Synopses & Reviews
Includes 33 stories of the American South from such literary luminaries as Edgar Allan Poe, Alice Walker, Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Eudora Welty, Truman Capote, Alice Childress, Flannery O'Connor, and many others.
Table of Contents
The Signet Classic Book of Southern Short Stories WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS: Confessions of a Murderer (1829)
AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET: The Dance (1833)
EDGAR ALLAN POE: A Tale of the Ragged Mountains (1844)
SUSAN PETIGRU KING: A Marriage of Persuasion (1857)
GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE: Jean-ah Poquelin (1875)
CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON: Felipa (1876)
CHARLES W. CHESTNUTT: The Sheriff's Children (1889)
KATE CHOPIN: La Belle Zoraïde (1894)
ALICE DUNBAR-NELSON: Tony's Wife (1899)
SARAH BARNWELL ELLIOTT: The Heart of It (late 1890s)
ELLEN GLASGOW: Dare's Gift (1917)
ZORA NEALE HURSTON: Drenched in Light (1924)
WILLIAM FAULKNER: Dry September (1930)
ERSKINE CALDWELL: Kneel to the Rising Sun (1935)
CAROLINE GORDON: The Last Day in the Field (1935)
ROBERT PENN WARREN: When the Light Gets Green (1936)
RICHARD WRIGHT: Big Boy Leaves Home (1936)
MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS: The Pelican's Shadow (1940)
CARSON MCCULLERS: A Tree * A Rock * A Cloud (1942)
FRANK YERBY: Health Card (1944)
TENNSSEE WILLIAMS: The Angel in the Alcove (1948)
EUDORA WELTY: No Place for You, My Love (1952)
NANCY HALE: The New Order (1954)
TRUMAN CAPOTE: A Christmas Memory (1956)
ALICE CHILDRESS: Northerners Can Be So Smug (1956)
ELIZABETH SPENCER: First Dark (1959)
ELLEN DOUGLAS: On the Lake (1961)
ERNEST J. GAINES: The Sky Is Gray (1963)
PETER TAYLOR: Two Pilgrims (1963)
FLANNERY O'CONNOR: Revelation (1964)
DIANE OLIVER: Neighbors (1966)
ARNA BONTEMPS: Talk to the Music (1971)
DORIS BETTS: The Ugliest Pilgrim (1973)
ALICE WALKER: Everyday Use (1973)