The Signet Classic Book of American Short Stories

by Burton Raffel (Editor)

Overview

The best of American short fiction

Spanning over 100 years of literary history, here are 33 of the finest short stories by Washington Irving
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Herman Melville
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Bret Harte
• Bayard Taylor
• Rose Terry Cooke
• Ambrose Bierce
• Hamlin Garland
• Mary E. Wilkens Freeman
• Henry James
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Sarah Orne Jewett
• Grace Elizabeth King
• Harold Frederic
• Kate Chopin
• Stephen Crane
• Edith Wharton
• Mark Twain
• Jack London
• F. Hopkinson Smith
• Zona Gale
• O. Henry
• Sherwood Anderson
• Ernest Hemingway
• John Dos Passos
• Stephen Vincent Benet
• Willa Cather
• William Faulkner
• James Thurber
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• William Saroyan

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780451529633
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	11/28/2004
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	688
Sales rank:	233,605
Product dimensions:	4.25(w) x 6.90(h) x 1.25(d)
Age Range:	18 - 17 Years

About the Author

Burton Raffel has taught English, Classics, and Comparative Literature at universities in the United States, Israel, and Canada. His books include translations of Beowulf, Horace: Odes, Epodes, Epistles, Satires, The Complete Poetry and Prose of Chairil Anwar, From the Vietnamese, Ten Centuries of Poetry, The Complete Poetry of Osip Emilevich, Mandelstram (with Alla Burago), and Poems From the Old English and The Annotated Milton; several critical studies, Introduction to Poetry, How to Read a Poem, The Development of Modern Indonesian Poetry, and The Forked Tounge: A Study of the Translation Process; and Mia Poems, a volume of his own poetry. Mr. Raffel practiced law on Wall Street and taught in the Ford Foundation’s English Language Teacher Training Project in Indonesia.