Oxford Book of American Short Stories by Joyce Carol Oates

Oxford Book of American Short Stories

Joyce Carol Oates with Kate Chopin, Henry James, Willa Cather, William Carlos Williams, Langston Hughes, Flannery O'Connor, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Eudora Welty, Bernard Malamud, John Cheever, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Jack London, Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Katherine Anne Porter, Edith Wharton, James Baldwin, Ray Bradbury, Saul Bellow, Ursula K. Le Guin, John Updike, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Raymond Carver, Washington Irving

768 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

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This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, A...

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