| Description |
xiv, 768 pages ; 23 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- Peter Rugg -- Missing man / William Austin -- Wives of the dead / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids / Herman Melville -- Tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- Ghost in the mill / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Cannibalism in the cars / Samuel Clemens -- White heron / Sarah Orne Jewett -- Storm / Kate Chopin -- Sheriff's children / Charles Chesnutt -- Yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Middle years / Henry James -- In a far country / Jack London -- Old woman Magoun / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- Little regiment / Stephen Crane -- A journey / Edith Wharton -- Strength of God / Sherwood Anderson. |
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Death in the desert / Willa Cather -- Blood-burning moon / Jean Toomer -- A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway -- An alcoholic case / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Girl with a pimply face / William Carlos Williams -- He / Katherine Anne Porter -- That evening sun / William Faulkner -- Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston -- Red-headed baby / Langston Hughes -- Man who was almost a man / Richard Wright -- A distant episode / Paul Bowles -- A late encounter with the enemy / Flannery O'Connor -- Sonny's blues / James Baldwin -- Battle Royal / Ralph Ellison -- There will come soft rains / Ray Bradbury -- Rain in the heart / Peter Taylor -- Where is the voice coming from? / Eudora Welty. |
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Lecture / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- My son the murderer / Bernard Malamud -- Something to remember me by / Saul Bellow -- Death of Justina / John Cheever -- Texts / Ursula K. Le Guin -- School / Donald Barthelme / Persistence of desire / John Updike -- Alaska / Alice Adams -- Are these actual miles? / Raymond Carver -- Yellow Woman / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Shawl / Cynthia Ozick -- Heat / Joyce Carol Oates -- Hunters in the snow / Tobias Wolff -- Things they carried / Tim O'Brien -- Big Bertha stories / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Fever / John Edgar Wideman -- Management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee -- Two kinds / Amy Tan -- Fleur / Louise Erdrich -- Gravity / David Leavitt -- |
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House on Mango Street ; What Sally said ; Linoleum roses ; A house of my own / Sandra Cisneros -- Town Smokes / Pinckney Benedict. |
| Subject |
United States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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Short stories, American.
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| Indexed Term |
English fiction Short stories |
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United States |
| Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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| Added Author |
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
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| Added Title |
American short stories. |
| ISBN |
0195070658 (acid-free paper) : $25.00 |
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