An anthology of famous American stories / edited by Angus Burrell and Bennett Cerf.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Bedside book of famous American stories
Modern Library giants ; G77.
Main Author: Burrell, Angus
Other Authors: Cerf, Bennett, 1898-1971 (Editor)
Language:English
Published: New York : Modern Library, [1953]
Series:Modern Library giants ; G77.
Subjects:
United States > Social life and customs > Fiction.
Short stories, American.
Genre:
Fiction.
Physical Description:1,340 pages ; 21 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The legend of sleepy hollow ; Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving
  • The great stone face ; Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The murders in the Rue Morgue ; The pit and the pendulum ; The purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe
  • Billy Budd, foretopman / Herman Melville
  • The man without a country / Edward Everett Hale
  • The diamond lens / Fitz-James O'Brien
  • The lady, or the tiger? / Frank R. Stockton
  • The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County ;The man that corrupted Hadleybury / Mark Twain
  • Marjorie Daw / Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  • Editha / William Dean Howells
  • The outcasts of Poker Flat / Francis Bret Harte
  • An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge ; The boarded window /Ambrose Bierce
  • The real thing ; The author of Beltraffio / Henry James
  • Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, and the tar baby / Joel Chandler Harris
  • The courting of sister Wisby / Sarah Orne Jewitt
  • The boy who drew cats / Lafcadio Hearn
  • The pearls of Loreto / Gertrude Atherton
  • The return of a Private / Hamlin Garland
  • A New England nun / Mary E. Wilkins
  • The mission of Jane / Edith Wharton
  • The furnished room ; A blackjack bargainer ; A municipal report / O. Henry
  • The bar sinister / Richard Harding Davis
  • Effie Whittlesy / George Ade
  • "Little gentlemen" / Booth Tarkington
  • A deal in wheat / Frank Norris
  • The open boat / Stephen Crane
  • The lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser
  • Big Dan Reilly / Harvey O'Higgins
  • The good Anna / Gertrude Stein
  • Paul's case / Willa Cather
  • To build a fire / Jack London
  • I'm a fool ; I want to know why / Sherwood Anderson
  • The great pancake record / Owen Johnson
  • Porcelain cups / James Branch Cabell
  • Wild oranges / Joseph Hergesheimer
  • A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell
  • The afternoon of a faun / Edna Ferber
  • Some like them cold ; The golden honeymoon / Ring Lardner
  • The man who saw through heaven / Wilbur Daniel Steele
  • Tact / Thomas Beer
  • Silent snow, secret snow / Conrad Aiken
  • Big blonde / Dorothy Parker
  • The arrow / Christopher Morley
  • A cycle of Manhattan / Thyra Samter Winslow
  • María Concepción / Katherine Anne Porter
  • The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber
  • The rich boy / F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The body of an American / John Dos Passos-- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner
  • The killers ; The gambler, the nun, and the radio / Ernest Hemingway
  • The red pony / John Steinbeck
  • A portrait of Bascom Hawke / Thomas Wolfe
  • Night club / Katharine Brush
  • Kneel to the rising sun / Erskine Caldwell
  • Do you like it here? / John O'Hara
  • The daring young man on the flying trapeze / William Saroyan
  • The hitch-hikers / Eudora Welty
  • The portable phonograph / Walter Van Tilburg Clark
  • Act of faith / Irwin Shaw
  • My Christmas carol / Budd Schulberg
  • Pretty mouth and green my eyes / J.D. Salinger.