American Short Stories [Pearson Longman]

by Eugene Current-García (Editor)

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A collection of stories by a selection of America's foremost and less well-known writers, this edition of the volume includes 26 new stories and 12 new authors and an expanded section on literature of the period 1890-1920. A Suggestions for Writing and Discussion feature is provided in each section to encourage further thought and discussion within a classroom context.

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Eugene Current-García
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Hitchcock, Bert (Editor)
Anderson, Sherwood (Contributor)
Bambara, Toni Cade (Contributor)
Barthelme, Donald (Contributor)
Bierce, Ambrose (Contributor)
Capote, Truman (Contributor)
Carver, Raymond (Contributor)
Cather, Willa (Contributor)
Cheever, John (Contributor)
Chesnutt, Charles W. (Contributor)
Chopin, Kate (Contributor)
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Contributor)
Colter, Cyrus (Contributor)
Crane, Stephen (Contributor)
Erdrich, Louise (Contributor)
Faulkner, William (Contributor)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Contributor)
Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins (Contributor)
Gaines, Ernest J. (Contributor)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (Contributor)
Hemingway, Ernest (Contributor)
Hooper, Johnson Jones (Contributor)
Hughes, Langston (Contributor)
Hurston, Zora Neale (Contributor)
Irving, Washington (Contributor)
James, Henry (Contributor)
Jewett, Sarah Orne (Contributor)
Kaplan, David Michael (Contributor)
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Malamud, Bernard (Contributor)
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Martone, Michael (Contributor)
Mason, Bobbie Ann (Contributor)
Melville, Herman (Contributor)
O'Brien, Tim (Contributor)
O'Connor, Flannery (Contributor)
Oates, Joyce Carol (Contributor)
Paley, Grace (Contributor)
Phillips, Jayne Anne (Contributor)
Poe, Edgar Allan (Contributor)
Porter, Katherine Anne (Contributor)
Porter, William Sydney (Contributor)
Simms, William Gilmore (Contributor)
Spencer, Elizabeth (Contributor)
Steinbeck, John (Contributor)
Taylor, Peter (Contributor)
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Thurber, James (Contributor)
Toomer, Jean (Contributor)
Updike, John (Contributor)
Walker, Alice (Contributor)
Welty, Eudora (Contributor)
Wharton, Edith (Contributor)
Williams, Joy (Contributor)
Wolff, Tobias (Contributor)
Wright, Richard (Contributor)

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Contains

The Sky Is Gray by Ernest J. Gaines
The Gilded Six-Bits [short story] by Zora Neale Hurston
Rip van Winkle [short story] by Washington Irving
Young Goodman Brown [short story] by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Cask of Amontillado [short story] by Edgar Allan Poe
Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County [short story] by Mark Twain
One Officer, One Man [short story] by Ambrose Bierce
The Courting of Sister Wisby by Sarah Orne Jewett
The Storm by Kate Chopin
The Passing of Grandison [short story] by Charles W. Chesnutt
The Blue Hotel by Stephen Crane
The Other Two by Edith Wharton
Paul's Case {story} by Willa Cather
Death in the Woods and Other Stories by Sherwood Anderson
Death in the Woods [short story] by Sherwood Anderson (indirect)
The Grave by Katherine Anne Porter
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty [short story] by James Thurber
Blood-Burning Moon by Jean Toomer
Babylon Revisited [short story] by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Barn Burning {story} by William Faulkner
Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway
The Chrysanthemums {short story} by John Steinbeck
Thank you, m'am {short story} by Langston Hughes
The Swimmer by John Cheever
The Magic Barrel: Stories by Bernard Malamud
The Magic Barrel [short story] by Bernard Malamud (indirect)
Children on Their Birthdays by Truman Capote
Good Country People by Flannery O'Connor
A & P: Lust in the Aisles by John Updike
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? {short story} by Joyce Carol Oates
Errand {story} by Raymond Carver
Shiloh by Bobbie Ann Mason
Kindred Spirits by Alice Walker
Hunters in the Snow by Tobias Wolff
The Things They Carried {short story}
The Flower {short story} by Louise Erdrich

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American Short Stories [Pearson Longman]
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There are many collections with the name "American Short Stories". This work is the collection edited by Eugene Current-Garcia. Please do not combine it with the collection of the same name published by the Folio Society, a... (show all)s they are completely different collections. Please do not combine this work with any other short story collection unless you can confirm that the short stories selected for each are the same.

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Fiction and Literature
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813.0108 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English By type Short fiction
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PS648 .S5 .A47 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Collections of American literature Prose (General)
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