The bedside book of famous American stories / edited by Angus Burrell and Bennett A. Cerf ...

Author: Burrell, Angus, ed.

Imprint:New York : Random House, [c1936]

Descriptionxvii, 1273 p. ; 22 cm.

Note:The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving. - Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving. - The great stone face / Nathaniel Hawthorne. - Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne. - The murders in the Rue Morgue / Edgar Allan Poe. - The pit and the pendulum / Edgar Allan Poe. - The purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe. - Billy Budd, foretopman / Herman Melville. - The man without a country / Edward Everett Hale. - The diamond lens / Fitz-James O'Brien. - The lady, or the tiger? / Frank R. Stockton. - The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain. - The man that corrupted Hadleyburg / Mark Twain. - Marjorie Daw / Thomas Bailey Aldrich. - Editha / William Dean Howells. - The outcasts of Poker Flat / Francis Bret Harte. - An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce. - The boarded window / Ambrose Bierce. - The real thing / Henry James. - The author of Beltraffio / Henry James. - Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, and the Tar Baby / Joel Chandler Harris. - The courting of Sister Wisby / Sarah Orne Jewett. - The boy who drew cats / Lafcadio Hearn. - The pearls of Loreto / Gertrude Atherton. - The return of a private / Hamlin Garland. - A New England nun / Mary E. Wilkins. - The mission of Jane / Edith Wharton. - The furnished room / O. Henry. - A blackjack bargainer / O. Henry. - A municipal report / O. Henry. - The bar sinister / Richard Harding Davis. - Effie Whittlesy / George Ade. - Little gentleman / Booth Tarkington. - A deal in wheat / Frank Norris. - The open boat / Stephen Crane. - The lost phoebe / Theodore Dreiser. - Big Dan Reilly / Harvey O'Higgins. - The good Anna / Gertrude Stein. - Paul's case / Willa Cather. - To build a fire / Jack London. - I'm a fool / Sherwood Anderson. - I want to know why / Sherwood Anderson. - The great pancakes record / Owen Johnson. - Porcelain cups / James Branch Cabell. - Vain oblations / Katharine Fullerton Gerould. - The murder on Jefferson Street / Dorothy Canfield. - Wild oranges / Joseph Hergesheimer. - A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell. - The afternoon of a faun / Edna Ferber. - Some like them cold / Ring Lardner. - The golden honeymoon / Ring Lardner. - The man who saw through heaven / Wilbur Daniel Steele. - Tact / Thomas Beer. - Silent snow, secret snow / Conrad Aiken. - Big blonde / Dorothy Parker. - The arrow / Christopher Morley. - A cycle of Manhattan / Thyra Samter Winslow. - The little girl from town / Ruth Suckow. - The rich boy / F. Scott Fitzgerald. - The body of an American / John Dos Passos. - A rose for Emily / William Faulkner. - The killers / Ernest Hemingway. - The gambler, the nun, and the radio / Ernest Hemingway. - A portrait of Bascom Hawke - Thomas wolfe. - Night club / Katherine Brush. - Kneel to the rising sun / Erskine Caldwell. - The daring young man on the flying trapeze / William Saroyan.

Bibliography Note:"Bibliographical notes" : p. 1243-1273.

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