50 Great American Short Stories by Sherwood Anderson, W.E.B. White, John Cheever, Robert M. Coates, Ernest Hemingway, George Ade, Finley Peter Dunne, Jack London, Fitz-James O'Brien, O. Henry, John Collier, Carson McCullers, Oliver La Farge, Washington Irving, Charles M. Flandrau, Erskine Caldwell, James Agee, Henry James, Irwin Shaw, Mark Twain, Conrad Aiken, Richard P. Russell, Dorothy Parker, William Maxwell, Ludwig Bemelmans, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Milton Crane, John Updike, Seymour Freedgood, Clarence Day Jr., William Saroyan, Theodore Dreiser, John Steinbeck, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, James Thurber, John McNulty, Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Vincent Benét, James Reid Parker, Bret Harte, Wallace Stegner, Edith Wharton, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Kay Boyle, William Carlos Williams, Sarah Orne Jewett, William Faulkner, Ring Lardner, Stephen Crane, Joseph Mitchell

50 Great American Short Stories

Sherwood Anderson, W.E.B. White, John Cheever, Robert M. Coates, Ernest Hemingway, George Ade, Finley Peter Dunne, Jack London, Fitz-James O'Brien, O. Henry, John Collier, Carson McCullers, Oliver La Farge, Washington Irving, Charles M. Flandrau, Erskine Caldwell, James Agee, Henry James, Irwin Shaw, Mark Twain, Conrad Aiken, Richard P. Russell, Dorothy Parker, William Maxwell, Ludwig Bemelmans, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Milton Crane, John Updike, Seymour Freedgood, Clarence Day Jr., William Saroyan, Theodore Dreiser, John Steinbeck, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, James Thurber, John McNulty, Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Vincent Benét, James Reid Parker, Bret Harte, Wallace Stegner, Edith Wharton, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Kay Boyle, William Carlos Williams, Sarah Orne Jewett, William Faulkner, Ring Lardner, Stephen Crane, Joseph Mitchell

502 pages • first pub 1963 (editions)

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A Splendid collection of 50 stories from Washington Irving's 'The Adventures Of A German Student' to John Updike's 'The Lucid Eye in Silver Town'.Such classic stories as Edgar Allan Poe’s 'Ms. Found in a Bottle', Bret Harte’s 'The Outcasts of Poke...

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lighthearted 100%
relaxing 100%

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slow 100%

Plot- or character-driven?

A mix: 100%

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Diverse cast of characters?

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