 | ||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||
by Paul Negri
|
ISBN: 0486421198 Dover Publications Price: $3.50 |
click here to see this book |
Featuring 19 of the finest works in the American short-story tradition, this compilation includes: "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Bartleby" by Herman Melville, "To Build a Fire" by Jack London, "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway, plus stories by Hawthorne, Twain, Cather, and others.
Table of Contents for Great American Short Stories
| 1 Nathaniel Hawthorne: Young Goodman Brown (1835) | |||||||
| 2 Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart (1843) | |||||||
| 3 Herman Melville: Bartleby (1856) | |||||||
| 4 Bret Harte: The Luck of Roaring Camp (1870) | |||||||
| 5 Stephen Crane: The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky (1878) | |||||||
| 6 Mark Twain: The Private History of a Campaign that Failed (1885) | |||||||
| 7 Sarah Orne Jewett: A White Heron (1886) | |||||||
| 8 Charles Waddell Chesnutt: The Goophered Grapevine (1887) | |||||||
| 9 Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: A New England Nun (1891) | |||||||
| 10 Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) | |||||||
| 11 Henry James: The Real Thing (1893) | |||||||
| 12 Kate Chopin: A Pair of Silk Stockings (1897) | |||||||
| 13 Jack London: To Build a Fire (1908) | |||||||
| 14 Ambrose Bierce: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1909) | |||||||
| 15 Theodore Dreiser: The Lost Phoebe (1916) | |||||||
| 16 Willa Cather: Paul’s Case (1920) | |||||||
| 17 F. Scott Fitzgerald: Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1920) | |||||||
| 18 Sherwood Anderson: The Egg (1921) | |||||||
| 19 Ernest Hemingway: The Killers (1927) |