Great American Short Stories
by Wallace Stegner (Editor), Mary Stegner (Editor)
Laurel Great Short Stories
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From Washington Irving (1783-1859) to F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), the authors represented in this expansive American short story anthology invite you to see the world as they saw it. Irving's culture-defining tales of American life-"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle"-offer a turn of events that both surprises and chills the reader. In "Bartleby," Herman Melville introduces us to a lawyer whose easy way of life is upended by a mysterious new clerk who denies his authority, show more perplexes his visitors, and scandalizes his professional reputation. The title character of "Athénaïs," by Kate Chopin, is a new wife who rebels against the submissive role expected of her by her parents and husband. In Willa Cather's "The Sculptor's Funeral," a young man accompanies the body of his friend and mentor from New York to the renowned artist's hometown where no one ever understood him. And Fitzgerald's "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" reveals the treachery of a wealthy man protecting his fortune. Also among the thirty-four stories included in this collection are Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown," Mark Twain's "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Caleveras County," Bret Harte's "The Outcasts of Poker Flat," Henry James's "The Real Right Thing," Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-Paper," O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi," Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat," and Sherwood Anderson's "The Egg.". show lessTags
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I'm a big fan of short stories, but they can't be so short to consist of only 2 pages. They almost seemed like odd quotes because they were so short. Great for younger children or for educational purposes, but not so much for casual reading.
Organized chronologically by author, this volume includes stories from:
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Herman Melville
- Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)
- Ambrose Bierce
- Henry James
- Sarah Orne Jewett
- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
- Charles W. Chesnutt
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- William Sydney Porter (O. Henry)
- Edith Wharton
- Stephen Crane
- Jack London
- Sherwood Anderson
- Willa Cather
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Ernest Hemingway
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Herman Melville
- Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)
- Ambrose Bierce
- Henry James
- Sarah Orne Jewett
- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
- Charles W. Chesnutt
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- William Sydney Porter (O. Henry)
- Edith Wharton
- Stephen Crane
- Jack London
- Sherwood Anderson
- Willa Cather
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Ernest Hemingway
Classic stories. This is a fantastic collection of some of the best of the short story genre by American authors.
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In 1972, Wallace Earle Stegner won a Pulitzer Prize for Angle of Repose (1971), a novel about a wheelchair-bound man's recreation of his New England grandmother's experience in a late nineteenth-century frontier town. Stegner was born on February 18, 1909 in Lake Mills, Iowa. He was an American novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and show more historian; he has been called "The Dean of Western Writers". He also won the US National Book Award in 1977 for The Spectator Bird. Stegner grew up in Great Falls, Montana; Salt Lake City, Utah; and in the village of Eastend, Saskatchewan, which he wrote about in his autobiography Wolf Willow. Stegner taught at the University of Wisconsin and Harvard University. Eventually he settled at Stanford University, where he initiated the creative writing program. His students included Wendell Berry, and Sandra Day O'Connor. The Stegner Fellowship program at Stanford University is a two-year creative writing fellowship. The house Stegner lived in from age 7 to 12 in Eastend, Saskatchewan, Canada, was restored by the Eastend Arts Council in 1990 and established as a Residence for Artists; the Wallace Stegner Grant For The Arts offers a grant of $500 and free residency at the house for the month of October for published Canadian writers. Stegner died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on April 13, 1993, from a car accident on March 28, 1993. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1957
- First words
- 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 o... (show all)f the single effect upon which the modern short story has been built.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)There were a lot of good roads around Greenwich.
- Disambiguation notice
- The isbn associated with this edition is actually for the short story collection compiled by Corinne Demas.
Unsure which edition this might be or what stories are included in this collection.
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