Great Short Stories by Great American Writers, Edited by Thomas Fasano
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Great Short Stories by Great American Writers, Edited by Thomas Fasano
Featuring 30 of the greatest short stories from the most distinguished writers in the American short-story tradition, this new anthology begins with Washington Irving's tale "Rip Van Winkle" and ranges across more than one hundred years of storytelling, concluding with F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic, "Winter Dreams." Other selections include Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher," Melville's "Bartleby, The Scrivener," Harte's "The Luck of Roaring Camp," "To Build a Fire," by Jack London, "The Middle Years" by Henry James, plus stories by Mark Twain, Sarah Orne Jewett, Charles Chesnutt, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Willa Cather, Ambrose Bierce, Theodore Dreiser, and others. Perfect for classroom use, this outstanding collection of short stories will also prove popular with fiction readers everywhere.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle
William Austin: Peter Rugg, the Missing Man
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Rappaccini’s Daughter
Edgar Allan Poe: The Fall of the House of Usher
Harriet Beecher Stowe: The Ghost in the Mill
Herman Melville: Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street
Rebecca Harding Davis: Marcia
Mark Twain: The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
Bret Harte: The Luck of Roaring Camp
William Dean Howells: Editha
Ambrose Bierce: Chickamauga
Henry James: The Middle Years
Joel Chandler Harris: Free Joe and the Rest of the World
Sarah Orne Jewett: A White Heron
Kate Chopin: Desirée’s Baby
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman: The Revolt of “Motherâ€
Charles W. Chesnutt: The Wife of His Youth
Hamlin Garland: Up the Coolly
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper
Edith Wharton: A Journey
O. Henry: The Trimmed Lamp
Frank Norris: A Deal in Wheat
Theodore Dreiser: The Lost Phoebe
Stephen Crane: The Blue Hotel
Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Lynching of Jube Benson
Willa Cather: Paul’s Case
Jack London: To Build a Fire
Sherwood Anderson: I Want To Know Why
Ring Lardner: The Golden Honeymoon
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams
