100 Great American Short Stories by John Grafton

100 Great American Short Stories by John Grafton

This celebration of America's literary legacy, a companion volume to Dover's 100 Great Short Stories, offers students and other readers a superb selection of short fiction by master storytellers. Contributors include Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, O. Henry, Willa Cather, Washington Irving, Henry James, Edgar Allan Poe, Louisa May Alcott, and many others.
The stories are arranged alphabetically by author. Selections from American literature of the nineteenth century include Herman Melville's The Fiddler, Bret Harte's The Outcasts of Poker Flat, Adventure of the German Student by Washington Irving, Ambrose Bierce's The Eyes of the Panther, The Open Boat by Stephen Crane, and Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Ambitious Guest. More recent stories include Djuna Barnes' A Night Among the Horses, Ernest Hemingway's Up in Michigan, Zora Neale Hurston's Sweat, To Build a Fire by Jack London, Theodore Dreiser's The Lost Phoebe, and Jesus Christ in Texas by W. E. B. Du Bois.

John Grafton was an Editor at Dover Publications for many years before his 2019 retirement. He is the editor of several volumes in the Dover Thrift series, including Great Speeches by Abraham Lincoln, The Declaration of Independence and Other Great Documents of American History, 1775-1865, Great Speeches by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and 100 Great American Short Stories. He lives in New Jersey.

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ISBN 13	9780486831848
ISBN 10	0486831841
Title	100 Great American Short Stories
Author	John Grafton
Series	Thrift Editions
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Dover Publications Inc.
Year published	2020-03-31
Number of pages	768
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