{"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'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTable of contents\u003cbr\u003e\nWashington Irving - The Little Man in Black (1807)\u003cbr\u003e\nNathaniel Hawthorne - Young Goodman Brown (1835)\u003cbr\u003e\nEdgar Allan Poe - The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)\u003cbr\u003e\nFanny Fern - Aunt Hetty on Matrimony (1851)\u003cbr\u003e\nMark Twain - Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog (1865)\u003cbr\u003e\nJoel Chandler Harris - The Tar Baby Story (1880)\u003cbr\u003e\nMary Wilkins Freeman - Two Friends (1887)\u003cbr\u003e\nCharles W. Chesnutt - The Wife of his Youth (1898)\u003cbr\u003e\nHenry James - The Real Right Thing (1899)\u003cbr\u003e\nStephen Crane - An Episode of War (1899)\u003cbr\u003e\nO. Henry - Hearts and Hands (1903)\u003cbr\u003e\nSherwood Anderson - The Untold Lie (1917)\u003cbr\u003e\nErnest HemingwayOut of Season (1923)\u003cbr\u003e\nEdith Wharton - Atrophy (1927)\u003cbr\u003e\nDorothy Parker - New York to Detroit (1928)\u003cbr\u003e\nEudora Welty - The Whistle (1938)\u003cbr\u003e\nWilliam Faulkner - Barn Burning (1939)\u003cbr\u003e\nF. Scott Fitzgerald - The Lost Decade (1939)\u003cbr\u003e\nZora Neale Hurston - Now You Cookin' with Gas (1942)\u003cbr\u003e\nBernard Malamud - The First Seven Years (1950)\u003cbr\u003e\nFlannery O'Connor - A Late Encounter with the Enemy (1953)\u003cbr\u003e\nJohn Updike - Sunday Teasing (1956)\u003cbr\u003e\nJohn Cheever - Reunion (1962)\u003cbr\u003e\nGrace Paley - Wants (1971)\u003cbr\u003e\nAlice Walker - The Flowers (1973)\u003cbr\u003e\nDonald Barthelme - I Bought a Little City (1974)\u003cbr\u003e\nRaymond Carver - Collectors (1975)\u003cbr\u003e\nRichard Ford - Communist (1985)\u003cbr\u003e\nLorrie Moore - Starving Again (1990)\u003cbr\u003e\nJhumpa Lahiri - The Third and Final Continent (1999)\u003cbr\u003e\nLydia Davis - The Caterpillar (2006)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45637353111731,"sku":"9780141194424","price":559.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/61DdN4bCCRL.jpg?v=1783076909","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/the-new-penguin-book-of-american-short-stories-from-washington-irving-to-lydia-davis","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}