Fifty Great American Short StoriesRandom House Publishing Group, 01/08/1984 - 672 من الصفحات A brilliant, far-reaching collection of stories from Washington Irving to John Updike. The Classic Stories Edgar Allan Poe’s Ms. Found in a Bottle Bret Harte’s The Outcasts of Poker Flat Sherwood Anderson’s Death in the Woods Stephen Vincent Benét’s By the Waters of Babylon The Great Writers Melville James Dreiser Faulkner Hemingway Steinbeck McCullers The Little-Known Masterpieces Edith Wharton’s The Dilettante Finley Peter Dunne’s Mr. Dooley on the Popularity of Fireman Charles M. Flandrau’s A Dead Issue James Reid Parker’s The Archimandrite’s Niece |
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THE ADVENTURE OF THE GERMAN STUDENT | 1 |
MS FOUND IN A BOTTLE Edgar Allan Poe | 18 |
THE FIDDLER Herman Melville | 28 |
WHAT WAS IT? FitzJames OBrien | 34 |
LUCK Mark Twain | 46 |
THE DAMNED THING Ambrose Bierce | 61 |
THE TWO FACES Henry James | 69 |
A NEW ENGLAND NUN Mary E Wilkins Freeman | 82 |
THE DARKNESS OF THE NIGHT Robert M Coates | 272 |
THE OLD PEOPLE William Faulkner | 281 |
GRAPES FOR MONSIEUR CAPE Ludwig Bemelmans | 298 |
A MAN OF THE WORLD Ernest Hemingway | 308 |
THE RESTING PLACE Oliver La Farge | 316 |
THE TOUCH OF NUTMEG MAKES IT John Collier | 328 |
THE HARNESS John Steinbeck | 336 |
FRIEND OF THE FAMILY Kay Boyle | 349 |
THE COURTING OF SISTER WISBY Sarah Orne Jewett | 94 |
THE DILETTANTE Edith Wharton | 109 |
MASTERS OF ARTS O Henry | 118 |
EFFIE WHITTLESY George Ade | 131 |
MR DOOLEY ON THE POPULARITY OF FIREMEN | 137 |
A DEAD ISSUE Charles M Flandrau | 150 |
THE LOST PHOEBE Theodore Dreiser | 171 |
FATHER IS FIRM WITH HIS AILMENTS Clarence Day | 186 |
TO BUILD A FIRE Jack London | 203 |
THE USE OF FORCE William Carlos Williams | 218 |
SILENT SNOW SECRET SNOW Conrad Aiken | 232 |
BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON Stephen Vincent Benét | 249 |
SOLDIERS OF THE REPUBLIC Dorothy Parker | 261 |
FARRARS HARDTACK John McNulty | 268 |
THE RUMOR Erskine Caldwell | 356 |
THERE WAS A YOUNG LADY OF PERTH William Saroyan | 362 |
THE DOWNFALL OF FASCISM IN BLACK ANKLE COUNTY | 371 |
THE FRENCH SCARECROW William Maxwell William Maxwell | 379 |
THE BLUEWINGED TEAL Wallace Stegner | 392 |
THE ARCHIMANDRITES NIECE James Reid Parker | 409 |
A MOTHERS TALE James Agee | 415 |
THE NATIONAL PASTIME John Cheever | 435 |
THE GIRLS IN THEIR SUMMER DRESSES Irwin Shaw | 449 |
THE DEATH OF SHORTY Richard P Bissell | 455 |
MADAME ZILENSKY AND THE KING OF FINLAND | 479 |
THE LUCID EYE IN SILVER TOWN John Updike | 487 |
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