100 Great American Short Stories (eBook)

John Grafton (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
1040 Seiten
Dover Publications (Verlag)
978-0-486-84759-7 (ISBN)

Infos

This celebration of America's literary legacy, a companion volume to Dover's 100 Great Short Stories, offers students and other readers a superb selection of short fiction by master storytellers. Contributors include Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, O. Henry, Willa Cather, Washington Irving, Henry James, Edgar Allan Poe, Louisa May Alcott, and many others. The stories are arranged alphabetically by author. Selections from American literature of the nineteenth century include Herman Melville's "The Fiddler," Bret Harte's "The Outcasts of Poker Flat," "Adventure of the German Student" by Washington Irving, Ambrose Bierce's "The Eyes of the Panther," "The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane, and Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Ambitious Guest." More recent stories include Djuna Barnes' "A Night Among the Horses," Ernest Hemingway's "Up in Michigan," Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat," "To Build a Fire" by Jack London, Theodore Dreiser's "The Lost Phoebe," and "Jesus Christ in Texas" by W. E. B. Du Bois.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.7.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Dover Thrift Editions
• Reihe/Serie: Dover Thrift Editions: Short Stories
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: American Fiction • American Literature • American Short Stories • Edgar Allan Poe • Edith Wharton. • Jack London • kate chopin • Literature • O. Henry • Sherwood Anderson • short fiction • Short Stories • Stephen Crane • Willa Cather
• ISBN-10: 0-486-84759-4 / 0486847594
• ISBN-13: 978-0-486-84759-7 / 9780486847597