Synopses & Reviews
The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe To Build a Fire” by Jack London
The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant
The Man Who Would Be King” by Rudyard Kipling
The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry
The South” by Jorge Luis Borges
Good Country People” by Flannery OConnor
The Blind Dog” by R. K. Narayan
and Fifteen Other Classic Tales in One Volume
Masterpieces by some of the finest writers ever to make words come alive on paper, the stories in this volume have been selected to represent the full spectrum of the storytellers art. Here are works of suspense, mystery, allegory, and human drama. Given sharpened focus through insightful editorial commentary, each of these tales is distinctive in style and visionand each is uniquely memorable.
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis
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.
About the Author
David Leavitts novels and story collections include
Family Dancing (finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award),
Arkansas,
The Lost Language of Cranes,
While England Sleeps (finalist for the
Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize), and
The Indian Clerk (finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Prize and shortlisted for the IMPAC/Dublin Award). His
Collected Stories appeared in 2003. A new novel,
The Two Hotel Francforts, is due out next year. He is codirector of MFA@FLA, the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Florida, where he edits the literary journal
Subtropics.
Aaron Thier received his BA from Yale and his MFA from the University of Florida. His essays and reviews appear frequently in The Nation and The New Republic, and he is a contributor to the popular narrative iPhone app called The Silent History.”
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)