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Bantam
Language
English
Pages
502

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Cover of: Fifty Great American Stories
Fifty Great American Stories
August 1, 1984, Bantam Classics
Mass Market Paperback in English
Cover of: 50 great American short stories
50 great American short stories
1983, Bantam
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Table of Contents

Adventure of the German student / Washington Irving
Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ms. found in a bottle / Edgar Allan Poe
Fiddler
Herman Melville
What was it? / Fitz-James O'Brien
Luck / Mark Twain
Outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte
Diamond thing / Ambrose Bierce
Two faces / Henry James
A New England nun / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Courting of Sister Wisby / Sarah Orne Jewett
The dilettante / Edith Wharton
Masters of arts / O. Henry
Effie Whittlesy / George Ade
Mr. Dooley on the popularity of firemen / Finley Peter Dunne
Bride comes to Yellow Sky / Stephen Crane
(cont.) A dead issue / Charles M. Flandrau
The lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser
Father is firm with his ailments / Clarence Day
Death in the woods / Sherwood Anderson
To build a fire / Jack London
Use of force / William Carlos Williams
Old folks' Christmas / Ring W. Lardner
Silent snow, secret snow / Conrad Aiken
By the waters of Babylon / Stephen Vincent Benet
Soldiers of the republic / Dorothy Parker
Mr. Preble gets rid of his wife / James Thurber
Cluney McFarrar's hardtack / John McNulty
Darkness of the night / Robert M. Coates
The old people / William Faulkner
Grapes for Monsieur Cape / Ludwig Bemelmans
A man of the world / Ernest Hemingway
The hour of letdown / W.E.B. White
(cont.) The resting place / Oliver La Farge
The touch of nutmeg makes it / John Collier
The harness / John Steinbeck
Friend of the family / Kay Boyle
The rumor / Erskine Caldwell
There was a young lady of Perth / William Saroyan
Downfall of fascism in Black Ankle County / Joseph Mitchell
The French scarecrow / William Maxwell
Blue-winged teal / Wallace Stegner
Archimandrite's niece / James Reid Parker
A mother's tale / James Agee
National pastime / John Cheever
Girls in their summer dresses / Irwin Shaw
Death of Shorty / Richard P. Russell
Grandma and the Hindu monk / Seymour Freedgood
Madame Zilensky and the king of Finland / Carson McCullers
Lucid eye in Silver Town / John Updike.

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Other Titles
Fifty great American short stories.

Classifications

Library of Congress
CPB Box no. 821 vol. 10

The Physical Object

Pagination
502 p. ;
Number of pages
502

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24509081M
ISBN 10
0553272942
LCCN
97821165
OCLC/WorldCat
23185192

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