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A treasury of American folklore: our customs, beliefs, and traditions
1994, Barnes & Noble Books
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0880295120 9780880295123
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Table of Contents
The
legend of Sleepy Hollow -- Washington Irving
Rappaccini's daughter -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ligeia -- Edgar Allan Poe
Bartleby the Scrivener -- Herman Melville -- The
£1,000,000 bank-note -- Mark Twain -- The
gentleman of La Porte -- Bret Harte -- A
horseman in the sky -- Ambrose Pierce -- The
real thing -- Henry James -- The
Hilton's holiday -- Sarah Orne Jewett -- A
shameful affair -- Kate Chopin -- The
world and the door -- O. Henry
After Holbein -- Edith Wharton -- The
bride comes to the yellow sky -- Stephen Crane -- The
lost Phoebe -- Theodore Dreiser
Neighbour Rosicky -- Willa Cather -- The
egg -- Sherwood Anderson -- The
god of his fathers -- Jack London
Life isn't a short story -- Conrad Aiken -- The
grave -- Katherine Anne Porter
You were perfectly fine -- Dorothy Parker -- The
secret life of Walter Mitty -- James Thurber -- The
baby party -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
That evening sun -- William Faulkner -- The
light of the world -- Ernest Hemingway
Nothing ever breaks except the heart -- Kay Boyle
One for the road -- John O' Hara -- A
walk with Raschid -- Josephine Jacobsen -- The
daring young man on the flying trapeze -- William Saroyan -- A
worn path -- Eudora Welty -- The
night club in the woods -- Hortense Calisher
Torch song -- John Cheever -- The
snowfall -- Jean Garrigue
In dreams begin responsibilities -- Delmore Schwartz
King of the bingo game -- Ralph Ellison
Black is my favorite color -- Bernard Malamud -- A
silver dish -- Saul Bellow -- The
jockey -- Carson McCullers -- The
valiant woman -- J.F. Powers -- The
lottery -- Shirley Jackson
Three heroines -- Pete Taylor -- An
old-fashioned story -- Jane Mayhall -- A
conversation with my father -- Grace Paley
Welcome to the monkey house -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Happy families -- A. C. Hoffmann-- Sonny's blues / -- James Baldwin
Children on their birthdays -- Truman Capote -- The
last voyage -- Tom Filer -- The
grandmother -- John Hawkes
Parker's back -- Flannery O' Connor
Light timber -- Nancy Potter
Voice of the town -- Curtis Harnack
Sand -- W. S. Merwin
Lost in the funhouse -- John Barth
Concerning the bodyguard -- Donald Barthelme -- The
Bulgarian poetess -- John Updike
"I always wanted you to admire my fasting" ;
or, looking at Kafka -- Philip Roth -- The
screamers -- LeRoi Jones -- The
Kugelmass episode -- Woody Allen -- A
man who writes -- Russell Edson
In the region of ice -- Joyce Carol Oates -- A
matter of vocabulary -- James Alan McPherson -- The
farm -- Joy Williams -- A
reasonable man -- Ann Beattie.
Edition Notes
Reprint. Originally published: Garden City, N.Y : Doubleday, c1981.
Includes index.
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