Great American Short Stories
by Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, William Faulkner, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Jack London, and John Steinbeck
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Anthology contains:
The legend of Sleepy Hollow --
Rip Van Winkle --
The spectre bridegroom --
Young Goodman Brown
Rappaccini's daughter
The fall of the House of Usher
The gold bug --
Pit and the pendulum
The cask of amontillad
Captain Kidd's money --
Benito Cereno --
The lightning-rod man --
The diamond lens --
The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County --
The £1,000,000 bank-note --
The man that corrupted Hadleyburg --
The luck of Roaring Camp --
The outcasts of Poker Flat --
Tennessee's partner --
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
a horseman in the sky --
The Damned Thing
The turn of the screw --
The jolly corner --
The courting of Sister Wisby --
The Hiltons' holiday --
The love-philtre of Ikey Schoenstein --
The gift of the Magi --
Tobin's palm --
Springtime a la carte --
The furnished room --
The rembrandt --
The moving finger --
The recovery --
Maggie: a girl of the streets --
The open boat --
The upturned face --
The clemency of the court --
Lou, the prophet --
A night at Greenway Court --
The white silence --
The son of the wolf --
The men of forty-mile --
In a far country --
Babylon revisited --
A Rose for Emily
Big two-hearted river --
Flight.
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19th century, 1861-1865, 1600s, Antebellum era, 1861-65, CarnivalShowing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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Great American Short Stories: Complete & Unabridged
1984, Longmeadow Press
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