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Contains:
Winter Dreams
What Stumped the Bluejays
To Build a Fire
A Jury of Her Peers
The Storm
The Pioneer Hep-Cat
The Furnished Room
I Can’t Breathe
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
A New England Nun
The Chrysanthemums
Tell-tale Heart
The Man Who Saw the Flood
Barn Burning
The Yellow Wall Paper
Hook
The Key
The Shore Line at Sunset
The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown
Coroner’s Inquest
Roman Fever
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
The Last Gas Station
The Fifty-First Dragon
Sir Edmund Orme
The Daemon Lover
The Blue Hotel
You’ll Never Know, Eear, How Much I Love You
The Beauty
The Devil and Daniel Webster
Winter Night
Bartleby the Scrivener
Christmas is a Sad Season for the Poor
The Boarded Window
Jug of silver / Truman Capote --
Night club / Katharine Brush --
The lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser --
The most dangerous game / Richard Connell --
The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud --
If Grant had been drinking at Appomattox / James Thurber --
The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving --
The music of Erich Zann / H.P. Lovecraft --
Enoch and the gorilla / Flannery O'Connor --
The untold lie / Sherwood Anderson --
Horse thief / Erskine Caldwell --
The haunted boy / Carson McCullers --
The valiant woman / J.F. Powers --
The minister's wife / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
The rockpile / James Baldwin --
The enchanted bluff / Willa Cather --
O how she laughed / Conrad Aiken.

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
640

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Cover of: Great American Short Stories
Great American Short Stories
1977, Reader's Digest Association
Hardcover in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Great American Short Stories
Great American Short Stories
1977, Reader's Digest Association
hardcover in English
Cover of: Great American Short Stories
Great American Short Stories
1977, Reader's Digest Association, Inc.
hardcover in English - First Edition

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Table of Contents

Winter dreams / F. Scott Fitzgerald --
What stumped the bluejays / Mark Twain --
To build a fire / Jack London --
A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell --
The storm / Jesse Stuart --
The pioneer hep-cat / John O'Hara --
The furnished room / O. Henry --
I can't breathe / Ring Lardner --
The short happy life of Francis Macomber / Ernest Hemingway --
A New England Nun / Mary E. Wilkins --
The Chrysanthemum / John Steinbeck --
The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe --
The man who saw the flood / Richard Wright --
Barn burning / William Faulkner --
The yellow wall paper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman --
Hook / Walter Van Tilburg Clark --
The key / Eudora Welty --
The shore line at sunset / Ray Bradbury --
The idyl of Miss Sarah Brown / Damon Runyon --
Coroner's inquest / Marc Connelly --
Roman fever / Edith Wharton --
The outcasts of poker flat / Bret Harte --
The last gas station / Shirley Ann Grau --
The fifty-first dragon / Heywood Broun --
Sir Edmund Orme / Henry Jame --
The daemon lover / Shirley Jackson --
The blue hotel / Stephen Crane --
You'll never know, dear, how much i love you / John Updike --
The beauty / Pearl S. Buck --
The devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benet --
Winter night / Kay Boyle --
Bartleby the scrivener / Herman Melville --
Christmas is a sad season for the poor / John Cheever --
The boarded window / Ambrose Bierce --
Jug of silver / Truman Capote --
Night club / Katharine Brush --
The lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser --
The most dangerous game / Richard Connell --
The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud --
If Grant had been drinking at Appomattox / James Thurber --
The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving --
The music of Erich Zann / H.P. Lovecraft --
Enoch and the gorilla / Flannery O'Connor --
The untold lie / Sherwood Anderson --
Horse thief / Erskine Caldwell --
The haunted boy / Carson McCullers --
The valiant woman / J.F. Powers --
The minister's wife / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
The rockpile / James Baldwin --
The enchanted bluff / Willa Cather --
O how she laughed / Conrad Aiken.

Edition Notes

Published in
Pleasantville, New York
Copyright Date
1977

The Physical Object

Format
hardcover
Pagination
640p.
Number of pages
640

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL35599319M
Internet Archive
isbn_9780895770332
ISBN 10
0895770334
ISBN 13
9780895770332
LCCN
76010933
OCLC/WorldCat
1035353310
Goodreads
1110360

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