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Stories of the Old South / edited by Ben Forkner and Patrick Samway.

Title
Stories of the Old South / edited by Ben Forkner and Patrick Samway.
Publication
New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking, 1989.

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  • Forkner, Ben
  • Samway, Patrick H.
Description
xxvi, 514 p.; 21 cm.
Summary
Mining the same terrain as in their previous collection, Stories of the Modern South, Forkner and Samway turn their attention to an earlier era. Most of the stories in this collection were written in the 19th century.
Subject
  • Short stories, American > Southern States
  • Southern States > Fiction
Genre/Form
Fiction
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Two gentlemen of Kentucky / James Lane Allen -- A summer tragedy / Arna Wendell Bontempos -- Jean-ah Poquelin / George Washington Cable -- The web of circumstance / Charles Waddell Chesnutt -- Athénaïse : a story of a temperament / Kate Chopin -- The "harnt" that walks Chilhowee / Charles Egbert Craddock (Mary Noailles Murfree) -- A day at Chee-Ha ; The last day at Chee-Ha / William Elliott -- Mountain victory / William Faulkner -- Jordan's end / Ellen Glasgow -- Mrs. Yardley's quilting / George Washington Harris -- Free Joe and the rest of the world / Joel Chandler Harris -- A municipal report / O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) -- The captain attends a camp-meeting / Johnson Jones Hooper -- The gilded six-bits / Zora Neale Hurston -- A legend of Maryland / John Pendleton Kennedy -- The little convent girl / Grace King -- The horse-swap / Augustus Baldwin Longstreet -- Mister McGregor / Andrew Nelson Lytle -- Marse Chan : a tale of old Virginia / Thomas Nelson Page -- The gold-bug / Edgar Allen Poe -- The old order / Katherine Anne Porter -- The haunted palace / Elizabeth Madox Roberts -- How Sharp Snaffles got his capital and wife / William Gilmore Simms -- The indefatigable bear-hunter / Madison Tensas (Henry Clay Lewis) -- The big bear of Arkansas / Thomas Bangs Thorpe -- Blood-burning moon / Jean Toomer -- The private history of a campaign that failed / Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) -- First love / Eudora Welty -- The bell remembered / Thomas Wolfe -- Silt / Richard Wright.
ISBN
0670830402
LCCN
^^^90178465^
OCLC
22206941
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library