The great modern American stories

Contains: A reminiscent introduction / William Dean Howells -- My double; and how he undid me / Edward Everett Hale -- Circumstance / Harriet Prescott Spofford -- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain -- A passionate pilgrim / Henry James -- Mlle. Olympe Zabriski / T.B. Aldrich -- A prodigal in Tahiti / Charles Warren Stoddard -- The outcasts of Poker Flat / Francis Bret Harte -- The Christmas wreck / Frank Stockton -- The mission of Jane / Edith Wharton -- The courting of Sister Wisby / Sarah Orne Jewett -- The revolt of mother / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- Told in the poorhouse / Alice Brown -- [An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge) / Ambrose Bierce -- The return of a private / Hamlin Garland -- Striking an average / Henry B. Fuller -- Effie Wittlesy / George Ade. The lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser -- A failure / Edith Wyatt -- The yellow wall paper / Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman -- The little room / Madelene Yale Wynne -- Aunt Sanna Terry / Landon R. Dashiell -- The lotus eaters / Virginia Tracy -- Jean-Ah Poquelin / G.W. Cable -- Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, and the Tar Baby / Joel Chandler Harris -- Biographical notes and bibliography (p. 419-432).

Year

1972

Language

English

Publisher

MSS Information Corp

Editions

6

Pages

432

ISBN

9780842280778

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