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The Signet Classic Book of American Short Stories

Burton Raffel

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English
Signet
02 November 2004
The best of American short fictionSpanning over 100 years of literary history, here are 33 of the finest short stories by Washington Irving
* Nathaniel Hawthorne
* Edgar Allan Poe
* Herman Melville
* Harriet Beecher Stowe
* Bret Harte
* Bayard Taylor
* Rose Terry Cooke
* Ambrose Bierce
* Hamlin Garland
* Mary E. Wilkens Freeman
* Henry James
* Charlotte Perkins Gilman
* Sarah Orne Jewett
* Grace Elizabeth King
* Harold Frederic
* Kate Chopin
* Stephen Crane
* Edith Wharton
* Mark Twain
* Jack London
* F. Hopkinson Smith
* Zona Gale
* O. Henry
* Sherwood Anderson
* Ernest Hemingway
* John Dos Passos
* Stephen Vincent Benet
* Willa Cather
* William Faulkner
* James Thurber
* F. Scott Fitzgerald
* William Saroyan
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Imprint:   Signet
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   Annotated edition
Dimensions:   Height: 172mm,  Width: 105mm,  Spine: 38mm
Weight:   374g
ISBN:   9780451529633
ISBN 10:   0451529634
Pages:   688
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Burton Raffel has taught English, Classics, and Comparative Literature at universities in the United States, Israel, and Canada. His books include translations of Beowulf, Horace- Odes, Epodes, Epistles, Satires, The Complete Poetry and Prose of Chairil Anwar, From the Vietnamese, Ten Centuries of Poetry, The Complete Poetry of Osip Emilevich, Mandelstram (with Alla Burago), and Poems From the Old English and The Annotated Milton; several critical studies, Introduction to Poetry, How to Read a Poem, The Development of Modern Indonesian Poetry, and The Forked Tounge- A Study of the Translation Process; and Mia Poems, a volume of his own poetry. Mr. Raffel practiced law on Wall Street and taught in the Ford Foundation's English Language Teacher Training Project in Indonesia.

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