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

The Signet Classic Book of American Short Stories

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

557 pages • first pub 1985 (editions)

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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 ...

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