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    <title>American short stories</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Patrick, Walton R.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Current-Garcia, Eugene.</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>Scott, Foresman</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1981</dateIssued>
    <edition>4th ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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    <extent>720 p. ; 19 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Changing currents and maturing forms: 1860-1900. The  notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain - - The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte -- Editha /  William Dean Howells -- The coup de grace / Ambrose  Bierce -- "Europe" / Henry James -- The real thing /  Henry James -- The storm / Kate Chopin -- The New England  nun / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- The passing of Grandison  / Charles Chesnutt -- The return of a private / Hamlin  Garland -- The bride comes to Yellow Sky / Stephen Crane  -- The open boat / Stephen Crane.   </tableOfContents>
  <tableOfContents>New directions and the absurd: 1940 to the present.  Livvie / Eudora Welty -- A man in the house / Cyrus  Colter -- The swimmer / John cheever -- The girls in the  summer dresses / Irwin Shaw -- The magic barrel / Bernard  Malamud -- What you hear from 'em? / Peter Taylor -- Good  country people / Flannery O'Connor -- Life-story / John  Barth -- Margins / Donald Barthelme -- The brother /  Robert Coover -- A &amp; P / John Updike -- The sky is gray /  Ernest J. Gaines -- The conversions of the Jews / Phillip  Roth -- Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce  Carol Oates -- A gir's story / Toni Cade Bambara.   </tableOfContents>
  <tableOfContents>Romanticism and the beginnings: 1800-1868. Rip Van Winkle /   Washington Irving -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel   Hawthorne -- Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne  -  - The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe -- The tell-  tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- The big bear of Arkansas /   Thomas Bangs Thorpe -- Bartleby, the Scrivener / Herman   Melville.     </tableOfContents>
  <tableOfContents>Tradition, revolt, and experimentation: 1900-1940. A  Madison Square Arabian night / O. Henry -- Roman Fever /  Edith Wharton -- Paul's case / Willa Cather -- Death in  the woods / Sherwood Anderson -- The love nest / Ring  Lardner -- The Grave / Katherine Anne Porter -- The  catbird seat / James Thurber -- Babylon revisited / F.  Scott Fitzgerald -- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner - - Was / William Faulkner -- A clean, well-lighted place   / Ernest Hemingway -- Flight / John Steinbeck -- Thank  you, ma'm / Langston Hughes.   </tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">[edited] by Eugene Current-Garcia, Walton R. Patrick.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Short stories, American</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Social life and customs</topic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
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  <identifier type="isbn">0673155706 </identifier>
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