The American Short Story
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Author
Publication
2000 - National Textbook Company, Lincolnwood, IL
Language
English
Word Count
75,000 words, Guess
Page Count
300 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveamericanshortsto00mcgr
- ISBN-100658000403
- ISBN-139780658000409
- LibraryThing8578958
- Goodreads59786816
and 4 more
- Library of Congress Control Number99023479
- OCLC Control Number41445660
- OCLC Control Number43581226
- Open LibraryOL7626230M
Classifications
- DDC[Fic]
- LCCPZ5.C5615 1999
Description
Contains: The devil and Tom Walker, 1824 / Washington Irving [Rappaccini's daughter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455378W), 1844 / Nathaniel Hawthorne Hop-frog, 1849 / Edgar Allan Poe The outcasts of Poker Flat, 1869 / Bret Harte The courting of Sister Wisby, 1887 / Sarah Orne Jewett The revolt of "Mother", 1890 / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman A horseman in the sky, 1891 / Ambrose Bierce The 1,000,000 [pound] banknote, 1893 / Mark Twain [A pair of silk stockings](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078930W), 1897 / Kate Chopin The bride comes to Yellow Sky, 1898 / Stephen Crane A journey, 1899 / Edith Wharton The sculptor's funeral, 1905 / Willa Cather The ransom of Red Chief, 1907 / O. Henry The egg, 1920 / Sherwood Anderson Winter dreams, 1922 / F. Scott Fitzgerald Some like them cold, 1924 / Ring Lardner The greatest man in the world, 1931 / James Thurber A day's wait, 1933 / Ernest Hemingway The man who saw the flood, 1937 / Richard Wright Flight, 1938 / John Steinbeck A worn path, 1940 / Eudora Welty Holiday, 1960- / Katherine Anne Porter
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