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Classic American Short Stories. I
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Edith Wharton,Robert Penn Warren,William Faulkner,Willa Cather,Tom Wolfe,Stephen Vincent Benét,Conrad Aiken |
A journey / Edith Wharton --
Impulse / Conrad Aiken --
Only the dead know Brooklyn / Thomas Wolfe --
A Christian education / Robert Penn Warren --
[Barn burning](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2… |
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The ballad of William Sycamore, 1790-1871
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Stephen Vincent Benét |
In this narrative verse a frontiersman relates his love of pioneer life that drove him westward just ahead of the fences that closed off the land. |
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The United States in Literature
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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… |
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Great American Short Stories [34 stories]
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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… |
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The Devil and Daniel Webster
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Dan Totheroh,Stephen Vincent Benét |
Jabez Stone is a hard-working farmer trying to make an honest living, but a streak of bad luck tempts him to do the unthinkable: bargain with the devil himself. In exchange for seven years of good fo… |
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The devil and Daniel Webster
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Stephen Vincent Benét |
Having promised his soul to the Devil in exchange for good fortune, Jabez Stone asks the talented lawyer Daniel Webster to get him out of the bargain. |
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The Rinehart Book of Short Stories
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C.L. CLINE,Joseph Conrad,Clarence Lee Cline,Антон Павлович Чехов,David Herbert Lawrence,James Thurber,William Faulkner,Rudyard Kipling,Stephen Crane,Sherwood Anderson,John Steinbeck,Robert Louis Stevenson,Stephen Vincent Benét,C. L. Cline,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Edgar Allan Poe,Guy de Maupassant,James Joyce,Eudora Welty,William Somerset Maugham,Katherine Mansfield |
[The fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) / Edgar Allan Poe
[Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mademoiselle Fifi / G… |
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