The Penguin Book of American Short Stories by Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, Jack London, O. Henry, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Washington Irving, Willa Cather, James Cochrane, Henry James, Mark Twain, Truman Capote, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Updike, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Ambrose Bierce, Bret Harte, Bernard Malamud, Katherine Anne Porter, William Faulkner, Ring Lardner, Stephen Crane

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The Penguin Book of American Short Stories

Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, Jack London, O. Henry, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Washington Irving, Willa Cather, James Cochrane, Henry James, Mark Twain, Truman Capote, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Updike, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Ambrose Bierce, Bret Harte, Bernard Malamud, Katherine Anne Porter, William Faulkner, Ring Lardner, Stephen Crane

423 pages • first pub 1969 • 4 editions

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This collection offers twenty-one stories from the literature of America, a nation which has always been particularly at home in this form, and which has produced many of its masters.Some of the stories included — those by Poe, James and Hemingway...