The Signet Classic Book of Southern Short Stories

by Dorothy Abbott

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.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451523954
• ISBN13: 9780451523952
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Signet Book
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 4.2" x 6.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Spatterings of Southern Life

The diverse plotlines presented in this collection of 34 short stories by Southern Writers it quite a treat. Having picked up the book for a Southern Literature class, I quickly realized how multifacted the southern living experience was. The stories cover a wide range of topics from family structure and interactions to chilling ghost tales to rowdy children and rebellious women. Well known authors like Edgar Allen Poe, Kate Chopin, and Zora Neale Hurston paint vivid pictures of the South and the types of people living not only days past, but in the contemporary South as well. Curl up in a blanket on your veranda and enjoy this taste of the south!