Great American Short Stories

by Stegner, Wallace; Stegner, Mary

• ISBN13: 9780440330608
• ISBN10: 0440330602
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1985-10-01
• Publisher: Dell

Summary

An outstanding collection chronicling the growth of the american short story from humorous legend to powerful contempory fiction. 

Contributors include:
Washington Irving • Herman Melville • Mark Twain • William Faulkner • John Steinbeck • Eudaro Welty • AND MORE!

Author Biography

Wallace Stegner (1909–1993) was the author of, among other novels, All the Little Live Things (winner of a Commonwealth Club Gold Medal), Angle of Repose (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), and The Spectator Bird (winner of the National Book Award). His nonfiction includes The Sound of Mountain Water, The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto, and Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West. Three of his short stories won O. Henry Prizes, and in 1980 he received the Robert Kirsch Award from the Los Angeles Times for his lifetime literary achievements.

Mary Stegner was the wife of Wallace Stegner and his constant assistant, as well as a violinist with the Stanford Symphony Orchestra. She was Wallace’s coeditor for Great American Short Stories and wrote the afterword for his book Remembering Laughter. She died in 2010.

Table of Contents

Introduction	9	(31)
Rip Van Winkle	31	(22)
Washington Irving
Young Goodman Brown	53	(16)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Fall of the House of Usher	69	(23)
Edgar Allan Poe
Bartleby the Scrivener	92	(44)
Herman Melville
Baker's Bluejay Yarn	136	(6)
Mark Twain
Tennessee's Partner	142	(12)
Bret Harte
The Boarded Window	154	(6)
Ambrose Bierce
The Real Thing	160	(31)
Henry James
A Village Singer	191	(17)
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Mrs. Ripley's Trip	208	(14)
Hamlin Garland
A Municipal Report	222	(19)
O. Henry
Roman Fever	241	(16)
Edith Wharton
The Open Boat	257	(30)
Men Crane
Unlighted Lamps	287	(22)
Sherwood Anderson
The Man Who Saw through Heaven	309	(23)
Wilbur Daniel Steele
Silent Snow, Secret Snow	332	(22)
Conrad Aiken
He	354	(13)
Katherine Anne Porter
The Catbird Seat	367	(12)
James Thurber
The Little Wife	379	(15)
William March
Wash	394	(16)
William Faulkner
The Snake	410	(13)
John Steinbeck
To the Mountains	423	(31)
Paul Horgan
Over the River and through the Wood	454	(8)
John O'Hara
The Wind and the Snow of Winter	462	(16)
Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Powerhouse	478	(15)
Eudora Welty
In Greenwich There Are Many Gravelled Walks	493
Hortense Calisher