A pocket book of modern American short stories Collectif d'auteurs
Résumé
Since its first publication, in 1943, this anthology of the finest American writing of the twenties and thirties has sold over one and one-half million copies. Now, two and one-half decades later, the distinguished authors represented here remain the most prominent figures in what is recognized as the high point of modern American fiction. These writers, all superb craftsmen, set a new standard of writing for our national literature. Their stories, documents of their time, are a record of our yesterdays-experiences transmitted by the fire of their imagination.
- Auteur :
- Collectif d'auteurs
- Éditeur :
- England, Washington Square Press, 1943
- Genre :
- Nouvelle
- Langue :
- anglais.
- Description du livre original :
- 1 vol. (292 p.)
- Domaine public :
- Non
Table des matières
- Mentions légales
- Table des matières
- Quatrième de couverture
- Introduction 1
- Introduction 2
- A POCKET BOOK OF MODERN AMERICAN SHORT STORIES
- Stephen Vincent Benét - Johnny Pye and the Fool-Killer
- Mackinlay Kantor – The Romance of Rossy Ridge
- Ernest Hemingway - The Snows of Kilimanjaro
- John Steinbeck - The Leader of the People
- Ring Lardner - Champion
- F. Scott Fitzgerald - Babylon Revisited
- Conrad Aiken - Silent Snow, Secret Snow
- Erskine Caldwell - Country Full of Swedes
- Dorothy Parker - You Were Perfectly Fine
- James Thurber - The Night the Ghost Got In
- Sinclair Lewis - Young Man Axelbrod
- William Faulkner - That Evening Sun Go Down
- Jerome Weidman - The Explorers
- Albert Maltz - The Happiest Man on Earth
- Katherine Anne Porter - That Tree
- William Saroyan - Going Home
- Sally Benson - Profession: Housewife
- Eudora Welty - A Visit of Charity
- Carson McCullers - A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud
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