100 Years Of The Best American Short Stories

100 Years Of The Best American Short Stories

2015 • 723 pages

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Collects forty short stories published between 1915 and 2015, from writers that include Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, and Alice Munro that exemplify their era and stand the test of time.


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9 released books

The Best American Short Stories

The Best American Short Stories is a 9-book series first released in 2007 with contributions by Alice Munro, Lawrence Osborne, and Julie Otsuka.

The Best American Short Stories 2007
The Best American Short Stories 2011
The Best American Short Stories 2012
100 Years Of The Best American Short Stories
The Best American Short Stories 2015

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As expected in such an expansive collection, the stories were hit or miss for me. Interesting to read some of the history of short story writing in America along with each decade's stories. Fiction seems to be getting better and better if this collection is an accurate representation.

August 10, 2024