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The greatest American short stories / edited by A. Grove Day and William F. Bauer.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Dreiser Library PS648.S5 G74 1953
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, American.
- Genre:
- Short stories, American.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 393 pages ; 22 cm
- Other Title:
- American short stories
- Place of Publication:
- New York : McGraw-Hill, [1953]
- Contents:
- Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving
- Ambitious guest / Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe
- Purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe
- Celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain
- Outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte
- Wonderful tar-baby story / John Chandler Harris
- Lady or the tiger? / Frank R. Stockton
- Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce
- Open boat / Stephen Crane
- Gift of the magi / O. Henry
- Paul's case / Willa Cather
- Lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser
- Fourth man / John Russell
- I'm a fool / Sherwood Anderson
- Haircut / Ring Lardner
- Devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benet
- Leader of the people / John Steinbeck
- Secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber
- Bear / William Faulkner
- Appendix A: Other American short-story classics
- Appendix B: Letter to the reader
- Appendix C: Sample analysis of "Rip Van Winkle."
- OCLC:
- 7914120
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