Author: Wallace and Mary Stegner
Publisher: Dell 3060
Year: 1964 Print: 5 Cover Price: $.75
Condition: Very Good Plus . Light wear and tanning
Genre:  Fiction/Classic
Pages: 511
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An outstanding collection chronicling the growth of the american short story from humorous legend to powerful contemporary fiction. 

Dell Laurel Edition no. 3060; issued as a mass market paperback, 1964. Edited by Wallace and Mary Stegner. 26 stories: “Rip Van Winkle” by Washington Irving / “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne / “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe / “Bartleby the Scrivener” by Herman Melville / “Baker's Bluejay Yarn” by Mark Twain / “Tennessee's Partner” by Bret Harte / “The Boarded Window” by Ambrose Bierce / “The Real Thing” by Henry James / “A Village Singer” by Mary Wilkins Freeman / “Mrs. Ripley's Trip” by Hamlin Garland / “A Municipal Report” by O. Henry / “Roman Fever” by Edith Wharton / “The Open Boat” by Stephen Crane / “Unlighted Lamps” by Sherwood Anderson / “The Man Who Saw Through Heaven” by Wilbur Daniel Steele / “Silent Snow, Secret Snow” by Conrad Aiken / “He” by Katherine Anne Porter / “The Catbird Seat” by James Thurber / “The Little Wife” by William March / “Wash” by William Faulkner / “The Snake” by John Steinbeck / “To the Mountains” by Paul Horgan / “Over the River and Through the Wood” by John O'Hara / “The Wind and the Snow of Winter” by Walter van Tilburg Clark / “Powerhouse” by Eudora Welty / “In Greenwich There are Many Gravelled Walks” by Hortense Calisher.