by James Cochrane · Penguin UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140029192
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«The Penguin Book of American Short Stories» is an anthology of short stories edited by James Cochrane (Penguin UK, paperback, 432 pages, in English).
Anthology of twenty-one stories from American literature, with tales by Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and John Updike. Includes pieces such as «The Fall of the House of Usher» and «To Build a Fire».
The volume was originally published in 1969 and also includes stories by Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ambrose Bierce, Willa Cather and Truman Capote.
Aimed at readers seeking an introduction to the American short story, from the nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth, in English.
