A list of short stories that have become cultural artifacts, from Washington Irving to Kristen Roupenian. Find out which stories are frequently anthologized, adapted, referenced, and discussed in popular culture.
Top Short Stories. Some of the most famous and widely read classic short stories of all time are Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery (1948), Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart (1843), and ...
A collection of short stories by John Steinbeck, Stephen Vincent Benet, and Sinclair Lewis, published in 1976 by Dell. Some of the pages are cut off due to tight margin and the book is print disabled.
20 Great American Short Stories. Story Collections. Short Story Collections. Favorite Stories. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge The Gift of the Magi The Last Leaf The Little Match Girl The Sniper The Monkey's Paw A Dark Brown Dog The Coup de Grace The Necklace Regret The Storm The Story of an Hour
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There a few great short stories here, but most of them are mediocre at best. ... Of course, neither volume considers all American short stories from the century, just the 20 per year anthologized in BASS. This leaves out many great stories, and generally restricts them to realistic literary fiction, but there are still great picks here and it ...
20 Great American Short Stories. Edgar Allan Poe, Fitz-James O'Brien, Mark Twain ... This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science ...
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This document provides a list and brief summaries of 20 classic American short stories. Some of the most well-known stories included are The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry, The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen, To Build a Fire by Jack London, and The Lady or the Tiger by Frank Stockton. The stories cover a wide range of genres and topics and represent important works and authors in ...
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."
Stories from Scholastic Magazine--T.p. ... Twenty grand : great American short stories by Taggard, Ernestine. Publication date 1976 Publisher Toronto ; New York : Bantam Collection ... abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL22898555M Openlibrary_edition ...
The early years of American short stories were marked by the pioneering efforts of Edward O’Brien, a visionary editor who sought to elevate the short story form to new literary heights. O’Brien’s editorial vision was uncompromising; he focused on maintaining high literary standards and promoting new writers, ensuring the genre’s ...
100 years of the best American short stories. Publication date 2015 Topics Short stories, American, American fiction -- 20th century ... Language English Item Size 1.5G . xxi, 723 pages ; 24 cm Collects forty short stories published between 1915 and 2015, from writers that include Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, and Alice Munro that exemplify ...
The book is a centennial anniversary of The Best American Short Stories series which began in 1915. The series is considered one of the "best-known annual anthologies of short fiction" [2] and has anthologized more than 2,000 short stories, including works by some of the most famous writers in contemporary American literature, curated by well-known guest editors.
An anthology edited by Heidi Pitlor and prolific authors such as Min Jin Lee, Jane Smiley, Anthony Doerr, Raymond Carver, Amy Tan, Junot Diaz, T.C. Boyle, Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood and more, the BASS collects the year's best short stories by contemporary American writers. Listing 2397 stories.
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