An edition of Signet Classic Book of American Short Stories (1985)
The Signet Classic Book of American Short Stories
By Burton Raffel,Professor Burton Raffel,Professor Burton Raffel,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Edgar Allan Poe,Herman Melville,Ambrose Bierce,Kate Chopin,Edith Wharton,Mark Twain,Jack London,William Faulkner,F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publish Date
1985-02
Publisher
Signet Classic
Language
eng
Pages
557
Description:
Anthology contains: The specter bridegroom / Washington Irving -- [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The gold bug / Edgar Allan Poe -- [Bartleby the scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W) / Herman Melville -- Miss Asphyxia / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- The Iliad of Sandy Bar / Bret Harte -- Who was she? / Bayard Taylor -- Grit / Rose Terry Cooke -- [Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge) / Ambrose Bierce -- The return of a private / Hamlin Garland -- A New England nun / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- The real thing / Henry James -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The flight of Betsey Lane / Sarah O. Jewett -- La grande demoiselle / Grace Elizabeth King -- The war widow / Harold Frederic -- Madame Célestin's divorce / Kate Chopin -- The blue hotel / Stephen Crane -- A journey / Edith Wharton -- The man that corrupted Hadleyburg / Mark Twain -- All gold canyon / Jack London -- The rajah of Bungpore / F. Hopkinson Smith -- Nobody sick, nobody poor / Zona Gale -- One thousand dollars / O. Henry -- "Queer" / Sherwood Anderson -- Up in Michigan / Ernest Hemingway -- Great lady on a white horse / John Dos Passos -- The king of the cats / Stephen Vincent Benét -- Neighbour Rosicky / Willa Cather -- Turnabout / William Faulkner -- The evening's at seven / James Thurber -- The long way out / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Ever fall in love with a midget? / William Saroyan.
subjects: Short stories, american, Satanism, Fiction, short story, Puritans, catechism, Devil, Children's fiction, Boys, Young men, Copyists, classic literature, Psychology, Securities industry, history and criticism, History, Short Stories, Juvenile audience, civil war, hanging, American Civil War, Confederate States of America, Union, Fiction, general, Fiction, collections
People: Peyton Farquhar, Bartleby, Turkey, Nippers, Ginger Nut, John Jacob Astor, Cicero, Goodman Brown, Faith Brown, Goody Cloyse, Devil
Places: New England, Salem Village, Massachusetts, New York, Wall Street, United States, Alabama, Owl Creek Bridge