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Great American Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)

by Paul Negri

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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.

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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.
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Table of Contents

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: Pauls Case (1920)

17 F. Scott Fitzgerald: Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1920)

18 Sherwood Anderson: The Egg (1921)

19 Ernest Hemingway: The Killers (1927)

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780486421193
Editor:
Negri, Paul
Publisher:
Dover Publications
Editor:
Negri, Paul
Author:
Negri, Paul
Author:
Dover Thrift Editions
Location:
Mineola, N.Y.
Subject:
Classics
Subject:
United states
Subject:
Short Stories (Anthologies)
Subject:
Short stories, American
Subject:
United States Social life and customs.
Subject:
Anthologies-General
Copyright:
2002
Edition Description:
Trade Paper
Series:
Dover Thrift Editions
Series Volume:
LS-404F
Publication Date:
20020723
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
from 9
Language:
English
Pages:
256
Dimensions:
8.25 x 5.19 in 0.46 lb
Age Level:
from 14
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