100 Great American Short Stories

100 Great American Short Stories PDF Author: John Grafton
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486847594
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1040

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Book Description
Includes "The Eyes of the Panther," Ambrose Bierce; "The Locket," Kate Chopin; "Out of Season," Ernest Hemingway; "The Black Cat," Edgar Allan Poe; "Luck," Mark Twain; "The Dilettante," Edith Wharton; more.

100 Great American Short Stories

100 Great American Short Stories PDF Author: John Grafton
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486847594
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1040

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Book Description
Includes "The Eyes of the Panther," Ambrose Bierce; "The Locket," Kate Chopin; "Out of Season," Ernest Hemingway; "The Black Cat," Edgar Allan Poe; "Luck," Mark Twain; "The Dilettante," Edith Wharton; more.

Great American Short Stories

Great American Short Stories PDF Author: Paul Negri
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486114678
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Book Description
Features 19 gems in the American short-story tradition, including "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Bartleby" by Herman Melville, "To Build a Fire" by Jack London, plus stories by Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Hawthorne, Twain, others.

The Best American Short Stories of the Century

The Best American Short Stories of the Century PDF Author: John Updike
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395843673
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 868

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Book Description
Including one new story and an Index by author of every story that has ever appeared in the series, this new volume offers a "spectacular tapestry of fictional achievement" ("Entertainment Weekly").

100 Great Short Stories

100 Great Short Stories PDF Author: James Daley
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486803287
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 766

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Book Description
"This is a wonderful collection of authors from America and around the world. Centuries are covered, making this a great resource for English teachers and any lover of literature." — Life Community Church This treasury of one hundred tales offers students and other readers of short fiction a splendid selection of stories by masters of the form. Contributors from around the world include Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Dickens, Anton Chekhov, Mark Twain, Saki, Luigi Pirandello, Kate Chopin, and Ring Lardner. The stories, which are arranged chronologically, begin with tales by Daniel Defoe ("The Apparition of Mrs. Veal," 1705), Benjamin Franklin ("Alice Addertongue," 1732), and Washington Irving ("The Devil and Tom Walker," 1824). Highlights from the nineteenth century include Ivan Turgenev's "The District Doctor" (1852), Sarah Orne Jewett's "A White Heron" (1886), Thomas Hardy's "Squire Petrick's Lady" (1891), and Rudyard Kipling's "Wee Willie Winkie" (1899). From the twentieth century come James Joyce's "Araby" (1914), Franz Kafka's "The Judgment" (1916), Virginia Woolf's "The Mark on the Wall" (1921), "The Broken Boot" (1923) by John Galsworthy, and many others. "A fabulous collections of stories sure to please any reader! The chronological layout is perfect for those looking to explore the development of stories over time and their relation to society." — Whitchurch-Stouffville Public Library

100 Years of the Best American Short Stories

100 Years of the Best American Short Stories PDF Author: Lorrie Moore
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547485859
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 753

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Book Description
Collects forty short stories published between 1915 and 2015, from writers that include Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, and Alice Munro that exemplify their era and stand the test of time --

Great English Short Stories

Great English Short Stories PDF Author: Paul Negri
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486114171
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 227

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Book Description
DIVFirst-rate selections include Hardy's "The Fiddler of the Reels," James' "Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad," Dickens' "The Haunted Hotel," and tales by Saki, Kipling, Lawrence, Trollope, Stevenson, and others. /div

The Best American Short Stories 2003

The Best American Short Stories 2003 PDF Author: Katrina Kenison
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618197330
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Book Description
Best-selling author Walter Mosley has selected the year's top fiction from voices well-known and new. Here several authors bring their stories to vivid life for a banner audio edition.

Great American Short Stories

Great American Short Stories PDF Author: Troll Books
Publisher: Troll Communications
ISBN: 9780816707980
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Book Description
An anthology of classic American writers including, O. Henry, Steven Crane, Jack London, Ambrose Bierce and Mary Wilkins Freeman.

The Oxford Book of American Short Stories

The Oxford Book of American Short Stories PDF Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195092622
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 788

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Book Description
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, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.

The Best American Short Stories 2014

The Best American Short Stories 2014 PDF Author: Jennifer Egan
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547819226
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 389

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Book Description
Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.