100 Great American Short Stories

Author : John Grafton
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486847594
Total Pages : 1040 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 100 Great American Short Stories written by John Grafton and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Paul Negri
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486114678
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great American Short Stories written by Paul Negri and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : John Updike
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395843673
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best American Short Stories of the Century written by John Updike and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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").

Author : James Daley
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486803287
Total Pages : 766 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 100 Great Short Stories written by James Daley and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2015-02-23 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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

Author : Lorrie Moore
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547485859
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories written by Lorrie Moore and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 --

Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195092622
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Book of American Short Stories written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Paul Negri
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486114171
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great English Short Stories written by Paul Negri and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Troll Books
Publisher : Troll Communications
ISBN 13 : 9780816707980
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great American Short Stories written by Troll Books and published by Troll Communications. This book was released on 1997-01-30 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of classic American writers including, O. Henry, Steven Crane, Jack London, Ambrose Bierce and Mary Wilkins Freeman.

Author : Katrina Kenison
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618197330
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best American Short Stories 2003 written by Katrina Kenison and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Peter S. Prescott
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393026191
Total Pages : 779 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Norton Book of American Short Stories written by Peter S. Prescott and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1988 with total page 779 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting the fertile culture of the American experience, this collection of stories includes works by Raymond Carver, Jayne Anne Phillips, Ellen Gilchrist, Poe, Hawthorne, Hemingway, Kate Chopin, and other distinguished authors