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The Oxford Book of American Short Stories
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 788

The Oxford Book of American Short Stories

This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.

The Best American Short Stories of the Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 868

The Best American Short Stories of the Century

Including one new story and an Index by author of every story that has ever appeared in the series, this new volume offers a "spectacular tapestry of fictional achievement" ("Entertainment Weekly").

The New Penguin Book of American Short Stories, from Washington Irving to Lydia Davis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 345

The New Penguin Book of American Short Stories, from Washington Irving to Lydia Davis

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-10-06
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  • Publisher: Penguin UK

The last 50 years have proved a particularly lively period in the history of the short story form. This new collection gives a full picture of the richness and diversity of this most American of genres from its very beginnings to the present day. The collection offers a freshly stimulating combination of old favourites such as Mark Twain's 'Jim Smiley's Jumping Frog' and Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart', unfamiliar works by well-known authors, such as Ernest Hemingway's 'Out of Season', Stephen Crane's 'An Episode of War' and F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Lost Decade' , and some remarkable stories by wonderful but less well known writers such as Mary Wilkins Freeman and Charles W. Chestn...

100 Great American Short Stories
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1043

100 Great American Short Stories

Includes "The Eyes of the Panther," Ambrose Bierce; "The Locket," Kate Chopin; "Out of Season," Ernest Hemingway; "The Black Cat," Edgar Allan Poe; "Luck," Mark Twain; "The Dilettante," Edith Wharton; more.

The Penguin Book of American Short Stories
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 451

The Penguin Book of American Short Stories

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011
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  • Publisher: Penguin UK

'American literature and the short story might be said to have come of age at about the same time, and this, along with something in the bustling and energetic American temperament, might go some way towards explaining why the two go together as well as they do.' Twenty-one short stories from some of the best American writers over the last two hundred years provide a mesmerizing, multi-faceted portrait of a country, a people and the unique literature produced by this most exuberant of nations.

The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 540

The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-12-18
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  • Publisher: Anchor

“In twenty-nine separate but ingenious ways, these stories seek permanent residence within a reader. They strive to become an emotional or intellectual cargo that might accompany us wherever, or however, we go. . . . If we are made by what we read, if language truly builds people into what they are, how they think, the depth with which they feel, then these stories are, to me, premium material for that construction project. You could build a civilization with them.” —Ben Marcus, from the Introduction Award-winning author of Notable American Women Ben Marcus brings us this engaging and comprehensive collection of short stories that explore the stylistic variety of the medium in America ...

The Oxford Book of American Short Stories
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 896

The Oxford Book of American Short Stories

Joyce Carol Oates has performed a full review of her acclaimed 1992 anthology, The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, and in this second edition embraces those authors who have come to define turn-of-the-century American literature. Jhumpa Lahiri, Junot Diaz, Richard Ford, and David Foster Wallace are just a few of the authors whose stories are now represented. Each story is accompanied by a brief introduction, and there is also a fascinating introductory essay by Joyce Carol Oates that explains why these stories form the foundation of the American literary canon, and the trends and innovations that have taken place in the last twenty years.

Classic American Short Stories
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 529

Classic American Short Stories

Seventeen short masterpieces, chosen for their timeless relevance and enduring popularity, include works by Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Bret Harte, O. Henry, Sherwood Anderson, Stephen Crane, Ambrose Bierce, Kate Chopin, and 9 others. Large print edition.

The Best American Short Stories 2020
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 397

The Best American Short Stories 2020

Presents a selection of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.

Great American Short Stories
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 258

Great American Short Stories

Featuring 19 of the finest works in the American short-story tradition, this compilation includes: "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Bartleby" by Herman Melville, "To Build a Fire" by Jack London, "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway, plus stories by Hawthorne, Twain, Cather, and others.