The new Penguin book of American short stories : from Washington Irving to Lydia Davis
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The new Penguin book of American short stories : from Washington Irving to Lydia Davis
（Penguin classics, . Penguin literature）
Penguin, 2011
- : pbk
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Chronology: p. [ix]-xix
Bibliography: p. [xxxvii]-xxxviii
Contents of Works
- The little man in black / by Launcelot Langstaff, Fsq. [i.e. Esq.] (Washington Irving)
- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The tell-tale heart / Edger Allan Poe
- Aunt Hetty on matrimony / Fanny Fern
- Jim Smiley and his jumping frog / Mark Twain
- The wonderful Tar-Baby story / Joel Chandler Harris
- Two friends / Mary Wilkins Freeman
- The wife of his youth / Charles W. Chesnutt
- The real right thing / Henry James
- An episode of war / Stephen Crane
- Hearts and hands / O. Henry
- The untold lie / Sherwood Anderson
- Out of season / Ernest Hemingway
- Atrophy / Edith Wharton
- New York to Detroit / Dorothy Parker
- The whistle / Eudora Welty
- Barn burning / William Faulkner
- The lost decade / F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Now you cookin' with gas / Zora Neale Hurston
- The first seven years / Bernard Malamud
- A late encounter with the enemy / Flannery O'Connor
- Sunday teasing / John Updike
- Reunion / John Cheever
- Wants / Grace Paley
- The flowers / Alice Walker
- I bought a little city / Donald Barthelme
- Collectors / Raymond Carver
- Communist / Richard Ford
- Starving again / Lorrie Moore
- The third and final continent / Jhumpa Lahiri
- The caterpillar / Lydia Davis
