An edition of Great American Short Stories (1957)
Great American Short Stories
By Wallace Stegner,Mary Stegner,Washington Irving,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Edgar Allan Poe,Herman Melville,Mark Twain,Bret Harte,Ambrose Bierce,Henry James,Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman,Hamlin Garland,O. Henry,Edith Wharton,Stephen Crane,Sherwood Anderson,Wilbur Daniel Steele,Conrad Aiken,Katherine Anne Porter,James Thurber,William March,William Faulkner,John Steinbeck,Paul Horgan,John O'Hara,Walter Van Tilburg Clark,Eudora Welty,Hortense Calisher,Mary (editor) Stegner
Publish Date
1984-08
Publisher
Laurel
Language
eng
Pages
511
Description:
Contains: Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W/Young_Goodman_Brown) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- [Fall of the house of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- [Bartleby the scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W/Bartleby_the_Scrivener) / Herman Melville -- Baker's bluejay yarn / Mark Twain -- Tennessee's partner / Bret Harte -- The real thing / Henry James -- The boarded window / Ambrose Bierce -- A village singer / Mary Wilkins Freeman -- Mrs.Ripley's trip / Hamlin Garland -- A muncipial report / O. Henry -- Roman fever / Edith Wharton -- The open boat / Stephen Crane -- Unlighted lamps / Sherwood Anderson -- The man who saw through heaven / Wilbur Daniel Steele -- Silent snow, secret snow / Conrad Aiken -- He / Katherine Anne Porter -- The catbird seat / James Thurber -- The little wife / William March -- [Wash](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16245840W/Wash) / William Faulkner -- The snake / John Steinbeck -- To the mountains / Paul Horgan -- Over the river and through the wood / John O'Hara -- The wind and the snow of winter / Walter Van Tilburg Clark -- Powerhouse / Eudora Welty -- In greenwich there are many gravelled walks / Hortense Calisher.
subjects: American fiction, short stories, American Horror tales, burial vaults, catalepsy, dragons, Fiction, gothic fiction, hermitages, heroic romances, horror, horror tales, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, tarns, Satanism, short story, Puritans, catechism, Devil, Children's fiction, Boys, Young men, Copyists, classic literature, Psychology, Securities industry, history and criticism, Social life and customs, United States in fiction, American Short stories, Short stories, american
People: Colonel Sutpen, Milly, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Goodman Brown, Faith Brown, Goody Cloyse, Devil, Bartleby, Turkey, Nippers, Ginger Nut, John Jacob Astor, Cicero
Places: United States, New York, Wall Street, New England, Salem Village, Massachusetts
Times: 1600s