Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century

Since its first printing in 1954, this outstanding anthology has been the book of choice by teachers,...
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Author: Robert Penn Warren
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Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century by Warren, Robert Penn

Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century

$23.75

Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century

$23.75
Author: Robert Penn Warren
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

A truly exceptional collection of great stories, including:

The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane
The Horse Dealer's Daughter by D. H. Lawrence
Barn Burning by William Faulkner
The Sojourner by Carson McCullers
The Open Window by Saki
Flowering Judas by Katherine Anne Porter
The Boarding House by James Joyce
Soldier's Home by Ernest Hemingway
The Tree of Knowledge by Henry James
Why I Live at the P.O. by Eudora Welty

. . . and twenty-five more of the century's best stories

Author: Robert Penn Warren, Ernest Hemingway
Publisher: Dell
Published: 03/15/1954
Pages: 528
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 6.89h x 4.16w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780440378648

About the Author
Robert Penn Warren taught English at Yale University and was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and one for poetry, and of the National Book Award for poetry. He was the author, with Cleanth Brooks, of Understanding Fiction, and of the novels All the King's Men, World Enough and Time, Band of Angels, and Flood, as well as many other works of fiction, poetry, and literary criticism. He died in 1989.

Albert Erskine was a vice president and executive editor at Random House in New York. He was also on the staff of The Southern Review and was associated with the Louisiana State University Press. He died in 1993.


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