Short Story Masterpieces by American Women Writers Reprint of the Pitman Publishing

Reprint of the Pitman Publishing

Gelfand at Moscow State University

Reprint of the Kluwer Academic Publishers

they take you to a twilight region of flesh and spirit — and into the darkest recesses of the human mind

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Short Story Masterpieces by American Women Writers Reprint of the Pitman PublishingFourteen short works of fiction by noteworthy American women authors offer entrancing tales of redemption, betrayal, tradition, and rebellion. Dating from the nineteenth to twenty first centuries, these narratives range in mood from "Heat," Joyce Carol Oates's chilling tale of murder, to "Why I Live at the P. O.," Eudora Welty's comic monologue in the Southern Gothic tradition. Other contributors include Flannery O'Connor, Kate Chopin, and Edna Ferber