The American short story a collection of the best known and most memorable short stories by the great American authors / edited by Thomas K. Parkes.
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TextPublisher: New York : Galahad Books, 1994Description: xvii, 1003 p. 24 cmISBN: 0883658739Subject(s): Short stories, American | United States -- Social life and customs -- FictionDDC classification: 813/.0108 LOC classification: PS648.S5 | A48 1994| Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | A J M Library 868-5076 | ST PARK (Browse shelf) | Available | 5463 |
Rip Van Winkle ; The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving -- Rappaccini’s daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The fall of the House of Usher ; The murders in the Rue Morgue ; The purloined letter / Edgar Allen Poe -- Benito Cereno / Herman Melville -- The man without a country / Edward Everett Hale -- The lady, or the tiger / Frank R. Stockton -- The celebrated jumping from of Calaveras County ; The man that corrupted Hadleyburg / Mark Twain -- The luck of Roaring Camp ; The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte -- Marjorie Daw / Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- The damned thing ; An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce -- The turn of the screw / Henry James -- Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, and the Tar Baby / Joel Chandler Harris -- A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett -- The story of the other wise man / Henry Van Dyke -- The return of a private / Hamlin Garland -- The mission of Jane / Edith Wharton -- The gift of the Magi ; The furnished room / O. Henry -- A deal in wheat / Frank Norris -- The open boat / Stephen Crane -- The lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser -- Paul’s case / Willa Cather -- To build a fire / Jack London -- I’m a fool / Sherwood Anderson -- The golden homeymoon / Ring Lardner -- The afternoon of a faun / Edna Ferber -- Humoresque / Fannie Hurst -- Silent snow, secret snow / Conrad Aiken -- Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter -- Big blonde / Dorothy Parker -- The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber --
Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner -- The Devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Beneþt -- The snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway -- The lost boy / Thomas Wolfe -- The red pony / John Steinbeck -- Gimpel the fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Imagine kissing Pete / John O’Hara -- The daring young man on the flying trapeze / William Saroyan -- Death of a traveling salesman / Eudora Welty -- Christ in concrete / Pietro Di Donato -- The country husband / John Cheever -- The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud -- A silver dish / Saul Bellow -- The 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.

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