Eight American Stories selected and edited for schools in the Longman Imprint edition.
Short Stories by Sherwood Anderson, James Baldwin, Stephen Minot, Flannery O'Connor, William saroyan, John Steinbeck, John Updike and Richard Wright. Includes photographs illustrating The American Scene, lead-in comment, Questions and Points for Discussion and Select Bibliography, and a map of the United States. Intended for British readers in the upper school.
Excerpt
Like us all, the heroes of these stories learn through experience. Sometimes this is painful and sometimes pleasurable. The experience, therefore, often has a broadening and invigorating effect, which helps the hero to mature as a person, and often to become accepted by his friends and relations. (p.177)
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