Short Story Masterpieces
35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century
$19.98
- Paperback
528 pages
- Release Date
15 March 1954
Summary
Since its first printing in 1954, this outstanding anthology has been the book of choice by teachers, students, and lovers of short fiction. Surveying stories by British and American writers in the first half of the twentieth century, editors Robert Penn Warren and Albert Erskine selected stories that broke new ground and challenged the imagination with their style, subject matter, or tone: the unforgettable, enduring works that shaped the literature of our time.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780440378648 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0440378648 |
| Author: | Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Robert Penn Warren, Albert Erskine |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House USA Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 528 |
| Release Date: | 15 March 1954 |
| Weight: | 283g |
| Dimensions: | 35mm x 106mm x 172mm |
| Series: | Dell |
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Ernest Hemingway
Robert Penn Warren
Born: 1905, Guthrie, Kentucky Died: 1989
Robert Penn Warren was a celebrated American writer who received numerous accolades for his literary achievements. Throughout his career, he was honored with three Pulitzer Prizes, the National Book Award, the National Medal for Literature, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 1986, he was appointed as the nation’s first Poet Laureate.
William Faulkner
Born: 1897, New Albany, Mississippi Died: 1962, Oxford, Mississippi
William Faulkner, born into a family with a strong Southern heritage, grew up in Oxford, Mississippi. He left high school at fifteen to work in his grandfather’s bank. Though initially rejected by the U.S. military, he joined the Canadian flyers with the RAF, but the war concluded before he completed his training. He later studied at the University of Mississippi and briefly visited Europe in 1925.
Faulkner’s literary career began with the publication of his first poem in The New Republic in 1919. His early collections of poetry and novels paved the way for his seminal work, The Sound and the Fury, published in 1929. This marked the beginning of his most prolific creative period, which included highly acclaimed novels such as As I Lay Dying (1930), Sanctuary (1931), Light in August (1932), Absalom, Absalom! (1936), and The Wild Palms (1939). During the 1930s, Faulkner also contributed to Hollywood, writing film scripts, including The Blue Lamp in collaboration with Raymond Chandler.
In recognition of his profound literary contributions, William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949 and the Pulitzer Prize for The Reivers shortly before his death in July 1962.
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