Major American short stories
A. Walton Litz
Major American short stories
Search for form: Irving, Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, and James -- Rip Van Winkle; Adventure of the German student / Washington Irving (1783-1859) -- My kinsman, Major Molineux; Young Goodman Brown; Wakefield; Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) -- Ligeia; William Wilson; Fall of the House of Usher; Purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) -- Bartleby the scrivener; Benito Cereno / Herman Melville (1819-1891) -- Daisy Miller; From the preface to Daisy Miller; Real thing; Jolly corner / Henry James (1843-1916) -- Regionalism and realism -- Celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain (1835-1910) -- Editha / William Dean Howells (1837-1920) -- Courting of sister Wisby / Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) -- Return of a private / Hamlin Garland (1860-1940) -- National art form -- Open boat; Stephen Crane's own story; Bride comes to Yellow Sky / Stephen Crane (1871-1900) -- Roman fever / Edith Wharton (1862-1937) -- I want to know why / Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) -- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) -- Big Two-Hearted River / Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961) -- Red leaves; That evening sun / William Faulkner (1897-1962) -- Petrified man / Eudora Welty (1909- ) -- Blackberry winter / Robert Penn Warren (1905- ) -- Man who was almost a man / Richard Wright -- Looking for Mr. Green / Saul Bellow (1915- ) -- Good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) -- Magic barrel / Bernard Malamud (1914- ) -- Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time / Peter Taylor (1919- ) -- A & P / John Updike (1932- ) -- Short story today -- Upon the sweeping flood / Joyce Carol Oates (1938- ) -- Lost in the funhouse / John Barth (1930- ) -- Indian uprising / Donald Barthelme (1933- ) -- Magic poker / Robert Coover (1932- ) -- World of apples / John Cheever (1912- ).
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