The Best American Short Stories, 1939
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Author | : Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-07-22 |
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ISBN | : 9781022891005 |
This collection of short stories represents some of the best American literature of the early 20th century. From well-known authors like Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald to lesser-known but equally talented writers, these stories explore the complexities of human relationships, society, and the human experience in general. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 872 |
Release | : 2017-11-22 |
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ISBN | : 9780331669824 |
Excerpt from 50 Best American Short Stories, 1915-1939 Well, here are the living stories of the past twenty-five year Suppose you watch them grow. If you are a story-writer, th will be one of your best lessons. Perhaps the simplest lesson th these stories will teach you is that America has made one dis covery. It has learned to surprise the mood on the face of the In next door and to transfer it innocently to paper so that it tells u something we need to know about ourselves. That is what writin is for, and in no other country is it being done quite so well a present. Bear this in mind as you read these stories, and also bea in mind the fact that good American writers know now that short story, like life, can seldom be shocked into a sudden sur prise ending. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : David C. Gardner |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013-03 |
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ISBN | : 9780781269360 |
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Author | : Edward Joseph O'Brien |
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Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : American fiction |
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Total Pages | : 950 |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : Short stories, American |
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Author | : Michael J. Collins |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2023-04-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1009292854 |
This Companion offers students and scholars a comprehensive introduction to the development and the diversity of the American short story as a literary form from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day. Rather than define what the short story is as a genre, or defend its importance in comparison with the novel, this Companion seeks to understand what the short story does – how it moves through national space, how it is always related to other genres and media, and how its inherent mobility responds to the literary marketplace and resonates with key critical themes in contemporary literary studies. The chapters offer authoritative introductions and reinterpretations of a literary form that has re-emerged as a major force in the twenty-first-century public sphere dominated by the Internet.
Author | : Julie Brown |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2013-05-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1134822227 |
How do different ethnic groups approach the short story form? Do different groups develop culture-related themes? Do oral traditions within a particular culture shape the way in which written stories are told? Why does "the community" loom so large in ethnic stories? How do such traditional forms as African American slave narratives or the Chinese talk-story shape the modern short story? Which writers of color should be added to the canon? Why have some minority writers been ignored for such a long time? How does a person of color write for white publishers, editors, and readers? Each essay in this collection of original studies addresses these questions and other related concerns. It is common knowledge that most scholarly work on the short story has been on white writers: This collection is the first work to specifically focus on short story practice by ethnic minorities in America, ranging from African Americans to Native Americans, Chinese Americans to Hispanic Americans. The number of women writers discussed will be of particular interest to women studies and genre studies researchers, and the collections will be of vital interest to scholars working in American literature, narrative theory, and multicultural studies.
Author | : Carolyn J. Brown |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2012-07-18 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 162846707X |
Mississippi author Eudora Welty, the first living writer to be published in the Library of America series, mentored many of today's greatest fiction writers and is a fascinating woman, having lived the majority of the twentieth century (1909–2001). Her life reflects a century of change and is closely entwined with many events that mark our recent history. This biography follows this twentieth-century path while telling Welty's story, beginning with her parents and their important influence on her reading and writing life. The chapters that follow focus on her education and her most important teachers; her life during the Depression and how her career, just getting started, is interrupted by World War II; and how she shows independence and courage through her writing during the turbulent civil rights period of the 1950s and 1960s. After years of caregiving and the deaths of all her immediate family members, Welty persevered and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for The Optimist's Daughter. Her popularity soared in the 1980s after she delivered the three William E. Massey Lectures to standing-room-only crowds at Harvard, and the lectures were later published as One Writer's Beginnings and became a New York Times bestseller. This biography intends to introduce readers to one of the most significant women writers of the past century, a prolific author who transcends her Mississippi roots and has written short stories, novels, and nonfiction that will endure for all time.
Author | : Bill V Mullen |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2024-04-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0252098013 |
The Communist International's Popular Front campaign of the 1930s brought to the fore ideas that resonated in Chicago's African American community. Indeed, the Popular Front not only connected to the black experience of the era, but outlasted its Communist Party affiliation to serve as both model and inspiration for a postwar cultural insurrection led by African Americans. With a new preface Bill V. Mullen updates his dynamic reappraisal of a critical moment in American cultural history. Mullen's study includes reassessments of the politics of Richard Wright's critical reputation and a provocative reading of class struggle in Gwendolyn Brooks' A Street in Bronzeville. He also takes an in-depth look at the institutions that comprised Chicago's black popular front: the Chicago Defender, the period's leading black newspaper; Negro Story, the first magazine devoted to publishing short stories by and about African Americans; and the WPA-sponsored South Side Community Art Center.