The Oxford Book of American Short Stories
by Edith Wharton and Henry James and John Updike and Bernard Malamud and Jack London and Ernest Hemingway and Herman Melville and Ray Bradbury and Mark Twain and Ursula K. Le Guin and Joyce Carol Oates and Flannery O'Connor and F. Scott Fitzgerald and William Carlos Williams and Saul Bellow and Kate Chopin and Edgar Allan Poe and Raymond Carver and John Cheever and Nathaniel Hawthorne and Eudora Welty and Katherine Anne Porter and Langston Hughes and Isaac Bashevis Singer and Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Stephen Crane and Harriet Beecher Stowe and Washington Irving and James Baldwin and Willa Carter
This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.
Release Date:
August 31, 1994
