Classic American Short Stories [Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classics]
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Five great American short story writers, dating from the turn of the 19th/20th centuries are represented here. Different in atmosphere and writing style, they nevertheless caught the mood and concerns of the day in a way that was distinctly American. Bierce's "An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge" leaves echoes in the imagination; the stories by Crane and London recall the themes of the Civil War and the Klondike for which they are well known. Twain's humour is to the fore in "The Notorious show more Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and O. Henry's sharp observation makes his neat tales a joy to listen to.Music: Souza, Balakirev, Dvorak and others
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It's a very nice book physically, and the story selection includes almost all of the 'frequently anthologized' public domain american stories in one place, so it's convenient in that way. The only missing stories I can think of off the top of my head are Benet's "Devil and Daniel Webster" and Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery", plus the omission of anything at all from Ernest Hemmingway or Ray Bradbury. No Hemmingway loses it a star. Both "The Killers" and "Hills like White Elephants" should really be in here to make it complete. Weirdly the Henry James selection does not include "The Turn of the Screw", but since that story is, well, really insanely boring and it's baffling how frequently it gets included in anthologies in the first show more place, no points lost.
Because Barnes & Noble for some stupid reason insists on not including a table of contents for their anthologies on their website, here's the contents:
WASHINGTON IRVING
Rip Van Winkle
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Young Goodman Brown
The Minister's Black Veil
The May-Pole of Merry Mount
EDGAR ALLAN POE
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Masque of the Red Death
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Purloined Letter
HERMAN MELVILLE
Bartleby the Scrivener
EDWARD EVERETT HALE
The Man Without a Country
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
My Contraband (AKA The Brothers)
FRANK R. STOCKTON
The Lady, or the Tiger?
MARK TWAIN
The Celebrated Jumping-Frog of Calaveras County
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
BRET HARTE
The Luck of Roaring Camp
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
AMBROSE BIERCE
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
The Middle Toe of the Right Foot
HENRY JAMES
The Aspern Papers
The Beast in the Jungle
GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE
'Sieur George
SARAH ORNE JEWETT
A White Heron
The Failure of David Berry
KATE CHOPIN
Desiree's Baby
Athenaise
MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN
The Revolt of "Mother"
A New England Nun
CHARLES W. CHESNUTT
The Wife of His Youth
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN
The Yellow Wall-Paper
HAMLIN GARLAND
Up the Cooly
EDITH WHARTON
The Other Two
Autre Temps
O. HENRY
The Gift of the Magic
A Retrieved Reformation
The Ransom of Red Chief
STEPHEN CRANE
The Open Boat
The Blue Hotel
The Bridge Comes to Yellow Sky
JACK LONDON
To Build a Fire
WILLA CATHER
Paul's Case
The Sculptor's Funeral
RING LARDNER
Alibi Ike
SHERWOOD ANDERSON
Sophistication
The Egg
H.P. LOVECRAFT
The Outsider
The Colour Out of Space
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
Winter Dreams show less
Because Barnes & Noble for some stupid reason insists on not including a table of contents for their anthologies on their website, here's the contents:
WASHINGTON IRVING
Rip Van Winkle
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Young Goodman Brown
The Minister's Black Veil
The May-Pole of Merry Mount
EDGAR ALLAN POE
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Masque of the Red Death
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Purloined Letter
HERMAN MELVILLE
Bartleby the Scrivener
EDWARD EVERETT HALE
The Man Without a Country
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
My Contraband (AKA The Brothers)
FRANK R. STOCKTON
The Lady, or the Tiger?
MARK TWAIN
The Celebrated Jumping-Frog of Calaveras County
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
BRET HARTE
The Luck of Roaring Camp
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
AMBROSE BIERCE
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
The Middle Toe of the Right Foot
HENRY JAMES
The Aspern Papers
The Beast in the Jungle
GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE
'Sieur George
SARAH ORNE JEWETT
A White Heron
The Failure of David Berry
KATE CHOPIN
Desiree's Baby
Athenaise
MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN
The Revolt of "Mother"
A New England Nun
CHARLES W. CHESNUTT
The Wife of His Youth
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN
The Yellow Wall-Paper
HAMLIN GARLAND
Up the Cooly
EDITH WHARTON
The Other Two
Autre Temps
O. HENRY
The Gift of the Magic
A Retrieved Reformation
The Ransom of Red Chief
STEPHEN CRANE
The Open Boat
The Blue Hotel
The Bridge Comes to Yellow Sky
JACK LONDON
To Build a Fire
WILLA CATHER
Paul's Case
The Sculptor's Funeral
RING LARDNER
Alibi Ike
SHERWOOD ANDERSON
Sophistication
The Egg
H.P. LOVECRAFT
The Outsider
The Colour Out of Space
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
Winter Dreams show less
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- Classic American Short Stories [Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classics]
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- Contents:
- Introduction
- WASHINGTON IRVING
- Rip van Winkle
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
- Young Goodman Brown
- The Minister's Black Veil
- The ... (show all)May-Pole of Merry Mount
- EDGAR ALLAN POE
- The Fall of the House of Usher
- The Masque of the Red Death
- The Tell-Tale Heart
- The Purloined Letter
- HERMAN MELVILLE
- Bartleby the Scrivener
- EDWARD EVERETT HALE
- The Man Without a Country
- LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
- My Contraband
- FRANK R. STOCKTON
- The Lady, or the Tiger?
- MARK TWAIN
- The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
- The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
- BRET HARTE
- The Luck of Roaring Camp
- The Outcasts of Poker Flat
- AMBROSE BIERCE
- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
- The Middle Toe of the Right Foot
- HENRY JAMES
- The Aspern Papers
- The Beast in the Jungle
- GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE
- 'Sieur George
- SARAH ORNE JEWETT
- A White Heron
- The Failure of David Berry
- KATE CHOPIN
- Désirée's Baby
- Athénaïse
- MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN
- The Revolt of "Mother"
- A New England Nun
- CHARLES W. CHESNUTT
- The Wife of His Youth
- CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN
- The Yellow Wall-Paper
- HAMLIN GARLAND
- Up the Coolly
- EDITH WHARTON
- The Other Two
- Autre Temps
- O. HENRY
- The Gift of the Magi
- A Retrieved Reformation
- The Ransom of Red Chief
- STEPHEN CRANE
- The Open Boat
- The Blue Hotel
- The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
- JACK LONDON
- To Build a Fire
- WILLA CATHER
- Paul's Case
- The Sculptor's Funeral
- RING LARDNER
- Alibi Ike
- SHERWOOD ANDERSON
- Sophistication
- The Egg
- H.P. LOVECRAFT
- The Outsider
- The Colour out of Space
- F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
- Bernice Bobs Her Hair
- The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
- Winter Dreams
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