Major American Short Stories

Professor of English at Princeton University, A. Walton Litz has edited or co-edited over thirty textbooks, anthologies, and editions. He is a surrogate delagate for OUP NY.

• The Search for Form: Irving, Hawthorne, Poe, Melville and JamesWashington Irving: Rip Van Winkle; The Adventure of the German StudentNathaniel Hawthorne: Young Goodman Brown; Wakefield; Rappaccini's DaughterLigeia; The Fall of the House of Usher; The Purloined LetterHerman Melville: Bartleby the SerivenerHenry James: The Real Thing; The Jolly CornerRegionalism and RealismMark Twain: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County; How To Tell a StoryBret Harte: The Outcasts of Poker FlatWilliam Dean Howells: EdithaSarah Orne Jewett: The Courting of Sister WisbyKate Chopin: Desiree's BabyCharlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow WallpaperNeighbor Rosicky: Willa CatherA National Art FormStephen Crane: The Open Boat; Stephen Crane's Own StorySherwood Anderson: I Want To Know WhyF. Scott Fitzgerald: Babylon RevisitedErnest Hemingway: Big Two-Hearted RiverZora Neale Hurston: The Gilded Six-BitsWilliam Faulkner: Red Leaves; That Evening SunKatherine Anne Porter: Flowering JudasEudora Welty: Petrified ManRobert Penn Warren: Blackberry WinterRichard Wright: The Man Who Was Almost a ManSaul Bellow: Looking for Mr. GreenFlannery O'Connor: A Good Man Is Hard To FindBernard Malamud: The Magic BarrelPeter Taylor: Venus, Cupid, Folly and TimeJames Baldwin: Sonny's BluesPhilip Roth: Defender of the FaithJohn Updike: The Doctor's WifeJohn Cheever: The World of ApplesThe Short Story TodayJohn Barth: Lost in the FunhouseDonald Barthelme: The Indian UprisingRobert Coover: The Magic PokerGrace Paley: The Long-Distance RunnerJoyce Carol Oates: DaisyRobert Stone: HelpingRaymond Carver: ErrandAlice Walker: Everyday UseLeslie Marmon Silko: StorytellerLouise Erdrich: SnaresBiographical and Bibliographical NotesThe American Short Story: A General Bibliography

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