Short Story Masterpieces by American Women Writers they take you to a

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

Reprint of the Pitman Publishing

It is probably the first novel in English that had a New York East Side immigrant as its hero

His account of the journey

114 illustrations

Short Story Masterpieces by American Women Writers they take you to aFourteen 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