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Major American short stories

by A. Walton Litz

American Short storiesSocial life and customsFictionShort stories, american

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 /

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