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Stories of the Old South / edited by Ben Forkner and Patrick Samway, S.J.
LIBRA - Special PS551 .S76 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, American--Southern States.
- Short stories, American.
- Southern States.
- Southern States--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 514 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 1995.
- Summary:
- Mining the same terrain as in their previous collection, Stories of the Modern South, Forkner and Samway turn their attention to an earlier era. Most of the stories in this collection were written in the 19th century.
- Contents:
- Two gentlemen of Kentucky / J.L. Allen
- A summer tragedy / A.W. Bontemps
- Jean-ah Poquelin / G.W. Cable
- The web of circumstance / C.W. Chesnutt
- Athenaise: a story of a temperament / K. Chopin
- The "Harnt" that walks Chilhowee / C.E. Craddock (M.N. Murfree)
- A day at Chee-Ha / W. Elliott
- The last day at Chee-Ha / W. Elliott
- Mountain victory / W. Faulkner
- Jordan's end / E. Glasgow
- Mrs. Yardley's quilting / G.W. Harris
- Free Joe and the rest of the world / J.C. Harris
- A municipal report / O. Henry (W.S. Porter)
- The captain attends a camp meeting / J.J. Hooper
- The gilded six-bits / Z.N. Hurston
- A legend of Maryland / J.P. Kennedy
- The little convent girl / G. King
- The horse-swap / A.B. Longstreet
- Mister McGregor / A.N. Lytle
- Marse Chan: A tale of old Virginia / T.N. Page
- The gold-bug / E.A. Poe
- The old order / K.A. Porter
- The haunted palace / E.M. Roberts
- How sharp Snaffles got his capital and wife / W.G. Simms
- The indefatigable bear-hunter / M. Tensas, M.D. (Henry C. Lewis)
- The big bear of Arkansas / T.B. Thorpe
- Blood-burning moon / J. Toomer
- The private history of a campaign that failed / M. Twain (S.L. Clemens)
- First love / E. Welty
- The bell remembered / T. Wolfe
- Silt / R. Wright.
- ISBN:
- 0140247076
- 9780140247077
- OCLC:
- 34197308
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