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Fifty Great American Short Stories by Milton Crane

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

Milton Crane is a George Washington University and University of Chicago Professor Emeritus of English Language and Literature. He is the author of various books and articles on English literature, as well as the editor of 50 Great American Short Tales, a Bantam collection.

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ISBN 13 9780553272949
ISBN 10 0553272942
Title Fifty Great American Short Stories
Author Milton Crane
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Random House USA Inc
Year published 1984-08-01
Number of pages 672
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.