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

The Oxford Book of American Short Stories

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

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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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