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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Classic American Short Stories [9 stories]	Mark Twain,O. Henry,Ambrose Bierce,Stephen Crane,Jack London	[An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863232W/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge) / Ambrose Bierce -- Veteran / Stephen Crane -- Notorious jumping frog of Calaveras C…	OL14910758W
More Classic American Short Stories	O. Henry,Ambrose Bierce,Stephen Crane,Kate Chopin,James Fenimore Cooper	A horseman in the sky / Ambrose Bierce -- Regret / Kate Chopin -- Eclipse / James Fenimore Cooper The bride comes to yellow sky / Stephen Crane -- The cop and the anthem ; The princess and the p…	OL14943670W
Classic Ghost Stories	O. Henry,Francis Marion Crawford,Rudyard Kipling,Charles Dickens,Edgar Allan Poe,Guy de Maupassant,Bram Stoker,Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu,E. F. Benson,Montague Rhodes James,Saki,Vincent O'Sullivan,P C Wren	Judge's house / Bram Stoker -- Upper berth / F. Marion Crawford -- Narrative of the Ghost of a hand / J. Sheridan Le Fanu -- To be taken with a grain of salt / Charles Dickens -- Tell-tale heart …	OL15062277W
The Last Leaf	O. Henry	A sick artist with no will to live feels she will die when the last leaf falls from the tree by her window--yet for some reason the leaf hangs on.	OL15252705W
The Raven and the Monkey's Paw	W. W. Jacobs,Edith Wharton,O. Henry,Ambrose Bierce,Wilkie Collins,Charles Dickens,Edgar Allan Poe,Saki	Poe: The Murders in the Rue Morgue [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) [Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibr…	OL15646130W
The United States in Literature	Bret Harte,Carl Sandburg,Ernest Hemingway,Day, Clarence,Mark Twain,Dorothy Parker,Henry David Thoreau,Washington Irving,James Thurber,O. Henry,Theodore Hornberger,Theresa Helburn,Ogden Nash,Jesse Stuart,Douglas Southall Freeman,Walt Whitman,Stephen Crane,Stephen Vincent Benét,Benjamin Franklin,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Eugene O'Neill,Edgar Allan Poe,Thornton Wilder,Paul Farmer,Walter Blair,Brad Schulberg,Robert C. Pooley	Contains: PART I: American Life Through Literature A. THE GROWTH OF A NATION 23 UNIT I: SETTLING THE SEABOARD 24 Captain Smith Among the Indians John Smith 25 America's First Great Lady Donal…	OL16036156W
Great American Short Stories	Bret Harte,Ernest Hemingway,Mark Twain,Washington Irving,Edith Wharton,Henry James,O. Henry,Ambrose Bierce,William Faulkner,Harriet Beecher Stowe,Willa Cather,Stephen Crane,John Steinbeck,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Edgar Allan Poe,Sarah Orne Jewett,Herman Melville,Flannery O'Connor,Jack London	Washington Irving -- The legend of sleepy hollow -- The spectre bridegroom -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W/Young_Goodman_Brown) [Rappaccin…	OL16045961W
Great Short Stories of the World	Максим Горький,Colette,Frank O'Connor,Max Aub,Henry Lawson,Albert Camus,Corrado Alvaro,Robert Benchley,H. G. Wells,Isak Dinesen,Ernest Hemingway,Nigel Balchin,Sholem Aleichem,Katherine Anne Porter,Santha Rama Rau,Rabindranath Tagore,Mark Twain,Dorothy Parker,Leo Kennedy,Joseph Conrad,Антон Павлович Чехов,Dorothy L. Sayers,Aldous Huxley,David Herbert Lawrence,Graham Greene,Nadine Gordimer,Oscar Wilde,James Thurber,Alberto Moravia,O. Henry,Rumer Godden,John O'Hara,Truman Capote,Stephen Crane,John Steinbeck,Gabrielle Roy,Unknown,Sally Benson,John Updike,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Doris Lessing,Wallace Stegner,Guy de Maupassat,James Joyce,Luigi Pirandello,Eudora Welty,William Somerset Maugham,Mikhail Zoshchenko,The Editors of The Reader's Digest,Hernando Tellez,Pearl S. Buck,Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes,Ring Lardner,Shirley Jackson,Montague Rhodes James,Paul Horgan,Saki,Thomas Head Raddall,Katherine Mansfield,Bertolt Brecht,Josh Gregory,Irwin Shaw,Marcel Aymé,Jean Stafford,Lilika Nakos,S. J. Perelman,Damon Runyon,Anatole France,Machado de Assis,Jessamyn West,Hjalmar Söderberg	The leader of the people / John Steinbeck Mr. Know-all / W. Somerset Maugham Vanka / Anton Chekhov The happy prince / Oscar Wilde The old demon / Pearl S. Buck The sailor-boy's tale / Isak …	OL16048288W
Uncertain Endings	Stanley Ellin,Owen Johnson,Cleveland Moffett,Stanley Ellin,Otto Penzler,Peter Godfrey,Mark Twain,Barry Perowne,Aldous Huxley,O. Henry,Laurie York Erskine,Ray Bradbury,Roald Dahl,Gerald Kersh,Jack Moffitt,Frank R. Stockton,Laurie York Erskine	A fine showcase for a rare and difficult form of the mystery story; fun to read and made more fun by Penzler's lively introduction. Contains: Unreasonable doubt -- Stanley Ellin A dilemma -- …	OL16068427W
