Great Short Stories by American Women

    Great Short Stories by American Women

    Edited by Candace Ward

    $8.00

    Publication Date: 5th February 1996

    Embracing a wide variety of subjects, this choice collection of 13 short stories represents the work of an elite group of American women writing in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The earliest stories are Rebecca Harding Davis' naturalistic "Life in the Iron Mills" (published in 1861 and predating Émile Zola's Germinal by almost 25 years) and Louisa May Alcott's semiautobiographical tale "Transcendental Wild Oats" (1873). The most recent ones are Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat," an ironic tale of a failed marriage, published in 1926, and "Sanctuary" (1930), Nella Larsen's gripping ... Read More
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    Embracing a wide variety of subjects, this choice collection of 13 short stories represents the work of an elite group of American women writing in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The earliest stories are Rebecca Harding Davis' naturalistic "Life in the Iron Mills" (published in 1861 and predating Émile Zola's Germinal by almost 25 years) and Louisa May Alcott's semiautobiographical tale "Transcendental Wild Oats" (1873). The most recent ones are Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat," an ironic tale of a failed marriage, published in 1926, and "Sanctuary" (1930), Nella Larsen's gripping ... Read More
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    Embracing a wide variety of subjects, this choice collection of 13 short stories represents the work of an elite group of American women writing in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The earliest stories are Rebecca Harding Davis' naturalistic "Life in the Iron Mills" (published in 1861 and predating Émile Zola's Germinal by almost 25 years) and Louisa May Alcott's semiautobiographical tale "Transcendental Wild Oats" (1873). The most recent ones are Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat," an ironic tale of a failed marriage, published in 1926, and "Sanctuary" (1930), Nella Larsen's gripping and controversial tale of contested loyalty.
    In between is a grand cavalcade of superbly crafted fiction by Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Djuna Barnes, Susan Glaspell and Edith Wharton. Brief biographies of each of the writers are included.
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    • Price: $8.00
    • Pages: 208
    • Publisher: Dover Publications
    • Imprint: Dover Publications
    • Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Short Stories
    • Publication Date: 5th February 1996
    • Trim Size: 5 x 8 in
    • ISBN: 9780486287768
    • Format: Paperback
    • Age: 14-99
    • BISACs:
      FICTION / World Literature / American / General
      FICTION / Contemporary Women
      FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors)
      SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
      FICTION / Classics
    Table of Contents
    Rebecca Harding Davis, "Life in the Iron-Mills"
    Louisa May Alcott, "Transcendental Wild Oats"
    Sarah Orne Jewett, "A White Heron"
    Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, "A New England Nun"
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wall-Paper"
    Kate Chopin, "The Storm"
    Edith Wharton, "The Angel at the Grave"
    Willa Cather, "Paul's Case"
    Alice Dunbar-Nelson, "The Stones of the Village"
    Susan Glaspell, "A Jury of Her Peers"
    Djuna Barnes, "Smoke"
    Zora Neale Hurston, "Sweat"
    Nella Larsen, "Sanctuary"
    Embracing a wide variety of subjects, this choice collection of 13 short stories represents the work of an elite group of American women writing in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The earliest stories are Rebecca Harding Davis' naturalistic "Life in the Iron Mills" (published in 1861 and predating Émile Zola's Germinal by almost 25 years) and Louisa May Alcott's semiautobiographical tale "Transcendental Wild Oats" (1873). The most recent ones are Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat," an ironic tale of a failed marriage, published in 1926, and "Sanctuary" (1930), Nella Larsen's gripping and controversial tale of contested loyalty.
    In between is a grand cavalcade of superbly crafted fiction by Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Djuna Barnes, Susan Glaspell and Edith Wharton. Brief biographies of each of the writers are included.
    • Price: $8.00
    • Pages: 208
    • Publisher: Dover Publications
    • Imprint: Dover Publications
    • Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Short Stories
    • Publication Date: 5th February 1996
    • Trim Size: 5 x 8 in
    • ISBN: 9780486287768
    • Format: Paperback
    • Age: 14-99
    • BISACs:
      FICTION / World Literature / American / General
      FICTION / Contemporary Women
      FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors)
      SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
      FICTION / Classics
    Rebecca Harding Davis, "Life in the Iron-Mills"
    Louisa May Alcott, "Transcendental Wild Oats"
    Sarah Orne Jewett, "A White Heron"
    Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, "A New England Nun"
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wall-Paper"
    Kate Chopin, "The Storm"
    Edith Wharton, "The Angel at the Grave"
    Willa Cather, "Paul's Case"
    Alice Dunbar-Nelson, "The Stones of the Village"
    Susan Glaspell, "A Jury of Her Peers"
    Djuna Barnes, "Smoke"
    Zora Neale Hurston, "Sweat"
    Nella Larsen, "Sanctuary"