| 100 Great American Short Stories: Bierce, Chopin, Crane, Hawthorne, Hemingway, London, Melville, Poe, Twain, Wharton & More Contributor(s): Grafton, John (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0486831841 ISBN-13: 9780486831848 Publisher: Dover Publications OUR PRICE: $12.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Anthologies (multiple Authors) - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: 813.010 |
| LCCN: 2019025965 |
| Series: Dover Thrift Editions |
| Physical Information: 2.2" H x 5.1" W x 8" (1.50 lbs) 1040 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This celebration of America's literary legacy, a companion volume to Dover's 100 Great Short Stories, offers students and other readers a superb selection of short fiction by master storytellers. Contributors include Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, O. Henry, Willa Cather, Washington Irving, Henry James, Edgar Allan Poe, Louisa May Alcott, and many others. The stories are arranged alphabetically by author. Selections from American literature of the nineteenth century include Herman Melville's "The Fiddler," Bret Harte's "The Outcasts of Poker Flat," "Adventure of the German Student" by Washington Irving, Ambrose Bierce's "The Eyes of the Panther," "The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane, and Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Ambitious Guest." More recent stories include Djuna Barnes' "A Night Among the Horses," Ernest Hemingway's "Up in Michigan," Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat," "To Build a Fire" by Jack London, Theodore Dreiser's "The Lost Phoebe," and "Jesus Christ in Texas" by W. E. B. Du Bois. |