GREAT#SHORTSTORIES BY AMERICAN WOMEN Edited by Candace Ward Embracing a wide variety of subjects, this choice collection of 13 short stories represents the work of an elite group of American#women writing in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The earliest stories are Rebecca Harding Davis' naturalistic "Life in the Iron Mills" (published in 1861 and predating Emile Zola's Germinal by almost 25 years) and Louisa May Alcott's#semiautobiographical tale "Transcendental Wild Oats" (1873). The most recent ones are 'Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat," an ironic#tale of a failed#marriage, published in 1926, and "Sanctuary" (1930), Nella Larsen's gripping and controversial tale of contested loyalty. In between is a grand cavalcade of superbly crafted fiction by Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary E. Wilkins#Freeman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Djuna Barnes, Susan Glaspell and Edith#Wharton. Brief biographies of each of the writers are included. Original#Dover (1995) anthology of 13 unabridged stories reprinted from standard texts. Introductory Note. 208pp. 5% × 84. Paperbound.

ISBN: 9780486287768