| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xvii, 748 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Note |
Includes indexes. |
| Contents |
Legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving -- Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Ligeia / Edgar Allan Poe -- Bartleby the scrivener / Herman Melville -- L.1,000,000 bank-note / Mark Twain -- Gentleman of La Porte / Bret Harte -- Horseman in the sky / Ambrose Bierce -- Real thing / Henry James -- Hiltons' holiday / Sarah Orne Jewett -- Shameful affair / Kate Chopin -- World and the door / O. Henry -- After Holbein / Edith Wharton -- Bride comes to Yellow Sky / Stephen Crane -- Lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser -- Neighbour Rosicky / Willa Cather -- Egg / Sherwood Anderson -- God of his fathers / Jack London -- Life isn't a short story / Conrad Aiken -- Grave / Katherine Anne Porter -- You were perfectly fine / Dorothy Parker -- Secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber -- Baby party / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Evening sun / William Faulkner -- Light of the world / Ernest Hemingway -- Nothing ever breaks except the heart / Kay Boyle -- One for the road / John O'Hara -- Walk with Raschid / Josephine Jacobsen -- Daring young man on the flying trapeze / William Saroyan -- Worn path / Eudora Welty -- Night club in the woods / Hortense Calisher -- Torch song / John Cheever -- Snowfall / Jean Garrigue -- In dreams begin responsibilities / Delmore Schwartz -- King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison -- Black is my favorite color / Bernard Malamud -- Silver dish / Saul Bellow -- Jockey / Carson McCullers -- Valiant woman / J.F. Powers -- Lottery / Shirley Jackson -- Three heroines / Peter Taylor -- Old-fashioned story / Jane Mayhall -- Conversation with my father / Grace Paley -- Welcome to the monkey house / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. -- Happy families / A.C. Hoffmann -- Sonny's blues / James Baldwin -- Children on their birthdays / Truman Capote -- Last voyage / Tom Filer -- Grandmother / John Hawkes -- Parker's back / Flannery O'Connor -- Light timber / Nancy Potter -- Voice of the town / Curtis Harnack -- Sand / W.S. Merwin -- Lost in the funhouse / John Barth -- Concerning the bodyguard / Donald Barthelme -- Bulgarian poetess / John Updike -- "I always wanted you to admire my fasting," or, Looking at Kafka / Philip Roth -- Screamers / LeRoi Jones -- Kugelmass episode / Woody Allen -- Man who writes / Russell Edson -- In the region of ice / Joyce Carol Oates -- Matter of vocabulary / James Alan McPherson -- Farm / Joy Williams -- Reasonable man / Ann Beattie. |
| Subject |
Short stories, American.
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United States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Sullivan, Nancy.
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| ISBN |
0385171390 : $16.95 |
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