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Short Stories You Never Heard Of (But Should Have)
Short Stories You Never Heard Of (But Should Have)
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Introduction
If you were to compile a list of one hundred of the most popular short stories by American authors, it is quite likely that not one in this collection would make your list. This doesn't mean that any of these stories are unworthy, but it does mean that they did not make the anthology cut for stories deemed acceptable for college or high school literature texts. And if you were to look into the choices made by textbook publishers over the last one hundred years, you would see the same stories in text after text. For Poe- The Cask of Amontillado. O. Henry – The Gift of the Magi. Jack London – To Build a Fire. Kate Chopin – The Story of an Hour. Twain – The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. And so it goes for author after author. A few stories become anthologized to death while the bulk gather dust on the shelves of anonymity.
It seems a bit unfair, especially considering how brilliant some of these less than famous works are. All the authors are well known here, but you are indeed well-read if you can recognize all these titles. So it is up to you to take a chance here. Read these at your leisure. Peruse one over your lunch break. Enjoy a short story instead of giving yourself over to Netflix or Showtime. Give these lesser known stories a chance to settle in your mind. You won't regret it.
You might find yourself compiling a very different list of your most popular stories.
Contents:
Introduction
Louisa May Alcott – Kitty's Class Day, Scarlet Stockings
Sherwood Anderson – I Want to Know Why, The Egg
Ambrose Bierce – A Horseman in the Sky, An Heiress from Redhorse
Willa Cather – The Affair at Grover Station, Tommy, the Unsentimental
Kate Chopin – A Lady of Bayou St. John, After the Winter
Stephen Crane – The Blue Hotel, The Snake
Susan Glaspell – The Anarchist, The Last Sixty Minutes
Bret Harte – A Widow of the Santa Ana Valley, How Santa Clause Came to Simpson
Nathaniel Hawthorne – Endicott and the Red Cross, Young Goodman Brown
Jack London – Flush of Gold, South of the Slot
Herman Melville – The Fiddler, The Happy Failure
O. Henry – According to Their Lights, Lord Oakhurst, Man about Town, The Cactus
Edgar Allan Poe – Hop-Frog, the Black Cat
Mark Twain – Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man, The Californian's Tale
Edith Wharton – The Other Two, The Reckoning
If you were to compile a list of one hundred of the most popular short stories by American authors, it is quite likely that not one in this collection would make your list. This doesn't mean that any of these stories are unworthy, but it does mean that they did not make the anthology cut for stories deemed acceptable for college or high school literature texts. And if you were to look into the choices made by textbook publishers over the last one hundred years, you would see the same stories in text after text. For Poe- The Cask of Amontillado. O. Henry – The Gift of the Magi. Jack London – To Build a Fire. Kate Chopin – The Story of an Hour. Twain – The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. And so it goes for author after author. A few stories become anthologized to death while the bulk gather dust on the shelves of anonymity.
It seems a bit unfair, especially considering how brilliant some of these less than famous works are. All the authors are well known here, but you are indeed well-read if you can recognize all these titles. So it is up to you to take a chance here. Read these at your leisure. Peruse one over your lunch break. Enjoy a short story instead of giving yourself over to Netflix or Showtime. Give these lesser known stories a chance to settle in your mind. You won't regret it.
You might find yourself compiling a very different list of your most popular stories.
Contents:
Introduction
Louisa May Alcott – Kitty's Class Day, Scarlet Stockings
Sherwood Anderson – I Want to Know Why, The Egg
Ambrose Bierce – A Horseman in the Sky, An Heiress from Redhorse
Willa Cather – The Affair at Grover Station, Tommy, the Unsentimental
Kate Chopin – A Lady of Bayou St. John, After the Winter
Stephen Crane – The Blue Hotel, The Snake
Susan Glaspell – The Anarchist, The Last Sixty Minutes
Bret Harte – A Widow of the Santa Ana Valley, How Santa Clause Came to Simpson
Nathaniel Hawthorne – Endicott and the Red Cross, Young Goodman Brown
Jack London – Flush of Gold, South of the Slot
Herman Melville – The Fiddler, The Happy Failure
O. Henry – According to Their Lights, Lord Oakhurst, Man about Town, The Cactus
Edgar Allan Poe – Hop-Frog, the Black Cat
Mark Twain – Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man, The Californian's Tale
Edith Wharton – The Other Two, The Reckoning
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