzgeraldWilliam FaulknerThomas WolfeJohn SteinbeckShirley JacksonRay Bradbury
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 1003
- Publisher: State Street Press
- Publish Date: 1994
- Publish Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
“The American Short Story” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ American Short stories - Fiction - Social life and customs - Manners and customs - Mystery and detective stories - monograms - Children's fiction - short story - tradition - change - death - short stories - allegory - nonlinear narrative - gentleman's agreements - recluses - Mentally ill women - American Horror tales - burial vaults - catalepsy - dragons - gothic fiction - hermitages - heroic romances - horror - horror tales - hysteria - knights - maces - psychogenic death - tarns - History - Classic Literature - Juvenile audience - civil war - hanging - American Civil War - Confederate States of America - Union - inquests - coroners - mountain lions
- People: ➤ Hugh Morgan - William Harker - Peyton Farquhar - C. Auguste Dupin - Minister D— - Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon - Giacomo Rappaccini - Giovanni Guasconti - Beatrice Rappaccini - Emily Grierson - Homer Barron - Mr. Grierson - Tobe - Colonel Sartoris - Roderick Usher - Madeline Usher - Ethelred
- Places: ➤ United States - Alabama - Owl Creek Bridge - Paris - Padua - India - Italy - University of Padua - Jefferson - Mississippi - Yoknapatawpha County
- Time: Antebellum era - 1861-65
Edition Specifications:
- Format: Hardcover
- Pagination: xvii, 1003 pages ;
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL26449098M - OL8593547W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 61856366 - 1001272844
- ISBN-13: 9780681646872
- ISBN-10: 068164687X
- All ISBNs: 068164687X - 9780681646872
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"The American Short Story" Table Of Contents:
- 1- Rip Van Winkle ; The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving
- 2- Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne
- 3- The fall of the House of Usher ; The murders in the Rue Morgue ; The purloined letter / Edgar Allen Poe
- 4- Benito Cereno / Herman Melville
- 5- The man without a country / Edward Everett Hale
- 6- The lady, or the tiger / Frank R. Stockton
- 7- The celebrated jumping from of Calaveras County ; The man that corrupted Hadleyburg / Mark Twain
- 8- The luck of Roaring Camp ; The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte
- 9- Marjorie Daw / Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- 10- The damned thing ; An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce
- 11- The turn of the screw / Henry James
- 12- Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, and the Tar Baby / Joel Chandler Harris
- 13- A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett
- 14- The story of the other wise man / Henry Van Dyke
- 15- The return of a private / Hamlin Garland
- 16- The mission of Jane / Edith Wharton
- 17- The gift of the Magi ; The furnished room / O. Henry
- 18- A deal in wheat / Frank Norris
- 19- The open boat / Stephen Crane
- 20- The lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser
- 21- Paul's case / Willa Cather
- 22- To build a fire / Jack London
- 23- I'm a fool / Sherwood Anderson
- 24- The golden homeymoon / Ring Lardner
- 25- The afternoon of a faun / Edna Ferber
- 26- Humoresque / Fannie Hurst
- 27- Silent snow, secret snow / Conrad Aiken
- 28- Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter
- 29- Big blonde / Dorothy Parker
- 30- The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber.
- 31- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 32- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner
- 33- The Devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benét
- 34- The snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway
- 35- The lost boy / Thomas Wolfe
- 36- The red pony / John Steinbeck
- 37- Gimpel the fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer
- 38- Imagine kissing Pete / John O'Hara
- 39- The daring young man on the flying trapeze / William Saroyan
- 40- Death of a traveling salesman / Eudora Welty
- 41- Christ in concrete / Pietro Di Donato
- 42- The country husband / John Cheever
- 43- The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud
- 44- A silver dish / Saul Bellow
- 45- The lottery / Shirley Jackson
- 46- There will come soft rains / Ray Bradbury
- 47- Welcome to the monkey house / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- 48- A Christmas memory / Truman Capote
- 49- Tell me how long the train's been going / James Baldwin
- 50- A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor
- 51- Pigeon feathers / John Updike
- 52- Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates.
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