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Great Short Stories by American Women

3.9/5 ( ratings)

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 20th centuries. The earliest stories are Rebecca Harding Davis' naturalistic "Life in the Iron Mills" and Louisa May Alcott's semiautobiographical tale "Transcendental Wild Oats" . The most recent ones are Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat," an ironic 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.

Language: English

Pages: 208

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc.

Release: February 05, 1996

ISBN: 0486287769

ISBN 13: 9780486287768

Great Short Stories by American Women

3.9/5 ( ratings)

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 20th centuries. The earliest stories are Rebecca Harding Davis' naturalistic "Life in the Iron Mills" and Louisa May Alcott's semiautobiographical tale "Transcendental Wild Oats" . The most recent ones are Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat," an ironic 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.

Language: English

Pages: 208

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc.

Release: February 05, 1996

ISBN: 0486287769

ISBN 13: 9780486287768

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