| Author/Contributor(s): | Warren, Robert Penn; Erskine, Albert; Hemingway, Ernest; Faulkner, William |
| Publisher: | Dell |
| Date: | 3/15/1954 |
| Binding: | Mass-market Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Short stories can be funny, pathetic, frightening, uplifting, nostalgic, beautiful—and it is just this variety that makes them the popular and satisfying reading they are. Here are thirty-five of the best stories by British and American writers in the first half of the twentieth century, in an outstanding anthology that ranges in kind from the humor of James Thurber and Ring Lardner to the irony of Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce.
Each story is different from every other—but each bears the stamp of unmistakable greatness, 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
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.