| Great Short Stories by Great American Writers Contributor(s): Fasano, Thomas (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0982129874 ISBN-13: 9780982129876 Publisher: Coyote Canyon Press OUR PRICE: $14.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: 813.010 |
| LCCN: 2010031207 |
| Physical Information: 0.92" H x 6" W x 9" (1.33 lbs) 412 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Featuring 30 of the greatest short stories from the most distinguished writers in the American short-story tradition, this new anthology begins with Washington Irving's tale "Rip Van Winkle" and ranges across more than one hundred years of storytelling, concluding with F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic, "Winter Dreams." Other selections include Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher," Melville's "Bartleby, The Scrivener," Harte's "The Luck of Roaring Camp," "To Build a Fire," by Jack London, "The Middle Years" by Henry James, plus stories by Mark Twain, Sarah Orne Jewett, Charles Chesnutt, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Willa Cather, Ambrose Bierce, Theodore Dreiser, and others. Perfect for classroom use, this outstanding collection of short stories will also prove popular with fiction readers everywhere. |