The Signet Classic Book of Southern Short

Includes 33 stories of the American South from such literary luminaries as Edgar Allan Poe, Alice Walker, Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Eudora Welty, Truman Capote, Alice Childress, Flannery O'Connor, and many others.

Confessions of a Murderer (1829)

1

(9)

William Gilmore Simms

The Dance (1833)

10

(11)

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

A Tale of the Ragged Mountains (1844)

21

(12)

Edgar Allan Poe

A Marriage of Persuasion (1857)

33

(8)

Susan Petigru King

Jean-ah Poquelin (1875)

41

(21)

George Washington Cable

Felipa (1876)

62

(21)

Constance Fenimore Woolson

The Sheriff's Children (1889)

83

(18)

Charles W. Chesnutt

La Belle Zoraide (1894)

101

(7)

Kate Chopin

Tony's Wife (1899)

108

(7)

Alice Dunbar-Nelson

The Heart of It (late 1890s)

115

(17)

Sarah Barnwell Elliott

Dare's Gift (1917)

132

(34)

Ellen Glasgow

Drenched in Light (1924)

166

(9)

Zora Neale Hurston

Dry September (1930)

175

(13)

William Faulkner

Kneel to the Rising Sun (1935)

188

(24)

Erskine Caldwell

The Last Day in the Field (1935)

212

(10)

Caroline Gordon

When the Light Gets Green (1936)

222

(9)

Robert Penn Warren

Big Boy Leaves Home (1936)

231

(37)

Richard Wright

The Pelican's Shadow (1940)

268

(8)

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

A Tree • A Rock • A Cloud (1942)

276

(10)

Carson McCullers

Health Card (1944)

286

(11)

Frank Yerby

The Angel in the Alcove (1948)

297

(10)

Tennessee Williams

No Place for You, My Love (1952)

307

(20)

Eudora Welty

The New Order (1954)

327

(6)

Nancy Hale

A Christmas Memory (1956)

333

(13)

Truman Capote

Northerners Can Be So Smug (1956)

346

(5)

Alice Childress

First Dark (1959)

351

(20)

Elizabeth Spencer

On the Lake (1961)

371

(31)

Ellen Douglas

The Sky Is Gray (1963)

402

(28)

Ernest J. Gaines

Two Pilgrims (1963)

430

(14)

Peter Taylor

Revelation (1964)

444

(22)

Flannery O'Connor

Neighbors (1966)

466

(18)

Diane Oliver

Talk to the Music (1971)

484

(12)

Arna Bontemps

The Ugliest Pilgrim (1973)

496

(23)

Doris Betts

Everyday Use (1973)

519

Alice Walker

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The Signet Classic Book of Southern Short Stories

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