Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket in good condition as well. Mylar cover included.
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, 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.
The collection includes 34 stories by: Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allen Poe, Herman Melville, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, Henry James, Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Charles W. Chestnutt, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Wharton, O. Henry, Stephen Crane, Jack London, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Read Alikes for Great American Short Stories: The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction edited by Richard Bausch and R.V. Cassill; The Oxford Book of American Short Stories edited by Joyce Carol Oates
Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket in good condition as well. Mylar cover included.
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, 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.
The collection includes 34 stories by: Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allen Poe, Herman Melville, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, Henry James, Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Charles W. Chestnutt, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Wharton, O. Henry, Stephen Crane, Jack London, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Read Alikes for Great American Short Stories: The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction edited by Richard Bausch and R.V. Cassill; The Oxford Book of American Short Stories edited by Joyce Carol Oates
ISBN 978-1-4351-6280-8
Compilation
2013
