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Great American Short Stories

  • William March,
  • Conrad Aiken,
  • Hortense Calisher,
  • Hamlin Garland,
  • John O'Hara,
  • Eudora Welty,
  • William Faulkner,
  • Wallace Stegner,
  • Walter Van Tilburg Clark,
  • Katherine Anne Porter,
  • Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman,
  • Sherwood Anderson,
  • Wilbur Daniel Steele,
  • Washington Irving,
  • Paul Horgan,
  • O. Henry,
  • Stephen Crane,
  • Herman Melville,
  • Ambrose Bierce,
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne,
  • Bret Harte,
  • Mark Twain,
  • Edith Wharton,
  • Henry James,
  • Edgar Allan Poe,
  • James Thurber,
  • John Steinbeck,
  • Mary Stegner,
  • Mary (editor) Stegner

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Contains: Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Fall of the house of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- Bartleby the scrivener / Herman Melville -- Baker's bluejay yarn / Mark Twain -- Tennessee's partner / Bret Harte -- The real thing / Henry James -- The boarded window / Ambrose Bierce -- A village singer / Mary Wilkins Freeman -- Mrs.Ripley's trip / Hamlin Garland -- A muncipial report / O. Henry -- Roman fever / Edith Wharton -- The open boat / Stephen Crane -- Unlighted lamps / Sherwood Anderson -- The man who saw through heaven / Wilbur Daniel Steele -- Silent snow, secret snow / Conrad Aiken -- He / Katherine Anne Porter -- The catbird seat / James Thurber -- The little wife / William March -- Wash / William Faulkner -- The snake / John Steinbeck -- To the mountains / Paul Horgan -- Over the river and through the wood / John O'Hara -- The wind and the snow of winter / Walter Van Tilburg Clark -- Powerhouse / Eudora Welty -- In greenwich there are many gravelled walks / Hortense Calisher.

Genres

  • American fiction
  • short stories
  • American Horror tales
  • burial vaults
  • catalepsy
  • dragons
  • Fiction
  • gothic fiction
  • hermitages
  • heroic romances
  • horror
  • horror tales
  • hysteria
  • knights
  • maces
  • psychogenic death
  • tarns
  • Satanism
  • short story
  • Puritans
  • catechism
  • Devil
  • Children's fiction
  • Boys
  • Young men
  • Copyists
  • classic literature
  • Psychology
  • Securities industry
  • history and criticism
  • Social life and customs
  • United States in fiction
  • American Short stories
  • Short stories, american
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    About the authors

    • William March

      18 September 1893 - 15 May 1954

      4.57

      7 ratings · 23 works

    • Conrad Aiken

      1889 - 1973

      3.13

      8 ratings · 192 works

    • Hortense Calisher

      3.33

      3 ratings · 83 works

    • Hamlin Garland

      1860 - 1940

      4.00

      11 ratings · 101 works

    • John O'Hara

      1905 - 1970

      3.71

      7 ratings · 178 works

    • Eudora Welty

      1909 - 2001

      3.79

      19 ratings · 156 works

    • William Faulkner

      25 September 1897 - 6 July 1962

      3.77

      93 ratings · 877 works

    • Wallace Stegner

      18 Feb 1909 - 13 Apr 1993

      3.94

      16 ratings · 158 works

    • Walter Van Tilburg Clark

      3 Aug 1909 - 10 Nov 1971

      3.50

      2 ratings · 25 works

    • Katherine Anne Porter

      May 15, 1890 - September 18, 1980

      4.00

      16 ratings · 131 works

    • Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

      31 October 1852 - 13 March 1930

      4.06

      16 ratings · 163 works

    • Sherwood Anderson

      1876 - 1941

      3.65

      20 ratings · 244 works

    • Wilbur Daniel Steele

      1886 - 1970

      4.00

      1 ratings · 34 works

    • Washington Irving

      3 April 1783 - 28 November 1859

      4.11

      65 ratings · 1699 works

    • Paul Horgan

      1903 - 1995

      3.50

      2 ratings · 162 works

    • O. Henry

      September 11, 1862 - June 5, 1910

      3.93

      60 ratings · 425 works

    • Stephen Crane

      1 November 1871 - 5 June 1900

      3.77

      48 ratings · 840 works

    • Herman Melville

      1 August 1819 - 28 September 1891

      3.85

      240 ratings · 2366 works

    • Ambrose Bierce

      1842 - 1914?

      3.94

      137 ratings · 1088 works

    • Nathaniel Hawthorne

      4 July 1804 - 19 May 1864

      3.59

      228 ratings · 1885 works

    • Bret Harte

      1836 - 1902

      4.08

      24 ratings · 619 works

    • Mark Twain

      30 November 1835 - 21 April 1910

      3.86

      605 ratings · 7192 works

    • Edith Wharton

      24 January 1862 - 11 August 1937

      3.74

      137 ratings · 1898 works

    • Henry James

      15 April 1843 - 28 February 1916

      3.68

      136 ratings · 5088 works

    • Edgar Allan Poe

      19 January 1809 - 7 October 1849

      4.14

      390 ratings · 4027 works

    • James Thurber

      8 December 1894 - 2 November 1961

      3.94

      52 ratings · 278 works

    • John Steinbeck

      27 February 1902 - 20 December 1968

      3.96

      643 ratings · 739 works

    • Mary Stegner

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      0 ratings · 2 works

    • Mary (editor) Stegner

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      0 ratings · 1 works

    Editions

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      New Dell Edition, twenty-eighth printing

      Laurel

      1984-08

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      Laurel Edition, New Dell Edition printing eleven

      Dell Publishing Co. Inc.

      1967-12

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      Fifth printing

      Dell Publishing Co., Inc.

      1960-12

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      New Dell Edition, second printing

      Dell Publishing

      1962-09

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      New Dell Edition, sixth printing

      Dell Publishing Co., Inc.

      1964-11

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      New Dell Edition, third printing

      Dell Publishing Co., Inc.

      1962-11

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      Laurel Edition, 5th printing

      Dell Publishing Company

      1960-12

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      Dell

      October 1, 1985

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      First Dell printing

      Dell Publishing Co. Inc.

      1957-08

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      Dell Publishing

      October 1989

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      Dell Pub. Co.

      1957-01-01

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      Laurel -Dell

      1957-01-01

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      Dell

      1959-01-01

    • Edition cover

      Dell Publishing

      1958-01-01

    • Edition cover

      Laurel

      1957-01-01

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      Dell Publishing Co Inc

      1957-01-01

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      Dell

      1957-01-01

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      Bt Bound

      October 1999

    • Edition cover

      New Dell ed.

      Dell Pub. Co.

      1961

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      Dell Pub. Co

      1957