Great American Short Stories
Published in 1957, Great American Short Stories is a gothic fiction and demon fiction novel by Wallace Stegner, Mary Stegner and Washington Irving. The story is set in United States and New York, in the 1600s. Characters include Colonel Sutpen, Milly and Roderick Usher. It deals with burial vaults, Catalepsy, dragons and hermitages.
11 Open Library readers have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 21 editions.
At about 511 pages, most readers finish it in 9–10 hours.
Quick answers
Who wrote Great American Short Stories?
Great American Short Stories was written by Wallace Stegner, Mary Stegner and Washington Irving and first published in 1957.
What genre is Great American Short Stories?
It is usually shelved as Gothic Fiction, Demons & Devils, Horror and Dragon Fiction.
How long is Great American Short Stories?
The median edition has 511 pages, about 9–10 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.
What books are similar to Great American Short Stories?
Readers who like it often enjoy Literature--second Edition, Great American Short Stories from Hawthorne to Hemingway and The Rinehart Book of Short Stories.
Books like Great American Short Stories
Literature--second Edition
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Great American Short Stories from Hawthorne to Hemingway
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The Rinehart Book of Short Stories
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The Evil Image
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The Harbrace Anthology of Short Fiction -- Fourth Edition
Jon C. Stott, Raymond E. Jones
The Penguin Book of American Short Stories
Cochrane, James., J. Cochrane
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The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
James Edwin Miller, Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer
Fiction 100
James H. Pickering, Fiódor Dostoievski