Major American Short Stories

Professor of English at Princeton University, A. Walton Litz has edited or co-edited over thirty textbooks, anthologies, and editions. He is a surrogate delagate for OUP NY.

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• The Search for Form: Irving, Hawthorne, Poe, Melville and James Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle; The Adventure of the German Student Nathaniel Hawthorne: Young Goodman Brown; Wakefield; Rappaccini's Daughter Ligeia; The Fall of the House of Usher; The Purloined Letter Herman Melville: Bartleby the Serivener Henry James: The Real Thing; The Jolly Corner Regionalism and Realism Mark Twain: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County; How To Tell a Story Bret Harte: The Outcasts of Poker Flat William Dean Howells: Editha Sarah Orne Jewett: The Courting of Sister Wisby Kate Chopin: Desiree's Baby Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper Neighbor Rosicky: Willa Cather A National Art Form Stephen Crane: The Open Boat; Stephen Crane's Own Story Sherwood Anderson: I Want To Know Why F. Scott Fitzgerald: Babylon Revisited Ernest Hemingway: Big Two-Hearted River Zora Neale Hurston: The Gilded Six-Bits William Faulkner: Red Leaves; That Evening Sun Katherine Anne Porter: Flowering Judas Eudora Welty: Petrified Man Robert Penn Warren: Blackberry Winter Richard Wright: The Man Who Was Almost a Man Saul Bellow: Looking for Mr. Green Flannery O'Connor: A Good Man Is Hard To Find Bernard Malamud: The Magic Barrel Peter Taylor: Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time James Baldwin: Sonny's Blues Philip Roth: Defender of the Faith John Updike: The Doctor's Wife John Cheever: The World of Apples The Short Story Today John Barth: Lost in the Funhouse Donald Barthelme: The Indian Uprising Robert Coover: The Magic Poker Grace Paley: The Long-Distance Runner Joyce Carol Oates: Daisy Robert Stone: Helping Raymond Carver: Errand Alice Walker: Everyday Use Leslie Marmon Silko: Storyteller Louise Erdrich: Snares Biographical and Bibliographical Notes The American Short Story: A General Bibliography