The Signet Classic Book of American Short Stories by Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, Rose Terry Cooke, Various, Zona Gale, Jack London, O. Henry, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Grace Elizabeth King, Washington Irving, Willa Cather, James Thurber, Hamlin Garland, Henry James, Mark Twain, Bayard Taylor, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Saroyan, Burton Raffel, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Vincent Benét, Harold Frederick, Bret Harte, Edith Wharton, John Dos Passos, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Sarah Orne Jewett, Francis Hopkinson Smith, William Faulkner, Stephen Crane, Kate Chopin, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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557 pages • paperback • first pub 1985 • 2 editions

fiction classics short stories reflective slow-paced

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This superb collection celebrates the astonishing growth of the short story in America, from the early nineteenth century to the outbreak of World War II. From the very beginnings of this youngest of literary forms, American writers have played a ...