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200 years of great American short stories / edited by Martha Foley.

New York : Galahad Books, c1975.

Short stories, American.

xii, 968 p. ; 25 cm.

A pretty story / Francis Hopkinson -- Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- Peter Rugg, the missing man / William Austin -- The grey champion / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The big bear of Arkansas / T. B. Thorpe -- The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe -- Bartleby the scrivener / Herman Melville -- Tennessee's partner / Bret Harte -- Captain Kidd's money / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Marjorie Daw / Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- The lady or the tiger? / Frank Stockton -- Over on t'other mounting / Charles Egbert Cradock -- The revolt of mother / Mary Wilkins Freeman.

One of the missing / Ambrose Bierce -- The return of a pirate / Hamlin Garland -- The real thing /. Henry James -- The courting of Sister Wisby / Sarah Orne Jewett -- The open boat / Stephen Crane -- The man that corrupted Hadleyburg / Samuel Langhorne Clemens -- The furnished room / O. Henry -- To build a fire / Jack London -- The strength of god and the teacher / Sherwood Anderson -- The diamond as big as the Ritz / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Haircut / Ring Lardner -- Double birthday / Willa Cather -- Spring evening / James T. Farrell -- Masses of men / Erskine Caldwell.

The guilded six-bits / Zora Neale Hurston -- Silent snow, secret snow / Conrad Aiken -- An odor of verbena / William Faulkner -- The daring young man on the flying trapeze / William Saroyan -- The snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway -- A tooth for Paul Revere / Stephen Vincent Benet -- Noon wine / Katherine Anne Porter -- The leader of the people / John Steinbeck -- Lily Daw and the three ladies / Eudora Welty -- Fire and cloud / Richard Wright -- The patterns of love / William Maxwell -- The ballad of the Sad Cafe / Carson McCullers -- Cass Mastern's wedding ring / Robert Penn Warren.

The wedding: Beacon Hill / Jean Stafford -- Rain in the heart / Peter Taylor -- Gunners' passage / Irwin Shaw -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- February 1999: Ylla / Ray Bradbury -- The country husband / John Cheever -- A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- The mexican girl / Jack Kerouac -- The pedersen kid / William H. Gas -- Seven say you can hear corn grow / Kay Boyle -- Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates -- Tell me how long the train's been gone / James Baldwin -- Son / John Updike -- Yellow woman / Leslie Silko.

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