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Great American Short Stories
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Bret Harte,Ernest Hemingway,Mark Twain,Charles Waddell Chesnutt,Henry James,Ambrose Bierce,Willa Cather,Stephen Crane,Sherwood Anderson,Nathaniel Hawthorne,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Paul Negri,Edgar Allan Poe,Sarah Orne Jewett,Herman Melville,Theodore Dreiser,Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman,Kate Chopin,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Jack London |
Contents:
Nathaniel Hawthorne: [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) (1835) --
Edgar Allan Poe: [The tell-tale heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) (1843) --
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Great American Short Stories
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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)
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Curses
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell,H. L. Gold,Robert W. Chambers,Robert Bloch,Martin H. Greenberg,Wilkie Collins,Avram Davidson,George Moore,Arthur C. Clarke,Charles G. Waugh,Theodore Cogswell,Sarah Orne Jewett,Robertson, Morgan,Isaac Asimov,Christopher Fahy,Seumas MacManus,Manly Wade Wellman,Talmage Powell,F. Antsy,Mario Martin Jr. |
Contents:
Introduction: Malevolence - essay by Isaac Asimov
The Curse - shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
Julia Cahill's Curse - shortstory by George Moore
The Red Swimmer - novelette by Robert Bl… |
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The country of the pointed firs and other stories
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Sarah Orne Jewett |
"In 1896 ... Sarah Orne Jewett published her finest work, The Country of the Pointed Firs, about a woman writer who retreats one summer to Dunnet Landing, a Maine seacoast town, to find seclusion to … |
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A country doctor
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Sarah Orne Jewett |
As the ward of the widowed physician Dr. Leslie, young Nan Prince becomes interested in medicine. But when she enters a medical college, she finds she must choose between marriage and a career as a d… |
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A white heron
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Sarah Orne Jewett |
A nine-year-old New England girl has to decide whether or not she will help the ornithologist who is searching for the rare white heron. |
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The country of the pointed firs
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Sarah Orne Jewett |
There was something about the coast town of Dunnet which made it seem more attractive than other maritime villages of eastern Maine. Perhaps it was the simple fact of acquaintance with that neighborh… |
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The Situation of the Story
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Ellen Wilbur,Ernest Hemingway,Katherine Anne Porter,Mark Twain,Virginia Woolf,Антон Павлович Чехов,David Herbert Lawrence,Edith Wharton,Charles Johnson,Henry James,William Faulkner,John Edgar Wideman,Gloria Naylor,Amy Tan,Raymond Carver,Willa Cather,Zora Neale Hurston,George P. Garrett,Toni Cade Bambara,Bernard Malamud,John Cheever,Truman Capote,William Goyen,Stephen Crane,Nathaniel Hawthorne,John Updike,Diana Young,Doris Lessing,Edgar Allan Poe,Sarah Orne Jewett,Herman Melville,Louise Erdrich,James Joyce,Eudora Welty,Joyce Carol Oates,Franz Kafka,Flannery O'Connor,Elizabeth Spencer,Lee K. Abbott,Ann Beattie,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Maria Cruz Viramontes de Marin,Shirley Jackson,Anna Lee Walters,Tillie Olsen,Conrad Aiken,Alice Munro,Bharati Mukherjee,Estela Portillo Trambley,Allen Barnett,REGINALD McKNlGHT |
FLANNERY O'CONNOR, The Comforts of Home 3
ANN BEATTIE, It's Just Another Day in Big Bear City, California 22
MARK TWAIN, The $30,000 Bequest 37
EUDORA WELTY, Why I Live at the P.O. 62
WILLIAM GOY… |
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