100 years of the best American short stories
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Contributions
- Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968 - Contributor
- Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 - Contributor
- Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 - Contributor
- Lardner, Ring, 1885-1933 - Contributor
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 - Contributor
and 35 more
- Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980 - Contributor
- Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 - Contributor
- Hale, Nancy, 1908-1988 - Contributor
- Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001 - Contributor
- Cheever, John - Contributor
- Olsen, Tillie - Contributor
- Baldwin, James, 1924-1987 - Contributor
- Roth, Philip - Contributor
- O'Connor, Flannery - Contributor
- Updike, John - Contributor
- Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988 - Contributor
- Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- - Contributor
- Barthelme, Donald - Contributor
- Elkin, Stanley, 1930-1995 - Contributor
- Paley, Grace - Contributor
- Baxter, Charles, 1947- - Contributor
- Simpson, Mona - Contributor
- Ford, Richard, 1944- - Contributor
- Stone, Robert, 1937-2015 - Contributor
- Louie, David Wong, 1954-2018 - Contributor
- Munro, Alice, 1931- - Contributor
- Gaitskill, Mary, 1954- - Contributor
- Kincaid, Jamaica - Contributor
- Sharma, Akhil, 1971- - Contributor
- Díaz, Junot, 1968- - Contributor
- Lahiri, Jhumpa - Contributor
- Packer, ZZ - Contributor
- Alexie, Sherman, 1966- - Contributor
- Jones, Edward P. - Contributor
- Percy, Benjamin - Contributor
- Wolff, Tobias, 1945- - Contributor
- Englander, Nathan - Contributor
- Otsuka, Julie, 1962- - Contributor
- Saunders, George, 1958- - Contributor
- Groff, Lauren - Contributor
Publication
2015 - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
180,750 words, Guess
Page Count
723 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archive100yearsofbestam0000unse
- ISBN-139780547485850
- ISBN-100547485859
- Goodreads60167877
- OCLC Control Number898052979
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number1028512879
- Better World Books9780547485850
- Open LibraryOL27190517M
Classifications
- DDC813/.0108
- LCCPS648.S5 O54 2014
- LCCPS648.S5 A15 2015
and 1 more
- LCCPS648.S5A154 2015
Alternate Titles
- One hundred years of the best American short stories
Description
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.
Subjects
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