Fifty Best American Short Stories
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- Synopsis
- From the book: From fifty years of The Best American Short Stories, Martha Foley has reaped a golden harvest of fifty stories from the outstanding hundreds that appeared in the annual volumes of this most distinguished and long-lived of short-story anthologies. The result is a rich creme de la creme collection, where the common denominator is enduring quality. Arranged chronologically, the stories reveal the enormous vigor and variety maintained by our nation's writers through the eruptive changes of half a century. Here are the established masters of American letters-among them Anderson, Lather, Dreiser, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Wolfe-writing in the period limned by the First World War, the blazing twenties, and the upheavals of the Depression. They are followed by the newer post-World War II voices of such writers as James Baldwin, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, John Updike. Also presented, with a fresh sense of discovery, are a number of undeservedly "forgotten" stories, long out of print. This many-faceted volume will provide hours of pure pleasure for both the serious and the casual reader. It is a book destined to be wellthumbed and well-loved, with an honored place on the bookshelves of home and library alike.
- Copyright:
- 1965
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 814 Pages
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 01/09/07
- Copyrighted By:
- Houghton Mifflin
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- earl schwab
- Proofread By:
- Lena
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.