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100 Years of The Best American Short Stories (The Best American Series ®) by Lorrie Moore; Heidi Pitlor; Edna Ferber; Sherwood Anderson; Ernest Hemingway; Ring Lardner; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Katherine Anne Porter; William Faulkner; Nancy Hale; Eudora Welty; John Cheever; Tillie Olsen; James Baldwin; Philip Roth; Flannery O'Connor; John Updike; Raymond Carver; Joyce Carol Oates; Donald Barthelme; Stanley Elkin; Grace Paley; Charles Baxter; Mona Simpson; Richard Ford; Robert Stone; David Wong Louie; Alice Munro; Mary Gaitskill; Jamaica Kincaid; Akhil Sharma; Junot Díaz; Jhumpa Lahiri; ZZ Packer; Sherman Alexie; Edward P Jones; Benjamin Percy; Tobias Wolff; Nathan Englander; Julie Otsuka; George Saunders; Lauren Groff is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The Best American Short Stories is the longest-running and best-selling series of short fiction in the country. For the centennial celebration of this beloved annual series, master of the form Lorrie Moore selects forty stories from the more than two thousand that were published in previous editions. Series editor Heidi Pitlor recounts behind-the-scenes anecdotes and examines, decade by decade, the trends captured over a hundred years. Together, the stories and commentary offer an extraordinary guided tour through a century of literature with what Moore calls “all its wildnesses of character and voice.”These forty stories represent their eras but also stand the test of time. Here is Ernest Hemingway’s first published story and a classic by William Faulkner, who admitted in his biographical note that he began to write “as an aid to love-making.” Nancy Hale’s story describes far-reaching echoes of the Holocaust; Tillie Olsen’s story expresses the desperation of a single mother; James Baldwin depicts the bonds of brotherhood and music. Here is Raymond Carver’s “minimalism,” a term he disliked, and Grace Paley’s “secular Yiddishkeit.” Here are the varied styles of Donald Barthelme, Cha

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Author

Lorrie Moore; Heidi Pitlor; Edna Ferber; Sherwood Anderson; Ernest Hemingway; Ring Lardner; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Katherine Anne Porter; William Faulkner; Nancy Hale; Eudora Welty; John Cheever; Tillie Olsen; James Baldwin; Philip Roth; Flannery O'Connor; John Updike; Raymond Carver; Joyce Carol Oates; Donald Barthelme; Stanley Elkin; Grace Paley; Charles Baxter; Mona Simpson; Richard Ford; Robert Stone; David Wong Louie; Alice Munro; Mary Gaitskill; Jamaica Kincaid; Akhil Sharma; Junot Díaz; Jhumpa Lahiri; ZZ Packer; Sherman Alexie; Edward P Jones; Benjamin Percy; Tobias Wolff; Nathan Englander; Julie Otsuka; George Saunders; Lauren Groff

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780544056060

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Short Stories, History

Rating

4.4 / 5 (862 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14