Great Short Stories by Great American Writers (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780982129876)

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.

Author: Thomas Fasano
ISBN-10: 0982129874
ISBN-13: 9780982129876
Publisher: Coyote Canyon Press
Language: English
Published: 06/06/2011
Pages: 412
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.92d