Short Story Masterpieces by American Women Writers

Short Story Masterpieces by American Women Writers
Author: Clarence C. Strowbridge
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2014-01-15
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0486499944

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Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Alice Walker, and Louise Erdrich are among the featured authors in this splendid anthology. Fourteen tales include Joyce Carol Oates' "Heat," Flannery O'Connor's "The Life You Save May Be Your Own," Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' "Gal Young Un," and "Why I Live at the P.O." by Eudora Welty.

Great Short Stories by American Women

Great Short Stories by American Women
Author: Candace Ward
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2012-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0486111083

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Choice collection of 13 stories includes "Life in the Iron Mills" by Rebecca Harding Davis, Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat," plus superb fiction by Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, many others.

American Short Story Masterpieces

American Short Story Masterpieces
Author: Clarence C. Strowbridge
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0486499138

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An affordable compilation of more than a dozen of the best American short stories features tales by Hawthorne, Twain, James, Cheever, Wharton, and Cather. Contents include "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat," and "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty.

Scribbling Women

Scribbling Women
Author: Elaine Showalter
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 566
Release: 1997
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780813523934

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From the Publisher: A new mother longing to write is judged "hysterical" and confined to her bedroom where she slowly loses herself in horrific fantasy. A young girl stirred by two beings--a handsome young man and an ethereal white heron--is forced to make a choice between them. A love affair quashed by convention ignites during a sudden storm. These tales of remarkable and ordinary lives in nineteenth-century America are told throughout women's voices that call out from the kitchen hearth, the solitary room, the prison cell. Stories by Louisa May Alcott, Willa Cather, Kate Chopin, and Edith Wharton, as well as by others less familiar, reveal a universe of emotions hidden beneath parochial scenes. American writers claimed the short story as their national genre in the nineteenth century, and women writers made it the most important outlet for their particular experiences. A unique selection, with an introduction, notes, selected criticism, and a chronology of the authors' lives and times.

Short Story Masterpieces

Short Story Masterpieces
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Publisher: Dell
Total Pages: 530
Release: 1954-03-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0440378648

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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!

A Pair of Silk Stockings and Other Short Stories

A Pair of Silk Stockings and Other Short Stories
Author: Kate Chopin
Publisher: Dover Publications
Total Pages: 64
Release: 1996-09-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780486292649

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Known for her vivid portrayals of Creole life in Louisiana, Kate Chopin (1851–1904) wrote, during her brief literary career, poignant and perceptive stories about the emotional lives of women. Bypassing many of the conventions of 19th-century realism, she won praise for her realistic portraits of the inhabitants of bayou and urban areas. This collection of nine stories contains one of her most famous works, "Désirée's Baby" — a haunting and ironic tale of miscegenation. Additional stories include "Madame Célestin's Divorce," "A Gentleman of Bayou Téche" and "At the 'Cadian Ball," from Bayou Folk; "A Respectable Woman," "A Night in Acadie" and Azélie" from A Night in Acadie; "The Dream of an Hour" and the title story. Written with grace, delicate humor and a keen understanding of the human — especially the female — psyche, these stories are a superb introduction to an important American writer whose literary career was cut short by the harsh criticism directed at her novel The Awakening (1899).

Great English Short Stories

Great English Short Stories
Author: Paul Negri
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2012-09-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0486114171

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DIVFirst-rate selections include Hardy's "The Fiddler of the Reels," James' "Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad," Dickens' "The Haunted Hotel," and tales by Saki, Kipling, Lawrence, Trollope, Stevenson, and others. /div

American Short Story Masterpieces

American Short Story Masterpieces
Author: Raymond Carver
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1989-04-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0440204232

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This highly acclaimed collection of short stories by American writers contains only the best literary art of the past four decades. Editors Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks have selected fiction that “tells a story”–and tells it with a masterful handling of language, situation, and insight. But what is so special about this volume is that it mirrors our age, our concerns, and our lives. Whether it’s the end of a marriage, as in Bobbie Ann Manson’s “Shiloh,” or the struggle with self-esteem and weight in Andre Dubus’s “The Fat Girl,” the 36 works included her probe issues that give us that “shock of recognition” that is the hallmark of great art—wonderful, absorbing fiction that will be read and reread for decades to come.

American Women Short Story Writers

American Women Short Story Writers
Author: Julie Brown
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2014-05-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317954203

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This collection of original and classic essays examines the contributions that female authors have made to the short story. The introductory chapter discusses why genre critics have ignored works by women and why feminist scholars have ignored the short story genre. Subsequent chapters discuss early stories by such authors as Lydia Maria Child and Rose Terry Cooke. Others are devoted to the influences (race, class, sexual orientation, education) that have shaped women's short fiction through the years. Women's special stylistic, formal and thematic concerns are also discussed in this study. The final essay addresses the ways our contemporary creative-writing classes are stifling the voices of emerging young female authors. The collection includes an extensive five-part bibliography.