The Penguin Book of American Short Stories

by James Cochrane

Other authors: Sherwood Anderson (Contributor), Ambrose Bierce (Contributor), Truman Capote (Contributor), Willa Cather (Contributor), Stephen Crane (Contributor) — 14 more, William Faulkner (Contributor), F. Scott Fitzgerald (Contributor), Bret Harte (Contributor), Nathaniel Hawthorne (Contributor), Ernest Hemingway (Contributor), O. Henry (Contributor), Washington Irving (Contributor), Henry James (Contributor), Ring Lardner (Contributor), Jack London (Contributor), Bernard Malamud (Contributor), Herman Melville (Contributor), Edgar Allan Poe (Contributor), Mark Twain (Contributor)

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A collection of twenty-one stories from America, a nation which has always been particularly at home with this form, and which has produced many of its masters. It includes stories by Poe, James and Hemingway, along with those ranging from Washington Irving to John Updike, via Ambrose Bierce, Willa Cather and Bernard Malamud.… (more)

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Legend of Sleepy Hollow/Washington Irving, Young Goodman Brown/Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fall of the House of Usher/Edgar Allan Poe, Bartleby/Herman Melville, Man the Corrupted Hadleyburg/Mark Twain, Outcasts of Poker Flat/Francis Bret Harte, One of the Missing/Ambrose Bierce, The Real Thing/Henry James, An Unfinished Story/O. Henry, Bride Comes to Yellow Sky/Stephen Crane, Neighbor Rosicky/Willa Cather, To Build a Fire/Jack London, Death in the Woods/Sherwood Anderson, Who Dealt?/Ring Lardner, Flowering Judas/Katherine Anne Porter, The Rich Boy/F. Scott Fitzgerald, Delta Autumn/William Faulkner, The Battler/Ernest Hemingway, The Jewbird/Bernard Malamud, Children on their Birthdays/Truman Capote, Wife-Wooing/John Updike

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
James Cochrane	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Anderson, Sherwood	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Bierce, Ambrose	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Capote, Truman	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Cather, Willa	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Crane, Stephen	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Faulkner, William	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Fitzgerald, F. Scott	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Harte, Bret	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Hawthorne, Nathaniel	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Hemingway, Ernest	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Henry, O.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Irving, Washington	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
James, Henry	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Lardner, Ring	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
London, Jack	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Malamud, Bernard	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Melville, Herman	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Poe, Edgar Allan	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Twain, Mark	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow [short story] by Washington Irving

Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Fall of the House of Usher [short story] by Edgar Allan Poe

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street by Herman Melville

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg [short story] by Mark Twain

One of the Missing. Deluxe edition in full leather binding. by Ambrose Bierce

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A collection of twenty-one stories from America, a nation which has always been particularly at home with this form, and which has produced many of its masters. It includes stories by Poe, James and Hemingway, along with those ranging from Washington Irving to John Updike, via Ambrose Bierce, Willa Cather and Bernard Malamud.

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