Great American Short Stories by Wallace…

Great American Short Stories (1957)

by Wallace Stegner, Mary Stegner (Editor)

Series: Laurel Great Short Stories

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Classic stories. This is a fantastic collection of some of the best of the short story genre by American authors. (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Wallace Stegner	—	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Stegner, Mary	Editor	main author	all editions	confirmed

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Laurel Great Short Stories

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1957

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Introduction: A Century and a quarter ao, on January 14, 1832, Edgar Allan Poe published in the Philadelphia Saturday Courier the story "Metzengerstein," in which he utilized for the first tie the techniques of the single effect upon which the modern short story has been built.

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The isbn associated with this edition is actually for the short story collection compiled by Corinne Demas.

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The first short story writers of the last hundred years are represented in an American anthology. Author: Wallace Stegner Mary StegnerFormat: 512 pages, Paperback Publisher: Dell (October 1, 1985) ISBN: 978-0440330608

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