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Short Story Masterpieces

35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century

Author Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner
Edited by Robert Penn Warren, Albert Erskine
Mass Market Paperback
$9.99 US
Bantam Dell | Dell
On sale Mar 15, 1954 | 528 Pages | 9780440378648
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With works by Henry James, Stephen Crane, John Cheever, James Joyce--and many others. An outstanding collection of 35 American and British pieces of fiction from the first half of the 20th century.

PARTIAL TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Editor’s Note • “Impulse,” Conrad Aiken • “A Bottle of Milk for Mother,” Nelson Algren • “The Egg,” Sherwood Anderson • “Torch Song,” John Cheever • “Witch’s Money,” John Collier • “An Outpost of Progress,” Joseph Conrad • “The Third Prize,” A. E. Coppard • “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky,” Stephen Crane • “Open Winter,” H. L. Davis • “Barn Burning,” William Faulkner • “Winter Dreams,” F. Scott Fitzgerald • “Soldier’s Home,” Ernest Hemingway • “The Tree of Knowledge,” Henry James • “The Boarding House,” James Joyce • “Liberty Hall,” Ring Lardner • “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter,” D. H. Lawrence • “Virga Vay & Allan Cedar,” Sinclair Lewis • “Marriage A La Mode,” Katherine Mansfield • “The Outstation,” W. Somerset Maugham • “Cruel and Barbarous Treatment,” Mary McCarthy • “The Sojourner,” Carson McCullers • “The Open Window ,” ‘Saki’ (H. H. Munro) • “My Oedipus Complex,” Frank O’Connor • “Innocence,” Seán O’Faoláin • “The Nightingales Sing,” Elizabeth Parsons • “Flowering Judas,” Katherine Anne Porter • “The Valiant Woman,” J. F. Powers • “The Eighty-Yard Run,” Irwin Shaw • “A Country Love Story,” Jean Stafford • “Flight,” John Steinbeck • “A Red-Letter Day,” Elizabeth Taylor • “A Spinster’s Tale,” Peter Taylor • “You Could Look It Up,” James Thurber • “Why I Live at the P.O.,” Eudora Welty • “The Use of Force,” William Carlos Williams
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) was born in Illinois and began his career as a reporter before enlisting as an ambulance driver at the Italian front in World War I. Hemingway and his first (of four) wives lived in Paris in the 1920s, as part of the "Lost Generation" expatriate community, before moving to Key West, Florida, and later to Cuba. Known first for short stories, he sealed his literary reputation with his novels, including The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea. View titles by Ernest Hemingway
William Faulkner, one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897. He published his first book, The Marble Faun, in 1924, but it is as a literary chronicler of life in the Deep South—particularly in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, the setting for several of his novels—that he is most highly regarded. In such novels as The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, and Absalom, Absalom! he explored the full range of post–Civil War Southern life, focusing both on the personal histories of his characters and on the moral uncertainties of an increasingly dissolute society. In combining the use of symbolism with a stream-of-consciousness technique, he created a new approach to fiction writing. In 1949 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. William Faulkner died in Byhalia, Mississippi, on July 6, 1962. View titles by William Faulkner

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With works by Henry James, Stephen Crane, John Cheever, James Joyce--and many others. An outstanding collection of 35 American and British pieces of fiction from the first half of the 20th century.

PARTIAL TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Editor’s Note • “Impulse,” Conrad Aiken • “A Bottle of Milk for Mother,” Nelson Algren • “The Egg,” Sherwood Anderson • “Torch Song,” John Cheever • “Witch’s Money,” John Collier • “An Outpost of Progress,” Joseph Conrad • “The Third Prize,” A. E. Coppard • “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky,” Stephen Crane • “Open Winter,” H. L. Davis • “Barn Burning,” William Faulkner • “Winter Dreams,” F. Scott Fitzgerald • “Soldier’s Home,” Ernest Hemingway • “The Tree of Knowledge,” Henry James • “The Boarding House,” James Joyce • “Liberty Hall,” Ring Lardner • “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter,” D. H. Lawrence • “Virga Vay & Allan Cedar,” Sinclair Lewis • “Marriage A La Mode,” Katherine Mansfield • “The Outstation,” W. Somerset Maugham • “Cruel and Barbarous Treatment,” Mary McCarthy • “The Sojourner,” Carson McCullers • “The Open Window ,” ‘Saki’ (H. H. Munro) • “My Oedipus Complex,” Frank O’Connor • “Innocence,” Seán O’Faoláin • “The Nightingales Sing,” Elizabeth Parsons • “Flowering Judas,” Katherine Anne Porter • “The Valiant Woman,” J. F. Powers • “The Eighty-Yard Run,” Irwin Shaw • “A Country Love Story,” Jean Stafford • “Flight,” John Steinbeck • “A Red-Letter Day,” Elizabeth Taylor • “A Spinster’s Tale,” Peter Taylor • “You Could Look It Up,” James Thurber • “Why I Live at the P.O.,” Eudora Welty • “The Use of Force,” William Carlos Williams

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Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) was born in Illinois and began his career as a reporter before enlisting as an ambulance driver at the Italian front in World War I. Hemingway and his first (of four) wives lived in Paris in the 1920s, as part of the "Lost Generation" expatriate community, before moving to Key West, Florida, and later to Cuba. Known first for short stories, he sealed his literary reputation with his novels, including The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea. View titles by Ernest Hemingway
William Faulkner, one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897. He published his first book, The Marble Faun, in 1924, but it is as a literary chronicler of life in the Deep South—particularly in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, the setting for several of his novels—that he is most highly regarded. In such novels as The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, and Absalom, Absalom! he explored the full range of post–Civil War Southern life, focusing both on the personal histories of his characters and on the moral uncertainties of an increasingly dissolute society. In combining the use of symbolism with a stream-of-consciousness technique, he created a new approach to fiction writing. In 1949 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. William Faulkner died in Byhalia, Mississippi, on July 6, 1962. View titles by William Faulkner

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