{"product_id":"the-new-penguin-book-of-american-short-stories-from-washington-irving-to-lydia-davis","title":"The New Penguin Book of American Short Stories, from Washington Irving to Lydia Davis","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe short story is one of the most varied and exciting genres in American literature. This collection brings together many of its finest examples from the early nineteenth century to the present. It contains a richly diverse cast of characters, including convicts, artists, farm labourers, slaves, soldiers and salesmen, witches and ghosts, families and lovers. Their stories are told by some of America's most celebrated writers (Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edith Wharton, Raymond Carver) and a few, like Fanny Fern or Charles W. Chestnutt, who may be less familiar. The collection offers a stimulating combination of acknowledged classics, including Mark Twain's hilarious 'Jim Smiley's Jumping Frog' and Edgar Allan Poe's chilling 'The Tell-Tale Heart', and some remarkable pieces that deserve a wider audience, such as Ernest Hemingway's story of miscommunication, 'Out of Season', or Lorrie Moore's tale of modern love and wit, 'Starving Again'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKasia Boddy's introduction traces the history of the American short story and explores the changes and continuities in its forms and preoccupations. This edition also contains a chronology, explanatory and biographical notes and suggestions for further reading. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWashington Irving - The Little Man in Black (1807)\u003cbr\u003eNathaniel Hawthorne - Young Goodman Brown (1835)\u003cbr\u003eEdgar Allan Poe - The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)\u003cbr\u003eFanny Fern - Aunt Hetty on Matrimony (1851)\u003cbr\u003eMark Twain - Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog (1865)\u003cbr\u003eJoel Chandler Harris - The Tar Baby Story (1880)\u003cbr\u003eMary Wilkins Freeman - Two Friends (1887)\u003cbr\u003eCharles W. Chesnutt - The Wife of his Youth (1898)\u003cbr\u003eHenry James - The Real Right Thing (1899)\u003cbr\u003eStephen Crane - An Episode of War (1899)\u003cbr\u003eO. Henry - Hearts and Hands (1903)\u003cbr\u003eSherwood Anderson - The Untold Lie (1917)\u003cbr\u003eErnest HemingwayOut of Season (1923)\u003cbr\u003eEdith Wharton - Atrophy (1927)\u003cbr\u003eDorothy Parker - New York to Detroit (1928)\u003cbr\u003eEudora Welty - The Whistle (1938)\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Faulkner - Barn Burning (1939)\u003cbr\u003eF. Scott Fitzgerald - The Lost Decade (1939)\u003cbr\u003eZora Neale Hurston - Now You Cookin' with Gas (1942)\u003cbr\u003eBernard Malamud - The First Seven Years (1950)\u003cbr\u003eFlannery O'Connor - A Late Encounter with the Enemy (1953)\u003cbr\u003eJohn Updike - Sunday Teasing (1956)\u003cbr\u003eJohn Cheever - Reunion (1962)\u003cbr\u003eGrace Paley - Wants (1971)\u003cbr\u003eAlice Walker - The Flowers (1973)\u003cbr\u003eDonald Barthelme - I Bought a Little City (1974)\u003cbr\u003eRaymond Carver - Collectors (1975)\u003cbr\u003eRichard Ford - Communist (1985)\u003cbr\u003eLorrie Moore - Starving Again (1990)\u003cbr\u003eJhumpa Lahiri - The Third and Final Continent (1999)\u003cbr\u003eLydia Davis - The Caterpillar (2006)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Buchserien.de","offers":[{"title":"Neuware","offer_id":53843191890258,"sku":"9780141194424","price":14.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/7002\/3593\/files\/unnamed_cb39f861-c22f-40ca-a852-472192a4d469.jpg?v=1782455911","url":"https:\/\/www.buchserien.de\/products\/the-new-penguin-book-of-american-short-stories-from-washington-irving-to-lydia-davis","provider":"Buchserien.de","version":"1.0","type":"link"}