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Fifty Great American Short Stories

Author : Milton Crane

Publisher : Bantam Classics

Page : 512 pages

File Size : 22,61 MB

Release : 1984-08-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0553272942

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A brilliant, far-reaching collection of stories from Washington Irving to John Updike. The Classic Stories Edgar Allan Poe’s Ms. Found in a Bottle Bret Harte’s The Outcasts of Poker Flat Sherwood Anderson’s Death in the Woods Stephen Vincent Benét’s By the Waters of Babylon The Great Writers Melville James Dreiser Faulkner Hemingway Steinbeck McCullers The Little-Known Masterpieces Edith Wharton’s The Dilettante Finley Peter Dunne’s Mr. Dooley on the Popularity of Fireman Charles M. Flandrau’s A Dead Issue James Reid Parker’s The Archimandrite’s Niece



Great American Short Stories

Author : Paul Negri

Publisher : Courier Corporation

Page : 258 pages

File Size : 19,1 MB

Release : 2012-03-05

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0486114678

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Features 19 gems in the American short-story tradition, including "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Bartleby" by Herman Melville, "To Build a Fire" by Jack London, plus stories by Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Hawthorne, Twain, others.



The Oxford Book of American Short Stories

Author : Joyce Carol Oates

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 788 pages

File Size : 16,44 MB

Release : 1992

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9780195092622

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Book Description

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.



Fifty Great Short Stories

Author : Milton Crane

Publisher : Bantam Classics

Page : 594 pages

File Size : 19,87 MB

Release : 1983-08-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0553277456

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50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world’s finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, and Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, and James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Faulkner, E.B. White, Saroyan, and O’Connor. The variety in style and subject is enormous, but all these stories have one point in common—the enduring quality of the writing, which places them among the masterpieces of the world’s fiction.



The Best American Short Stories 2003

Author : Katrina Kenison

Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Page : 388 pages

File Size : 25,58 MB

Release : 2003

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9780618197330

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Best-selling author Walter Mosley has selected the year's top fiction from voices well-known and new. Here several authors bring their stories to vivid life for a banner audio edition.



American Short Story Masterpieces

Author : Clarence C. Strowbridge

Publisher : Courier Corporation

Page : 258 pages

File Size : 39,8 MB

Release : 2013-01-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0486499138

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An affordable compilation of more than a dozen of the best American short stories features tales by Hawthorne, Twain, James, Cheever, Wharton, and Cather. Contents include "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat," and "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty.



The Best American Short Stories 2014

Author : Jennifer Egan

Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Page : 389 pages

File Size : 28,62 MB

Release : 2014

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0547819226

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Book Description

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



50 Greatest Short Stories

Author : Terry O'Brien (Quiz master)

Publisher : Rupa Publications India

Page : 588 pages

File Size : 16,88 MB

Release : 2015-11-18

Category : Short stories

ISBN : 9788129137258

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Book Description

50 Greatest Short Stories is a selection from the best of the world's short fiction, bringing together writings by great masters of the genre. Carefully picked for their timeless quality, readers are sure to be delighted by the inclusion of such favourites as 'The Gift of the Magi', 'The Lady with the Dog', 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button', 'Rain' and 'Mrs Packletide's Tiger', to name but a few. This outstanding and wide-ranging anthology of stories is a collector's item, designed for readers to refresh their acquaintance with some of the world's finest writing and for newer readers to be introduced to it. Anton Chekov, Charles Dickens, Katherine Mansfield, Guy de Maupassant, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H. Rider Haggard, O. Henry, Rudyard Kipling, W.W. Jacobs, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Saki, Jerome K. Jerome, H.G. Wells, Kate Chopin, Ambrose Bierce, Jack London, Frank Stockton, Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen Leacock, James Joyce, Bram Stoker, Joseph Conrad, M. R. James, W. Somerset Maugham, R. L. Stevenson.



100 Great American Short Stories

Author : John Grafton

Publisher : Courier Dover Publications

Page : 1040 pages

File Size : 12,25 MB

Release : 2020-07-15

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0486847594

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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.



50 Great American Places

Author : Brent D. Glass

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 320 pages

File Size : 11,38 MB

Release : 2016-03-15

Category : History

ISBN : 1451682034

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Book Description

Profiles fifty sites across the United States that trace the cultural history of the country, discussing the people and events that led to each site's importance, from the National Mall in D.C. to Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.