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1978 edition. Language. English. Series. The Best American Short Stories. The Best American Short Stories yearly anthology is a part of The Best American Series published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Since 1915, the BASS anthology has striven to contain the best short stories by some of the best-known writers in contemporary American literature.
ISBN. 9781328465825 (hardback) Preceded by. The Best American Short Stories 2018. Followed by. The Best American Short Stories 2020. The Best American Short Stories 2019 is a volume in the annual Best American Short Stories anthology. It was edited by the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, and guest editor and Pulitzer Prize winner, Anthony Doerr. [1]
Publication date. June 26, 1948. " The Lottery " is a short story by Shirley Jackson that was first published in The New Yorker on June 26, 1948. [a] The story describes a fictional small American community that observes an annual tradition known as "the lottery", which is intended to ensure a good harvest and purge the town of bad omens.
Dance Me Outside (short story collection) Dancing After Hours. Dare to Be Scared. The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (short story collection) The Dark-Thirty. Darkness (short story collection) Dead Man Blues. A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West. Death in the Woods.
Subcategories. This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 11 total. 1800s short stories (1 C, 1 P) 1810s short stories (6 C) 1820s short stories (8 C, 1 P) 1830s short stories (10 C, 1 P) 1840s short stories (10 C) 1850s short stories (10 C, 1 P) 1860s short stories (10 C)
The short story is a crafted form in its own right. Short stories make use of plot, resonance and other dynamic components as in a novel, but typically to a lesser degree. While the short story is largely distinct from the novel or novella/short novel, authors generally draw from a common pool of literary techniques. [citation needed]
Subcategories. This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 11 total. 1920 short stories (1 C, 30 P) 1921 short stories (1 C, 20 P) 1922 short stories (1 C, 36 P) 1923 short stories (1 C, 53 P) 1924 short stories (1 C, 43 P) 1925 short stories (1 C, 34 P) 1926 short stories (1 C, 31 P)
82 = The Moons of Jupiter – 1982. 86 = The Progress of Love – 1986. 90 = Friend of My Youth – 1990. 94 = Open Secrets – 1994. 98 = The Love of a Good Woman. 01 = Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage – 2001. 04 = Runaway – 2004. 06 = The View from Castle Rock – 2006. 09 = Too Much Happiness – 2009.