Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century

By Albert (editors) Warren, Robert Penn and Erskine

Book Overview

Since its first printing in 1954, this outstanding anthology has been the book of choice by teachers, students, and lovers of short fiction. Surveying stories by British and American writers in the first half of the twentieth century, editors Robert Penn Warren and Albert Erskine selected stories that broke new ground and challenged the imagination with their style, subject matter, or tone: the unforgettable, enduring works that shaped the literature of our time.

A truly exceptional collection of great stories, including:

The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane
The Horse Dealer's Daughter by D. H. Lawrence
Barn Burning by William Faulkner
The Sojourner by Carson McCullers
The Open Window by Saki
Flowering Judas by Katherine Anne Porter
The Boarding House by James Joyce
Soldier's Home by Ernest Hemingway
The Tree of Knowledge by Henry James
Why I Live at the P.O. by Eudora Welty

. . . and twenty-five more of the century's best stories

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0440378648
• ISBN13: 9780440378648
• Release Date: March 1954
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

Short Stories

This is a wonderful book to take with you on an airplane or on your daily subway ride! It is exactly what I was looking for after being tired of the 500+ page books everyone is publishing these days which take up so much time in a busy life!

A word on these stories over fifty years after publication date

This mass- market collection of stories was published in 1954. It was thus an educational tool for many of us who wanted to know the 'story as a form'. It has some truly wonderful stories, Hemingway's 'Soldier's Home' Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' Joyce's 'The Boarding House' Sherwood Anderson's ' Egg', and one of my all - time favorite's Irwin Shaw's 'Eighty- Yard Run'. It is a very rich and rewarding collection. Had a similar anthology been published today it would include other names,certainly Salinger, Raymond Carver, and my all- time favorite short story- writer Isaac Bashevis Singer.