An edition of Great American Short Stories [34 stories] (1977)
Great American Short Stories
By Reader's Digest Association,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Mark Twain,Jack London,Susan Glaspell,Jesse Stuart,John O'Hara,O. Henry,Ring Lardner,Ernest Hemingway,Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman,John Steinbeck,Edgar Allan Poe,Richard Wright,William Faulkner,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Walter Van Tilburg Clark,Eudora Welty,Ray Bradbury,Damon Runyon,Marc Connelly,Edith Wharton,Bret Harte,Shirley Ann Grau,Heywood Broun,Henry James,Shirley Jackson,Stephen Crane,John Updike,Pearl S. Buck,Stephen Vincent Benét,Kay Boyle,Herman Melville,John Cheever,Ambrose Bierce,Readers Digest Editors,Richard Connell
Publish Date
1977
Publisher
Reader's Digest Association
Language
eng
Pages
640
Description:
Contains: Winter Dreams What Stumped the Bluejays To Build a Fire A Jury of Her Peers The Storm The Pioneer Hep-Cat The Furnished Room I Can’t Breathe The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber A New England Nun The Chrysanthemums [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) The Man Who Saw the Flood [Barn Burning](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20080279W/Barn_Burning) The Yellow Wall Paper Hook The Key The Shore Line at Sunset The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown Coroner’s Inquest Roman Fever The Outcasts of Poker Flat The Last Gas Station The Fifty-First Dragon Sir Edmund Orme The Daemon Lover The Blue Hotel You’ll Never Know, Eear, How Much I Love You The Beauty The Devil and Daniel Webster Winter Night [Bartleby the Scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W/Bartleby_the_Scrivener) Christmas is a Sad Season for the Poor The Boarded Window Jug of silver / Truman Capote -- Night club / Katharine Brush -- The lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser -- [The most dangerous game](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5278311W) / Richard Connell -- The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud -- If Grant had been drinking at Appomattox / James Thurber -- The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving -- The music of Erich Zann / H.P. Lovecraft -- Enoch and the gorilla / Flannery O'Connor -- The untold lie / Sherwood Anderson -- Horse thief / Erskine Caldwell -- The haunted boy / Carson McCullers -- The valiant woman / J.F. Powers -- The minister's wife / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The rockpile / James Baldwin -- The enchanted bluff / Willa Cather -- O how she laughed / Conrad Aiken.
subjects: Fiction, Hunting, Islands, survival of the fittest, animal trapping, trapping pits, knouts, hunting dogs, Cossacks, deaf-mutes, snow leopards, jaguars, Juvenile fiction, Hunting stories, Juvenile works, Human hunting, Big game sport, Travel fiction, American Horror tales, American literature, Children's fiction, Classic Literature, Crime, Crime fiction, Detective and mystery stories, first-person narrative, Gothic fiction, Homicide, Horror, Horror fiction, Horror stories, Horror tales, Hyperesthesia, Murder, short stories, Social life and customs, American Short stories, class conflict, Young men, Copyists, Psychology, Securities industry, Manners and customs
People: Sanger Rainsford, General Zaroff, Whitney, Ivan, The Great White Czar, Sartoris Snopes, Abner Snopes, Lennie Snopes, Lizzie, Major de Spain, Mr. Harris, Bartleby, Turkey, Nippers, Ginger Nut, John Jacob Astor, Cicero
Places: Justice of the Peace Court, New York, Wall Street, Caribbean, Amazon rainforest, Ship-Trap Island, Tibet
Times: 19th century, 20th century