The Treasury of American short stories
Item details
- ISBN: 0385171390 :
- ISBN: 9780385171397
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Physical Description:
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xvii, 748 p. ; 22 cm. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, c1981.
Contents / Notes
General Note: | Includes indexes. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The legend of Sleepy Hollow /- Washington Irving -- Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Ligeia / Edgar Allan Poe -- Bartleby the Scrivener / Herman Melville -- The 1,000,000 bank-note / Mark Twain -- The gentleman of La Porte / Bret Harte -- A horseman in the sky / Ambrose Bierce -- The real thing / Henry James -- The Hiltons' holiday / Sarah Orne Jewett -- A shameful affair / Kate Chopin -- The world and the door / O. Henry -- After Holbein / Edith Wharton -- The bride comes to Yellow Sky / Stephen Crane -- The lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser -- Neighbour Rosicky / Willa Cather -- The egg / Sherwood Anderson -- The god of his fathers / Jack London -- Life isn't a short story / Conrad Aiken -- The grave / Katherine Anne Porter -- You were perfectly fine / Dorothy Parker -- The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber -- The baby party / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- That evening sun / William Faulkner -- The light of the world / Ernest Hemingway -- Nothing ever breaks except the heart / Kay Boyle -- One for the road / John O'Hara -- A walk with Raschid / Josephine Jacobsen -- The daring young man on the flying trapeze / William Saroyan -- A worn path / Eudora Welty -- The night club in the woods / Hortense Calisher -- Torch Song / John Cheever -- The snowfall / Jean Garrigue -- In dreams begin responsibilities / Delmore Schwartz -- King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison -- Black is my favorite color / Bernard Malamud -- A silver dish / Saul Bellow -- The jockey / Carson McCullers -- The valiant woman / J. F. Powers -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- Three heroines / Peter Taylor -- An old-fashioned story / Jane Mayhall -- A 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 -- The last voyage / Tom Filer -- The 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 -- The Bulgarian Poetess / John Updike -- "I always wanted you to admire my fasting"; or, looking at Kafka / Philip Roth -- The screamers / LeRoi Jones -- The Kugelmass episode / Woody Allen -- A man who writes / Russell Edson -- In the region of ice / Joyce Carol Oates -- A matter of vocabulary / James Alan McPherson -- The farm / Joy Williams -- A reasonable man / Ann Beattie. |
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