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Tell-tale Heart / Edgar Allan Poe
Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne
Outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte
Open boat / Stephen Crane
All-gold canon / Jack London
Furnished room / O. Henry
Lost phoebe / Theodore Dreiser
Neighbor rosicky / Willa Cather
Sophistication / Sherwood Anderson
Now I lay me / Ernest Hemingway
By the waters of Babylon / Stephen Vincent Benet
Leader of the people / John Steinbeck
Bear / William Faulkner
Jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter
Summer of the beautiful white horse / William Saroyan
Secret sharer / Joseph Conrad
Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney / Rudyard Kipling
Red-headed league / A. Conan Doyle
Storyteller / Saki (H. H. Munro)
Timber / John Galsworthy
Man who could work miracles / H. G. Wells
Dill pickle / Katherine Mansfield
Lotus-eater / W. Somerset Maugham
Death of the Dauphin / Alphonse Daudet
Inn / Guy de Maupassant
Beggar / Anton Chekov
Invisible collection / Stefan Zweig
Laugh in the desert / Pedro Prado

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
536

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Cover of: Great Short Stories
Great Short Stories
Jun 01, 1950, Harcourt, Brace and Company
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Cover of: Great Short Stories
Great Short Stories
1950, Harcourt, Brace and Company
Hardcover in English

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Table of Contents

To the readers of this book: What is a short story?
How a short story is written
How to read a short story
What is a good story?
Glossary of terms used in talking about the short story
Short story in America: Tell-Tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe
Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne
Outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte
Open boat / Stephen Crane
All-gold canon / Jack London
Furnished room / O. Henry
Lost phoebe / Theodore Dreiser
Neighbor rosicky / Willa Cather
Sophistication / Sherwood Anderson
Now I lay me / Ernest Hemingway
By the waters of Babylon / Stephen Vincent Benet
Leader of the people / John Steinbeck
Bear / William Faulkner
Jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter
Summer of the beautiful white horse / William Saroyan
Short story in Great Britain: Secret sharer / Joseph Conrad
Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney / Rudyard Kipling
Red-headed league / A. Conan Doyle
Storyteller / Saki (H. H. Munro)
Timber / John Galsworthy
Man who could work miracles / H. G. Wells
Dill pickle / Katherine Mansfield
Lotus-eater / W. Somerset Maugham
Short story in other countries: Death of the Dauphin / Alphonse Daudet
Inn / Guy de Maupassant
Beggar / Anton Chekov
Invisible collection / Stefan Zweig
Laugh in the desert / Pedro Prado

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographies.

Published in
New York
Copyright Date
1950

Classifications

Library of Congress
PZ1.S34 Gr

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
viii, 536 p.
Number of pages
536

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6069837M
Internet Archive
greatshortstorie00schr
LCCN
50008357
OCLC/WorldCat
1239176
Library Thing
1998188
Goodreads
59494581

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