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'American literature and the short story might be said to have come of age at about the same time, and this, along with something in the bustling and energetic American temperament, might go some way towards explaining why the two go together as well as they do.' Twenty-one short stories from some of the best American writers over the last two hundred years provide a mesmerizing, multi-faceted portrait of a country, a people and the unique literature produced by this most exuberant of nations.… (más)
Legend of Sleepy Hollow/Washington Irving, Young Goodman Brown/Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fall of the House of Usher/Edgar Allan Poe, Bartleby/Herman Melville, Man the Corrupted Hadleyburg/Mark Twain, Outcasts of Poker Flat/Francis Bret Harte, One of the Missing/Ambrose Bierce, The Real Thing/Henry James, An Unfinished Story/O. Henry, Bride Comes to Yellow Sky/Stephen Crane, Neighbor Rosicky/Willa Cather, To Build a Fire/Jack London, Death in the Woods/Sherwood Anderson, Who Dealt?/Ring Lardner, Flowering Judas/Katherine Anne Porter, The Rich Boy/F. Scott Fitzgerald, Delta Autumn/William Faulkner, The Battler/Ernest Hemingway, The Jewbird/Bernard Malamud, Children on their Birthdays/Truman Capote, Wife-Wooing/John Updike
'American literature and the short story might be said to have come of age at about the same time, and this, along with something in the bustling and energetic American temperament, might go some way towards explaining why the two go together as well as they do.' Twenty-one short stories from some of the best American writers over the last two hundred years provide a mesmerizing, multi-faceted portrait of a country, a people and the unique literature produced by this most exuberant of nations.
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