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The Oxford book of American short stories by Joyce Carol Oates; Washington Irving; Jack London; Stephen Crane; Edith Wharton; Willa Cather; Ernest Hemingway; F. Scott Fitzgerald; William Carlos Williams; Katherine Anne Porter; Langston Hughes; Flannery O'Connor; Nathaniel Hawthorne; James Baldwin; Ray Bradbury; Eudora Welty; Isaac Bashevis Singer; Bernard Malamud; Saul Bellow; John Cheever; Ursula K. Le Guin; John Updike; Raymond Carver; Herman Melville; Edgar Allan Poe; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Mark Twain; Kate Chopin; Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Henry James is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Oxford book of American short stories about?

<p><P>"How ironic," Joyce Carol Oates writes in her introduction to this marvelous collection, "that in our age of rapid mass-production and the easy proliferation of consumer products, the richness and diversity of the American literary imagination should be so misrepresented in most anthologies." Why, she asks, when writers such as Samuel Clemens, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Saul Bellow, and John Updike have among them written hundreds of short stories, do anthologists settle on the same two or three titles by each author again and again? "Isn't the implicit promise of an anthology that it will, or aspires to, present something different, unexpected?"<br> In <b>The Oxford Book of American Short Stories</b>, Joyce Carol Oates offers a sweeping survey of American short fiction, in a collection of fifty-six tales that combines classic works with many "different, unexpected" gems, and that invites readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Some selections simply can't be improved on, Oates admits, and she happily includes such time-honored works as Irving's "Rip Van Winkle," Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," and Hemingway's "A

Author

Joyce Carol Oates; Washington Irving; Jack London; Stephen Crane; Edith Wharton; Willa Cather; Ernest Hemingway; F. Scott Fitzgerald; William Carlos Williams; Katherine Anne Porter; Langston Hughes; Flannery O'Connor; Nathaniel Hawthorne; James Baldwin; Ray Bradbury; Eudora Welty; Isaac Bashevis Singer; Bernard Malamud; Saul Bellow; John Cheever; Ursula K. Le Guin; John Updike; Raymond Carver; Herman Melville; Edgar Allan Poe; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Mark Twain; Kate Chopin; Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Henry James

Publisher

Oxford [England] ; New York: Oxford University Press

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195070651

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories

Rating

4.16 / 5 (430 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13