| Great Short Stories by American Women Contributor(s): Ward, Candace (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0486287769 ISBN-13: 9780486287768 Publisher: Dover Publications OUR PRICE: $7.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1996 Annotation: Choice collection of 13 stories includes "Life in the Iron Mills" by Rebecca Harding Davis, Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat," plus superb fiction by Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, many others. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Anthologies (multiple Authors) - Fiction | Classics - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 95047923 |
| Series: Dover Thrift Editions |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 5.18" W x 8.22" (0.36 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Embracing a wide variety of subjects, this choice collection of 13 short stories represents the work of an elite group of American women writing in the 19th and earthly 20th centuries. The earliest stories are Rebecca Harding Davis' naturalistic Life in the Iron Mills (published in 1861 and predating mile Zola's Germinal by almost 25 years) and Louisa May Alcott's semiautobiographical tale Transcendental Wild Oats (1873). The most recent ones are Zora Neale Hurston's Sweat, an ironic tale of a failed marriage, published in 1926, and Sanctuary (1930), Nella Larsen's gripping and controversial tale of contested loyalty. In between is a grand cavalcade of superbly crafted fiction by Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Djuna Barnes, Susan Glaspell and Edith Wharton. Brief biographies of each of the writers are included. |