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The American Short Story

Thomas K. Parkes

First published 1994
Publisher State Street Press
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Pages xvii+1003
ISBN 068164687X

Despite not being a genre anthology, the bulk of contents are genre

  • Data from Internet Archive scan
  • Non-genre anthology, only genre contents entered below (despite being a non-genre anthology, the bulk of contents are genre)
  • No date other than copyright year
  • No edition or printing statement. No number line.
  • Publisher entered as per title page & rear dust jacket flap. However, copyright page has "Published by Galahad Books [over] A division of BBS Publishing Corporation [over] ... [over] This edition distributed by State Street Press"
  • Copyright page contains LCCN (94-77197) for Galahad Books edition
  • Poe's middle name is misspelled as "Allen" in ToC and title pages
  • "Gimpel the Fool" translated by Saul Bellow

Searching by ISBN: 068164687X

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Rip Van Winkle: A Posthumous Writing of Diedrich Knickerbocker Washington Irving Short Story
13 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving Novelette
37 Rappaccini's Daughter Nathaniel Hawthorne Novelette
61 The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allen Poe Novelette
76 The Murders in the Rue Morgue Edgar Allen Poe Novelette
103 The Purloined Letter Edgar Allen Poe Novelette
202 The Lady, or the Tiger? Frank R. Stockton Short Story
284 The Damned Thing Ambrose Bierce Short Story
291 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Ambrose Bierce Short Story
299 The Turn of the Screw Henry James Novel
381 Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, and the Tar Baby Joel Chandler Harris Short Story
385 A White Heron Sarah Orne Jewett Short Story
394 The Story of the Other Wise Man Henry van Dyke Novelette
445 The Furnished Room O. Henry Short Story
451 A Deal in Wheat Frank Norris Short Story
480 The Lost Phœbe Theodore Dreiser Short Story
583 Silent Snow, Secret Snow Conrad Aiken Short Story
656 The Devil and Daniel Webster Stephen Vincent Benét Short Story
754 Gimpel the Fool Isaac Bashevis Singer Short Story
841 The Country Husband John Cheever Novelette
862 The Magic Barrel Bernard Malamud Short Story
899 The Lottery Shirley Jackson Short Story
907 There Will Come Soft Rains Ray Bradbury Short Story
913 Welcome to the Monkey House Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Short Story
990 Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Joyce Carol Oates Short Story
xii Introduction (The American Short Story) Thomas K. Parkes Essay

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
The American Short Story: A Treasury of the Memorable and Familiar by the Great American Writers from Washington Irving to Saul Bellow Cover 1994 Galahad Books Hardcover Anthology Winslow Homer xvii+1003