The Signet Classic Book of American Short Stories
- Paperback
688 pages
- Release Date
2 November 2004
Summary
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
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780451529633 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0451529634 |
| Author: | Burton Raffel |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Signet |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 688 |
| Release Date: | 2 November 2004 |
| Weight: | 374g |
| Dimensions: | 38mm x 106mm x 171mm |
| Audience Age: | 18-17 |
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Burton Raffel
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. He has also authored 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. His own poetry is collected in Mia Poems. 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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