American short stories, 1820 to the present / [edited by] Eugene Current-García, Walton R. Patrick.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Current-García, Eugene.

Patrick, Walton R.

Library of Theodore Dreiser (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Key editions.

Key editions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, American.

Genre:

Short stories, American.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

lii, 633 pages : facsimiles ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Scott, Foresman and Co., [1952]

Contents:

Rip Van Winkle ; The stout gentleman / Washington Irving

Young Goodman Brown ; Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne

The cask of Amontillado ; The purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe

Bart Davis's dance / George Washington Harris

Bartleby / Herman Melville

Baker's blue-jay yarn / Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Tennessee's partner / Bret Harte

Editha / William Dean Howells

The coup de grâce / Ambrose Bierce

Europe ; The jolly corner / Henry James

Free Joe and the rest of the world / Joel Chandler Harris

The Dulham ladies / Sarah Orne Jewett

A New England nun / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Under the lion's paw / Hamlin Garland

Mammon and the archer / William Sidney Porter

The Blue Hotel ; The bride comes to Yellow Sky / Stephen Crane

Free / Theodore Dreiser

Neighbour Rosicky / Willa Cather

Death in the woods / Sherwood Anderson

The use of force / William Carlos Williams

The love nest / Ring Lardner

Blue murder / Wilbur Daniel Steele

Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter

The catbird seat / James Thurber

The baby party / F. Scott Fitzgerald

Was / William Faulkner

A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway

The white quail / John Steinbeck

Bick Buck / Erskine Caldwell

Winter night / Kay Boyle

The pomegranate trees / William Saroyan

Livvie / Eudora Welty

Stickman's laughter / Nelson Algren

The girls in their summer dresses / Irwin Shaw

The forks / James Farl Powers.

OCLC:

680872