The Signet Classic Book of American Short Stories

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Burton Raffel
Penguin, 02 նոյ, 2004 թ. - 688 էջ
The best of American short fiction

Spanning over 100 years of literary history, here are 33 of the finest short stories by Washington Irving * Nathaniel Hawthorne * Edgar Allan Poe * Herman Melville * Harriet Beecher Stowe * Bret Harte * Bayard Taylor * Rose Terry Cooke * Ambrose Bierce * Hamlin Garland * Mary E. Wilkens Freeman * Henry James * Charlotte Perkins Gilman * Sarah Orne Jewett * Grace Elizabeth King * Harold Frederic * Kate Chopin * Stephen Crane * Edith Wharton * Mark Twain * Jack London * F. Hopkinson Smith * Zona Gale * O. Henry * Sherwood Anderson * Ernest Hemingway * John Dos Passos * Stephen Vincent Benet * Willa Cather * William Faulkner * James Thurber * F. Scott Fitzgerald * William Saroyan

 

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Introduction
3
HAROLD FREDERIC
28
The Specter Bridegroom 1820
32
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
49
EDGAR ALLAN
65
HERMAN MELVILLE
105
HARRIETBEECHER STOWE
147
BRET HARTE
161
GRACE ELIZABETH KING
339
The War Widow 1894
347
KATE CHOPIN
376
EDITH WHARTON
414
MARK TWAIN
428
JACK LONDON
482
F HOPKINSON SMITH
504
ZONA GALE
518

BAYARD TAYLOR
174
ROSE TERRY COOKE
194
AMBROSE BIERCE
218
MARY E WILKINS FREEMAN
250
HENRY JAMES
265
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN
295
SARAH ORNE JEWETT
314
O HENRY
533
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
552
STEPHEN VINCENT BENET
575
WILLA CATHER
592
WILLIAM FAULKNER
627
JAMES THURBER
660
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Burton Raffel has taught English, Classics, and Comparative Literature at universities in the United States, Israel, and Canada. His books include translations of Beowulf, Horace: Odes, Epodes, Epistles, Satires, The Complete Poetry and Prose of Chairil Anwar, From the Vietnamese, Ten Centuries of Poetry, The Complete Poetry of Osip Emilevich, Mandelstram (with Alla Burago), and Poems From the Old English and The Annotated Milton; several critical studies, Introduction to Poetry, How to Read a Poem, The Development of Modern Indonesian Poetry, and The Forked Tounge: A Study of the Translation Process; and Mia Poems, a volume of his own poetry. Mr. Raffel practiced law on Wall Street and taught in the Ford Foundation’s English Language Teacher Training Project in Indonesia.

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