Fifty Great American Short Stories

By Milton Crane | Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

About the book

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

Editions of Fifty Great American Short Stories

Paperback
ISBN 9780553272949

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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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What is Fifty Great American Short Stories about?

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

What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Fifty Great American Short Stories?

Fiction > Fiction: literary and general non-genre > Classic fiction: literary and general

Where can I read a sample of Fifty Great American Short Stories?

You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9780553272949

Who is/are the Author/s of the book Fifty Great American Short Stories?

Milton Crane

Who is the Publisher of the book Fifty Great American Short Stories?

Random House Publishing Group

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Fifty Great American Short Stories is available as paperback(ISBN 9780553272949)

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