American Short Stories

by Hitchcock, Bert; Kouidis, Margaret

• ISBN13: 9780321484895
• ISBN10: 0321484894
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-04
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

American Short Stories, 8/e is a streamlined anthology that includes "classic" works and contemporary stories that are organized chronologically. Of the sixty selected stories making up this anthology, sixteen are new to the eighth edition and nine of the authors are new. Increased attention is given to the social and cultural contexts in which the short fiction of the United States unfolded. The stories represent a wide range of themes and techniques, forms and types, motifs, tones, and issues.

Table of Contents

Contents
Preface	p. vii
One The First Century, 1820-19101
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow	p. 25
The Birth-mark	p. 46
Poe The Black Cat	p. 59
A Piano in "Arkansaw"	p. 67
Bartleby, the Scrivener	p. 73
Tennessee's Partner	p. 100
The Coup de Gracirc;ce	p. 108
The Real Thing	p. 114
A White Heron	p. 133
The Storm	p. 142
The Revolt of "Mother"	p. 148
The Passing of Grandison	p. 161
Under the Lion's Paw	p. 174
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The Yellow Wall-Paper	p. 186
The Ransom of Red Chief	p. 200
The Blue Hotel	p. 209
Suggestions for Discussion and Writing	p. 230
Section Two The Earlier Twentieth Century, 1910-1950	p. 233
The Other Two	p. 249
Willa Cather Paul's Case	p. 265
The Egg	p. 280
The Use of Force	p. 289
The Grave	p. 294
The Gilded Six-Bits	p. 300
Babylon Revisited	p. 310
Barn Burning	p. 327
Ernest Hemingway A Clean, Well-Lighted Place	p. 342
Langston Hughes Thank You, Ma'm	p. 347
The Chrysanthemums	p. 351
Big Boy Leaves Home	p. 361
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Eudora Welty Petrified Man	p. 394
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