200 years of great American short stories / edited by Martha Foley.

Author: Foley, Martha, comp.

Imprint:Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1975.

Descriptionxii, 968 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:A pretty story / Francis Hopkinson (1774). - Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving (1820). - Peter Rugg, the missing man / William Austin (1824). - The grey champion / Nathaniel Hawthorne (1837). - The big bear of Arkansas / T.B. Thorpe (1841). - The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe (1846). - Bartleby the scrivener / Herman Melville (1853). - Tennessee's partner / Bret Harte (1869). - Captain Kidd's money / Harriet Beecher Stowe (1872). - Marjorie Daw / Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1873). - The lady or the tiger? / Frank Stockton (1882). - Over on the T'Other Mounting / Charles Egbert Craddock (1884). - The revolt of mother / Mary Wilkins Freeman (1890). - One of the missing / Ambrose Bierce (1891). - The return of a private / Hamlin Garland (1891). - The real thing / Henry James (1893). - The courting of Sister Wisby / Sarah Orne Jewett (1897). - The open boat / Stephen Crane (1897). - The man that corrupted Hadleyburg / Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1900). - The furnished room / O. Henry (1906). - To build a fire / Jack London (1908). - The strength of God and the teacher / Sherwood Anderson (1919). - The diamond as big as the Ritz / F. Scott Fitzgerald (1922). - Haircut / Ring Lardner (1926). - Double birthday / Willa Cather (1929). - Spring evening / James T. Farrell (1932). - Masses of men / Erskine Caldwell (1933). - The gilded six-bits / Zora Neale Hurston (1933). - Silent snow, secret snow / Conrad Aiken (1934). - An odor of verbena / William Faulkner (1934). - The daring young man on the flying trapeze / William Saroyan (1934). - The snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway (1936). - A tooth for Paul Revere / Stephen Vincent Benét (1937). - Noon wine / Katherine Anne Porter (1937). - The leader of the people / John Steinbeck (1937). - Lily Daw and the three ladies / Eudora Welty (1937). - Fire and cloud / Richard Wright (1938). - The patterns of love / William Maxwell (1943). - The ballad of the sad café / Carson McCullers (1943). - Cass Mastern's wedding ring / Robert Penn Warren (1943). - The wedding: Beacon Hill / Jean Stafford (1944). - Rain in the heart / Peter Taylor (1944). - Gunners' passage / Irwin Shaw (1944). - The lottery / Shirley Jackson (1949). - February 1999: Ylla / Ray Bradbury (1950) - The country husband / John Cheever (1954). - A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor (1955). - The Mexican girl / Jack Kerouac (1957). - The Pedersen kid / William H. Gass (1961). - Seven say you can hear corn grow / Kay Boyle (1966). - Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates 91966). - Tell me how long the train's been gone / James Baldwin (1968). - Son / John Updike (1973). - Yellow woman / Leslie Silko (1974).

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