Great American Short Stories

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GREAT AMERICAN SHORT STORIES
from Hawthorne to Hemingway
Edited with an Introduction by Corinne Demas
Uniquely capable of capturing a moment in time, the short story occupies a cherished place in the history of American literature. During the last 200 years, some of Americas greatest writers have produced exemplars of this art form, many of which are included in this volume.
Beginning with well-known stories by Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe, this diverse and colorful collection includes tales by Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Sherwood Anderson, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Will a Cather, Stephen Crane, and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. From Sarah Orne Jewett's portraits of rural Maine to F. Scott Fitzgerald's brilliant tales from the Jazz Age, these stories span the breadth of the American experience. In addition to acknowledged masters of the short story form, such as O. Henry, Jack-London, and Ernest Hemingway, this volume features stories by Charles W. Chesnutt, the first important... Tovább

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GREAT AMERICAN SHORT STORIES
from Hawthorne to Hemingway
Edited with an Introduction by Corinne Demas
Uniquely capable of capturing a moment in time, the short story occupies a cherished place in the history of American literature. During the last 200 years, some of Americas greatest writers have produced exemplars of this art form, many of which are included in this volume.
Beginning with well-known stories by Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe, this diverse and colorful collection includes tales by Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Sherwood Anderson, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Will a Cather, Stephen Crane, and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. From Sarah Orne Jewett's portraits of rural Maine to F. Scott Fitzgerald's brilliant tales from the Jazz Age, these stories span the breadth of the American experience. In addition to acknowledged masters of the short story form, such as O. Henry, Jack-London, and Ernest Hemingway, this volume features stories by Charles W. Chesnutt, the first important African-American novelist, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a leading theorist of the early women's movement.
Corinne Demas is Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College and a fiction editor of the Massachusetts Review. She has a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, and is the author of several collections of short stories, novels, books for children, and a memoir.
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