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Great American short stories / edited by Paul Negri.
Featuring 19 of the finest works from the most distinguished writers in the American short-story tradition, this compilation begins with Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1835 tale "Young Goodman Brown" and ranges across an entire century, concluding with Ernest Hemingway's 1927 classic, "The Killers.".
Record details
- ISBN: 9780486421193 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0486421198 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: v, 248 pages ; 21 cm.
- Publisher: Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, 2002.
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Nathaniel Hawthorne: Young Goodman Brown (1835) -- Edgar Allan Poe: The tell-tale heart (1843) -- Herman Melville: Bartleby (1856) -- Bret Harte: The luck of Roaring Camp (1870) -- Stephen Crane: The bride comes to Yellow Sky (1878) -- Mark Twain: The private history of a campaign that failed (1885) -- Sarah Orne Jewett: A white heron (1886) -- Charles Waddell Chesnutt: The goophered grapevine (1887) -- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: A New England nun (1891) -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The yellow wallpaper (1892) -- Henry James: The real thing (1893) -- Kate Chopin: A pair of silk stockings (1897) -- Jack London: To build a fire (1908) -- Ambrose Bierce: An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1909) -- Theodore Dreiser: The lost phoebe (1916) -- Willa Cather: Paul's case (1920) -- F. Scott Fitzgerald: Bernice bobs her hair (1920) -- Sherwood Anderson: The egg (1921) -- Ernest Hemingway: The killers (1927). |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Albright Memorial Library | 813.01 GREAT (Text) | 50686014113398 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Altoona Area Public Library | GRE (Text) | 33240003575332 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Knoxville Public Library | 813 NEG (Text) | 30543003743823 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Pocono Mountain Public Library | 813/.0108 Gre (Text) | 35540000008221 | PMPL 2nd Floor Non-Fiction | Available | - |