Great American Short Stories [34 stories]	Bret Harte,Richard Connell,Heywood Broun,Ernest Hemingway,Marc Connelly,Mark Twain,Edith Wharton,Henry James,O. Henry,Ambrose Bierce,William Faulkner,Jesse Stuart,John O'Hara,John Cheever,Ray Bradbury,Stephen Crane,John Steinbeck,Stephen Vincent Benét,John Updike,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Edgar Allan Poe,Herman Melville,Eudora Welty,Richard Wright,Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman,The Editors of The Reader's Digest,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Pearl S. Buck,Jack London,Shirley Ann Grau,Ring Lardner,Shirley Jackson,Kay Boyle,Walter Van Tilburg Clark,Susan Glaspell,Damon Runyon,Readers Digest Editors	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 Macombe…	OL16481148W
The best American humorous short stories	Caroline M. Kirkland,George William Curtis,Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.,Bret Harte,Grace MacGowan Cooke,George Randolph Chester,Richard Malcolm Johnston,Mark Twain,Eliza Leslie,O. Henry,George Pope Morris,Wells Hastings,Alexander Jessup,Henry Cuyler Bunner,William James Lampton,Edgar Allan Poe,Edward Everett,Frank R. Stockton,Harry Stillwell Edwards	The Best American Humorous Short Stories features tales from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain and many other well known writers. From the editor:This volume does not aim to contain …	OL16733811W
Great Classic Mysteries II	Bret Harte,Jacques Futrelle,Arthur Conan Doyle,Mark Twain,Gilbert Keith Chesterton,Melville Davisson Post,O. Henry,Ambrose Bierce,Maurice Leblanc,Edgar Allan Poe,Kate Chopin,R. Austin Freeman,Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy,Anna Katharine Green	The oblong box / Edgar Allan Poe ; narrated by Mauro Hantman -- The stolen white elephant / Mark Twain ; narrated by Mauro Hantman -- An heiress from Redhorse / Ambrose Bierce ; narrated by Angela …	OL17415140W
The trimmed lamp, and other stories of the four million	O. Henry	O. Henry's short, simple stories are noted for their careful plotting, ironic coincidences, and surprise endings. Contents: The Trimmed Lamp; A Madison Square Arabian Night; The Rubaiyat of a Scotch …	OL181941W
The gift of the Magi and other stories	O. Henry	An illustrated collection of fourteen short stories reflecting various aspects of American life at the turn of the nineteenth century.	OL181943W
Waifs and Strays	O. Henry	Urban teens take center stage in a pair of edgy short story collections. Waifs and Strays presents 15 previously published works by Canadian fantasy writer Charles de Lint, including "May This Be You…	OL181946W
The Best of O. Henry	O. Henry	A collection of twenty-six short stories, all but one of which originally appeared in the "New York World"	OL181947W
Whirligigs	O. Henry	O. Henry's short, simple stories are noted for their careful plotting, ironic coincidences, and surprise endings. Contents: The World and the Door; The Theory and the Hound; The Hypotheses of Failure…	OL181950W
Cabbages and Kings	O. Henry	They will tell you in Anchuria, that President Miraflores, of that volatile republic, died by his own hand in the coast town of Coralio; that he had reached thus far in flight from the inconveniences…	OL181957W
Great humorous stories	Harry Secombe,Bret Harte,Barry Pain,Seán O'Faoláin,Basil Boothroyd,Iris Murdoch,P. G. Wodehouse,Geoffrey Willans,H. F. Ellis,George S. Kaufman,David Niven,Nathaniel Gubbins,Douglas Sutherland,Phyllis Eleanor Bentley,Mark Twain,Gilbert Keith Chesterton,Dorothy Parker,Oscar Wilde,James Thurber,John Verney,O. Henry,Jerome Klapka Jerome,Max Apple,John Wyndham,Burdette, Robert J.,Rudyard Kipling,Frederic Raphael,Douglas Adams,Peter Ustinov,Arnold Bennett,Gerald Malcolm Durrell,James Herriot,Mole, John,William Somerset Maugham,David Nobbs,Groucho Marx,Keith Waterhouse,Alasdair Gray,Bob Larbey,Ronald Searle,Rob Buckman,Sue Townsend,Paul Theroux,George Grossmith,Auberon Waugh,Arthur Marshall,Stephen Leacock,Ring Lardner,E. F. Benson,Neil Boyd,Fran Lebowitz,C. Northcote Parkinson,Saki,Weedon Grossmith,Giovannino Guareschi,Robert Robinson,Nancy Mitford,Joyce Grenfell,Art Buchwald,Damon Runyon,E. M. Delafield,A. C. Games,Jean Davis,Patrick Campbell	RONNIE CORBETT: Introduction P.G. WODEHOUSE: 'The Voice from the Past' RING LARDNER: Mr and Mrs Fix-It H.F. ELLIS: Lent Term 1939 The Man Faggott (from The Papers of A.J. Wentworth, BA) …	OL19302720W
Gift of the magi	O. Henry	A husband and wife sacrifice treasured possessions in order to buy eath other Christmas presents.	OL20872643W