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Contains:
Winter Dreams
What Stumped the Bluejays
To Build a Fire
A Jury of Her Peers
The Storm
The Pioneer Hep-Cat
The Furnished Room
I Can’t Breathe
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
A New England Nun
The Chrysanthemums
Tell-tale Heart
The Man Who Saw the Flood
Barn Burning
The Yellow Wall Paper
Hook
The Key
The Shore Line at Sunset
The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown
Coroner’s Inquest
Roman Fever
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
The Last Gas Station
The Fifty-First Dragon
Sir Edmund Orme
The Daemon Lover
The Blue Hotel
You’ll Never Know, Eear, How Much I Love You
The Beauty
The Devil and Daniel Webster
Winter Night
Bartleby the Scrivener
Christmas is a Sad Season for the Poor
The Boarded Window
Jug of silver / Truman Capote --
Night club / Katharine Brush --
The lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser --
The most dangerous game / Richard Connell --
The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud --
If Grant had been drinking at Appomattox / James Thurber --
The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving --
The music of Erich Zann / H.P. Lovecraft --
Enoch and the gorilla / Flannery O'Connor --
The untold lie / Sherwood Anderson --
Horse thief / Erskine Caldwell --
The haunted boy / Carson McCullers --
The valiant woman / J.F. Powers --
The minister's wife / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
The rockpile / James Baldwin --
The enchanted bluff / Willa Cather --
O how she laughed / Conrad Aiken.

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
640

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Cover of: Great American Short Stories
Great American Short Stories
1977, Reader's Digest Association
hardcover in English
Cover of: Great American Short Stories
Great American Short Stories
1977, Reader's Digest Association
Hardcover in English - 1st ed.

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Edition Notes

Published in
Pleasantville, N.Y., USA
Copyright Date
1977

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.01
Library of Congress
PZ1 .G7948, PS648.S5 .G7948

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
640 p. ;
Number of pages
640

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL4882194M
Internet Archive
greatamericansho00plea
LCCN
76010933
OCLC/WorldCat
1035353310
Library Thing
4831767
Goodreads
53317868

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