Great American Short Stories: Hawthorne, Poe, Cather, Melville, London, James, Crane, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Bierce, Twain & More
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Book Overview
Featuring 19 of the finest works from the most distinguished writers in the American short-story tradition, this new compilation begins with Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1835 tale "Young Goodman Brown" and ranges across an entire century, concluding with Ernest Hemingway's 1927 classic, "The Killers." Other selections include Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," Melville's "Bartleby," Harte's "The Luck of Roaring Camp," "To Build a Fire," by Jack London, "The Real Thing" by Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," plus stories by Mark Twain, Sarah Orne Jewett, Charles Chesnutt, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Willa Cather, Ambrose Bierce, Theodore Dreiser, and others. Perfect for classroom use, this outstanding collection of tales will also prove popular with fiction readers everywhere.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0486421198
ISBN13:9780486421193
Release Date:July 2002
Publisher:Dover Publications
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.46 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.3" x 8.3"
Age Range:14 years and up
Grade Range:Grade 9 and higher
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Title says it all
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
Fine works from the masters, what alse can I say an outstanding collection of works.
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
This is actually a very good book to have. It was bought for a class in English Literature, but it has some good stories in it. I would be willing to read some of the non-assigned stories from this book. Best part- its a small book.
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