100 years of the best American short stories

Collects forty short stories published between 1915 and 2015, from writers that include Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, and Alice Munro that exemplify their era and stand the test of time.

Other Authors: Moore, Lorrie,, Pitlor, Heidi,, Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968., Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941., Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961., Lardner, Ring, 1885-1933., Fitzgerald, F. Scott 1896-1940., Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980., Faulkner, William, 1897-1962., Hale, Nancy, 1908-1988., Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001., Cheever, John., Olsen, Tillie., Baldwin, James, 1924-1987., Roth, Philip., O'Connor, Flannery., Updike, John., Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988., Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-, Barthelme, Donald., Elkin, Stanley, 1930-1995., Paley, Grace., Baxter, Charles, 1947-, Simpson, Mona., Ford, Richard, 1944-, Stone, Robert, 1937-2015., Louie, David Wong, 1954-2018., Munro, Alice, 1931-, Gaitskill, Mary, 1954-, Kincaid, Jamaica., Sharma, Akhil, 1971-, Díaz, Junot, 1968-, Lahiri, Jhumpa., Packer, ZZ., Alexie, Sherman, 1966-, Jones, Edward P., Percy, Benjamin., Wolff, Tobias, 1945-, Englander, Nathan., Otsuka, Julie, 1962-, Saunders, George, 1958-, Groff, Lauren.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
Physical Description: xxi, 723 pages ; 24 cm.
Series: Best American series.
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