Publication: The Oxford Book of American Short Stories

Publication: The Oxford Book of American Short StoriesPublication Record # 405496
Editor: Joyce Carol Oates
Date: 2012-08-00
ISBN: 978-0-19-974439-8 [0-19-974439-4]
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Price:
$21.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD
Pages: 896
Format:
tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
Type: ANTHOLOGY
Cover: The Oxford Book of American Short Stories by Edward Hopper
Notes: Data from Amazon.com as of 2012-12-16/2022-09-25 Only known speculative fiction listed. Second edition Cover design: Brady McNamara Cover image: Summer Evening by Edward Hopper © Francis G. Mayer/ CORBIS

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Contents (view Concise Listing)

15 • Rip Van Winkle • (1819) • short story by Washington Irving
31 • Peter Rugg, the Missing Man • (1824) • novelette by William Austin
60 • The Wives of the Dead • non-genre • (1832) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
67 • The Tell-Tale Heart • (1843) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
73 • The Ghost in the Mill • (1870) • short story by Harriet Beecher Stowe
136 • A White Heron • (1886) • short story by Sarah Orne Jewett
191 • The Yellow Wallpaper • (1942) • short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (variant of The Yellow Wall-Paper 1892)
208 • A Journey • (1899) • short story by Edith Wharton
296 • The Rats in the Walls • (1924) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
464 • The Lottery • (1948) • short story by Shirley Jackson
475 • There Will Come Soft Rains • [The Martian Chronicles] • (1950) • short story by Ray Bradbury
707 • The Reach • (1981) • short story by Stephen King
775 • The Drowned Life • (2007) • novelette by Jeffrey Ford