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The Best American Short Stories of the Century (The Best American Series (TM).) - John Updike, Rosellen Brown, George Plimpton, Cynthia Ozick
The Best American Short Stories of the Century (The Best American Series (TM).)
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ISBN: 9780618013203 (0618013202)
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Edition language: English
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Classics, Literature, American, Classic Literature, Literary Fiction, Anthologies, Collections, Contemporary, Modern, Short Stories
Series: The Best American Short Stories
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4.0 The Best American Short Stories of the Century
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The title is a misnomer. Not that there aren't some wonderful stories here, but they were never really chosen because they're the best American short stories of the 20th century. Rather, these are Updike's 56 picks out of the 2,000 stories originally chosen in the 84 volumes of a yearly anthology pu...
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The Best American Short Stories of the Century - John Updike, Philip Roth, Bernard Malamud, Martha Gellhorn, Vladimir Nabokov, Gish Jen, Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver, Cynthia Ozick, Tim O'Brien, Harold Brodkey, Robert Penn Warren, Joyce Carol Oates, Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner, William Saroyan, Saul Bellow
The Best American Short Stories of the Century - John Updike, Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather, Jean Toomer
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