Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century

Since its first printing in 1954, this outstanding anthology has been the book of choice by teachers, students, and lovers of short fiction. Surveying stories by British and American writers in the first half of the twentieth century, editors Robert Penn Warren and Albert Erskine selected stories that broke new ground and challenged the imagination with their style, subject matter, or tone: the unforgettable, enduring works that shaped the literature of our time.

A truly exceptional collection of great stories, including:

The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane

The Horse Dealer's Daughter by D. H. Lawrence

Barn Burning by William Faulkner

The Sojourner by Carson McCullers

The Open Window by Saki

Flowering Judas by Katherine Anne Porter

The Boarding House by James Joyce

Soldier's Home by Ernest Hemingway

The Tree of Knowledge by Henry James

Why I Live at the P.O. by Eudora Welty

... and twenty-five more of the century's best stories!

• Author
• Robert Penn Warren, Albert Erskine, Sinclair Lewis, Katherine Mansfield, Conrad Aiken, W. Somerset Maugham, Mary McCarthy, Carson McCullers, Saki, Frank O'Connor, Seán Ó Faoláin, Elizabeth Parsons, H.L. Davis, Katherine Anne Porter, J.F. Powers, Irwin Shaw, Nelson Algren, Jean Stafford, John Steinbeck, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Taylor, James Thurber, Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, William Carlos Williams, Sherwood Anderson, John Cheever, John Collier, Joseph Conrad, A.E. Coppard, Stephen Crane, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Henry James, James Joyce, Ring Lardner, D.H. Lawrence

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 528

• Publisher
• Dell

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780440378648

• Genres
• fiction, classics, literature, anthologies, contemporary

• Release date
• 1954