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The Penguin Book of American Short Stories by James Cochrane, Cochrane, James., J. Cochrane, James Cochrane, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, Henry James, O. Henry, Stephen Crane, Willa Cather, Jack London, Sherwood Anderson, Ring Lardner, Katherine Anne Porter, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Bernard Malamud, Truman Capote, John Updike is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Penguin Book of American Short Stories about?
Introducing twenty-one short stories from some of the best American writers over two hundred years of history. 'American literature and the short story might be said to have come of age at about the same time, and this, along with something in the bustling and energetic American temperament, might go some way towards explaining why the two go together as well as they do.' Twenty-one short stories from some of the best American writers over the last two hundred years provide a mesmerizing, multi-
Who reads The Penguin Book of American Short Stories?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- James Cochrane, Cochrane, James., J. Cochrane, James Cochrane, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, Henry James, O. Henry, Stephen Crane, Willa Cather, Jack London, Sherwood Anderson, Ring Lardner, Katherine Anne Porter, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Bernard Malamud, Truman Capote, John Updike
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780141959665
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Rating
- 3.64 / 5 (79 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
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