Short Story Masterpieces 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First [Paperback]

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 first half of the twentieth century, editors Robert Penn Warren and Albert Erskine selected stories that broke new ground and challenged the imagination with their style, subject matter, or tone: the unforgettable, enduring works that shaped the literature of our time.

A truly exceptional collection of great stories, including:

The Bride Comes to Yellow Skyby Stephen Crane
The Horse Dealer’s Daughterby D. H. Lawrence
Barn Burning by William Faulkner
The Sojournerby Carson McCullers
The Open Window by Saki
Flowering Judasby Katherine Anne Porter
The Boarding House by James Joyce
Soldier’s Home by Ernest Hemingway
The Tree of Knowledge by Henry James
Why I Live at the P.O.by Eudora Welty

. . . and twenty-five more of the century’s best stories!Robert Penn Warrentaught English at Yale University and was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and one for poetry, and of the National Book Award for poetry. He was the author, with Cleanth Brooks, ofUnderstanding Fiction, and of the novelsAll the King’s Men, World Enough and Time, Band of Angels,andFlood, as well as many other works of fiction, poetry, and literary criticism. He died in 1989.

Albert Erskinewas a vice president and executive editor at Random House in New York. He was also on the staff ofThe Southern Reviewand was associated with the Louisiana State University Press. He died in 1993.US