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The American Short Story: The Nineteenth Century: A Library Of America Boxed Set
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A Landmark Short Story Collection: More Than 100 Short Stories By 51 Different 19ThCentury Writers Redefine The Great American Literary Formincudes Both Literary MasterpiecesIncluding Classic Stories By Poe, Hawthorne, Twain, James, And WhartonAnd New Rediscoveriesas Much A NineteenthCentury American Invention As Baseball, The Cotton Gin, And The Steamboat, The Short Story Emerged Here With A Range Of Innovation And A Variety Of Styles And Subjects That Has Still Not Been Fully Appreciated. Diverse, WideRanging, And Unprecedented In Its Scope, This New TwoVolume Collection Gathers More Than 100 Stories By 51 Different Writers To Track The Development Of The American Short Story From Charles Brockden BrownS Fragments And Washington IrvingS Sketches To PoeS Gothic Tales Of Horror To Mark TwainS Humorous Stories To The Gilded Age Masterpieces Of Henry James And Edith Wharton.Among The Many Unexpected Writers In Collection Are: The Antebellum Black Writer And Physician James Mccune Smith, Whose Sketches In His Heads Of The Colored People Series Lampooned The Pseudoscientific Racism Of Phrenology ; Lucretia Hale, The Author Of The Feminist Fantasy The Queen Of The Red Chessman, Perhaps The Greatest OneHit Wonder Of The MidNineteenth Century; And FitzJames OBrien, The Author Of Such Unnerving Horror Stories As The Lost Room And What Was It?, Whose True Themes And Concerns TwentyFirst Century Readers, Accustomed To Reading Gay Fiction, Will Not Miss.From Gothic Horror To Frontier Folk Tales, Dark Mysteries And Interior Pyschological Dramas, This Unprecedented TwoVolume Story Anthology Captures A World Of Literary Expression And Experimentation That Will Surprise And Delight.
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