The Penguin Book of American Short Stories

alternate cover for ISBN 0140029192/9780140029192 This collection offers twenty-one stories from the literature of America, a nation which has always been particularly at home in this form, and which has produced many of its masters. Some of the stories included — those by Poe, James and Hemingway for example — are already widely known. Some will be less familiar to the English reader. Taken as a whole, The Penguin Book of American Short Stories is an excellent and entertaining introduction to the rich diversity of pleasures that the American short story at its best can offer. Contents: - The legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving - Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne - The fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe - Bartleby by Herman Melville - The man that corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain - The outcasts of Poker Flat by Francis Bret Harte - One of the missing by Ambrose Bierce - The real thing by Henry James - An unfinished story by O. Henry - The bride comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane - Neighbor Rosicky by Willa Cather - To build a fire by Jack London - Death in the woods by Sherwood Anderson - Who dealt? by Ring Lardner - Flowering Judas by Katherine Anne Porter - The rich boy by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Delta autumn by William Faulkner - The battler by Ernest Hemingway - The jewbird by Bernard Malamud - Children on their birthdays by Truman Capote - Wife-wooing by John Updike