Short Story Masterpieces

By Albert (editors) Warren, Robert Penn and Erskine

Book Overview

Since its first printing in 1954, this outstanding anthology has been the book of choice by teachers, students, and lovers of short fiction. Surveying stories by British and American writers in the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B004QPU9LA
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Dell Publishing Company
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Short Stories

This is a wonderful book to take with you on an airplane or on your daily subway ride! It is exactly what I was looking for after being tired of the 500+ page books everyone is publishing these days which take up so much time in a busy life!

A word on these stories over fifty years after publication date

This mass- market collection of stories was published in 1954. It was thus an educational tool for many of us who wanted to know the 'story as a form'. It has some truly wonderful stories, Hemingway's 'Soldier's Home' Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' Joyce's 'The Boarding House' Sherwood Anderson's ' Egg', and one of my all - time favorite's Irwin Shaw's 'Eighty- Yard Run'. It is a very rich and rewarding collection. Had a similar anthology been published today it would include other names,certainly Salinger, Raymond Carver, and my all- time favorite short story- writer Isaac Bashevis Singer.