20th Century American Short Stories

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 : Jean A. McConochie
Publisher : Heinle & Heinle Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780838448519
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 20th Century American Short Stories written by Jean A. McConochie and published by Heinle & Heinle Pub. This book was released on 1995-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces students to American literature through unabridged, unsimplified stories written by a variety of American authors. Includes pre-and post-reading support, discussion and writing activities to help promote both reading and writing.

Author : Blanche H. Gelfant
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231504950
Total Pages : 677 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story written by Blanche H. Gelfant and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-21 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esteemed critic Blanche Gelfant's brilliant companion gathers together lucid essays on major writers and themes by some of the best literary critics in the United States. Part 1 is comprised of articles on stories that share a particular theme, such as "Working Class Stories" or "Gay and Lesbian Stories." The heart of the book, however, lies in Part 2, which contains more than one hundred pieces on individual writers and their work, including Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Richard Ford, Raymond Carver, Eudora Welty, Andre Debus, Zora Neal Hurston, Anne Beattie, Bharati Mukherjee, J. D. Salinger, and Jamaica Kincaid, as well as engaging pieces on the promising new writers to come on the scene.

Author : John Cheever
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307743985
Total Pages : 1093 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stories of John Cheever written by John Cheever and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 1093 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A seminal collection from one of the true masters of the short story. Spanning the duration of Cheever’s long and distinguished career, these sixty-one stories chronicle and encapsulate the lives of what has been called “the greatest generation.” From the early wonder and disillusionment of city life in “The Enormous Radio” to the surprising discoveries and common mysteries of suburbia in “The Housebreaker of Shady Hill” and “The Swimmer,” these are tales that have helped define the form. Featuring a preface by the Pulizter Prize-winning author, The Stories of John Cheever brings together some of the finest short stories ever written. "Cheever’s crowning achievement is the ability to be simultaneously generous and cynical, to see that the absurd and the profound can reside in the same moment, and to acknowledge both at the detriment of neither." —The Guardian

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 : 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 : Anna E. Hiller
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486476243
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Spanish and Latin American Short Stories of the 20th Century/Grandes cuentos españoles y latinoamericanos del siglo XX: A Dual-Language Book written by Anna E. Hiller and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bilingual anthology offers geographic and cultural diversity with stories from Central America, South America, and Spain. Featured authors include Silvina Ocampo, Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Augusto Roa Bastos, and many others.

Author : Candace Ward
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486111083
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Short Stories by American Women written by Candace Ward and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choice collection of 13 stories includes "Life in the Iron Mills" by Rebecca Harding Davis, Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat," plus superb fiction by Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, many others.

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 : Clarence C. Strowbridge
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486499138
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Short Story Masterpieces written by Clarence C. Strowbridge and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An affordable compilation of more than a dozen of the best American short stories features tales by Hawthorne, Twain, James, Cheever, Wharton, and Cather. Contents include "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat," and "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty.