The Best American Short Stories of the Century - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395843685 ISBN 13: 9780395843680

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade), 1999

Synopsis

Selected by the award-winning author of the Rabbit novels, fifty-five of the most important pieces of short fiction of the twentieth century feature masterworks by Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eudora Welty, Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, and other notable writers. 75,000 first printing.

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Review:

"The short story - not to mention America and the twentieth century - at its best."

..."a thrillingly energized argument for the enduring vitality of big ideas in small packages."

.,."a thrillingly energized argument for the enduring vitality of big ideas in small packages."

"A treasure - a one-volume literary history of this country's immeasurable pains and near-infinite hopes." Boston Globe
"Finding wonderful stories that you don't already know is one of this collection's great pleasures... " The New York Times
"The short story - not to mention America and the twentieth century - at its best." The Wall Street Journal
..".a thrillingly energized argument for the enduring vitality of big ideas in small packages." Entertainment Weekly

"Finding wonderful stories that you don't already know is one of this collection's great pleasures... " The New York Times

..".a thrillingly energized argument for the enduring vitality of big ideas in small packages." Entertainment Weekly

Synopsis:

A collection of fifty-five important pieces of short fiction of the twentieth century features masterworks by Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eudora Welty, and other notable writers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0395843685
• ISBN 13: 9780395843680
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 768
• Editor: Updike John