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The Penguin Book of American Short Stories

โœ Scribed by James Cochrane

Book ID
111035561
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Year
1982
Tongue
en-GB
Weight
330 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780141959665

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โœฆ Synopsis

Introducing twenty-one short stories from some of the best American writers over two hundred years of history.
'American literature and the short story might be said to have come of age at about the same time, and this, along with something in the bustling and energetic American temperament, might go some way towards explaining why the two go together as well as they do.'
Twenty-one short stories from some of the best American writers over the last two hundred years provide a mesmerizing, multi-faceted portrait of a country, a people and the unique literature produced by this most exuberant of nations.
Featuring short stories from classic American authors including Mark Twain, Katherine Anne Porter, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and many more.

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