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Thousands of great short stories can be found in American Literature's Short Story Library, including many of the greatest short stories ever written. Our collection continues to expand and we also feature a Short Story of the Day.

xxiv, 775 pages ; 24 cm "The Best American Short Stories of the Century brings together the best of the best - fifty-five extraordinary stories that represent a century's worth of unsurpassed accomplishments in this quintessentially American literary genre. Here are the stories that have endured the test of time: masterworks by such writers as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Willa Cather ...

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

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A collection of seventeen short stories by well-known American authors from the early nineteenth century through the middle of the twentieth century

50 great American short stories / ed Milton Crane (1983) Adventure of the German student / Washington Irving -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne* -- Ms. found in a bottle / Edgar Allan Poe -- Fiddler -- Herman Melville -- What was it?

Public domain short stories pdf. Librivox audio books short stories. Also vintage story collections in several languages. Check “Media Type” in left column of Internet Archive pages for audio, movie and image files.

Witness the ever-changing history and identity of America in this collection of 40 stories collected from the first 100 years of this bestselling series. For the centennial celebration of this annual series, The Best American Short Stories, master of the form Lorrie Moore selects forty stories from the more than two thousand that were published in previous editions. Series editor Heidi Pitlor ...

"American Short Stories" by Charles Sears Baldwin is a collection of selected stories and critical essays on the short story genre, written in the early 20th century. The compilation aims to showcase the evolution of the American short story, exploring its development from meandering anecdotes to a distinct and cohesive literary form.

Well, who knows, but for our purposes, “iconic” means that the story has somehow wormed its way into the general cultural consciousness—a list of the best short stories in the English language would look quite different than the one below. (Also NB that in this case we’re necessarily talking about the American cultural consciousness, weird and wiggly as it is.) When something is iconic ...

This handbook aims to provide students, teachers, and other readers with a concise survey of the American short story from its early beginnings to the first decade of the 21st century. At the same time, it critically reflects the many intricacies and problems involved in the writing of literary history and canon formation. In contrast to the many introductions to the American short story that ...

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The document summarizes The Best American Short Stories anthology, which publishes an annual collection of short stories by prominent American and Canadian writers. Each volume's stories are selected by both a series editor and guest editor, with the series editor first recommending around 100 candidates and the guest editor then choosing 25 for publication. The document then lists the guest ...

It also mentions several classic American short stories and authors who helped establish the short story genre in American literature, such as Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Mark Twain. The document provides resources for reading short stories from these famous American writers.

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Publication date 1985 Topics Short stories, American, United States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction Publisher [S.l.] : Longmeadow Press Collection internetarchivebooks; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English Item Size 1.2G

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. [3][4][5] In particular, the Willa Cather Review wrote that The Best American Short Stories series "became a repository of values" for creative writing programs ...

Can one be considered an American if one has never been in love? For readers of Jhumpa Lahiri’s debut short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, the answer to this question is neither obvious...

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