Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century
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Book Overview
Since its first printing in 1954, this outstanding anthology has been the book of choice by teachers, students, and lovers of short fiction. Surveying stories by British and American writers in the first half of the twentieth century, editors Robert Penn Warren and Albert Erskine selected stories that broke new ground and challenged the imagination with their style, subject matter, or tone: the unforgettable, enduring works that shaped the literature...
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0440378648
ISBN13:9780440378648
Release Date:March 1954
Publisher:Random House Publishing Group
Length:528 Pages
Weight:0.61 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 4.2" x 6.9"
Customer Reviews
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Short Stories
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
This is a wonderful book to take with you on an airplane or on your daily subway ride! It is exactly what I was looking for after being tired of the 500+ page books everyone is publishing these days which take up so much time in a busy life!
A word on these stories over fifty years after publication date
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
This mass- market collection of stories was published in 1954. It was thus an educational tool for many of us who wanted to know the 'story as a form'. It has some truly wonderful stories, Hemingway's 'Soldier's Home' Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' Joyce's 'The Boarding House' Sherwood Anderson's ' Egg', and one of my all - time favorite's Irwin Shaw's 'Eighty- Yard Run'. It is a very rich and rewarding collection. Had a similar anthology been published today it would include other names,certainly Salinger, Raymond Carver, and my all- time favorite short story- writer Isaac Bashevis Singer.
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