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Great American Short Stories [48 stories]

  • Ambrose Bierce,
  • Edgar Allan Poe,
  • William Faulkner,
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne,
  • John Steinbeck,
  • Herman Melville,
  • Washington Irving,
  • Edith Wharton,
  • Jack London,
  • Mark Twain

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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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  • short stories
  • horror tales
  • horror
  • inquests
  • coroners
  • mountain lions
  • History
  • Fiction
  • United States Civil War
  • Classic Literature
  • hanging
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About the authors

  • Ambrose Bierce

    1842 - 1914?

    3.96

    139 ratings · 1041 works

  • Edgar Allan Poe

    19 January 1809 - 7 October 1849

    4.16

    430 ratings · 4050 works

  • William Faulkner

    25 September 1897 - 6 July 1962

    3.79

    101 ratings · 884 works

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne

    4 July 1804 - 19 May 1864

    3.63

    240 ratings · 1923 works

  • John Steinbeck

    27 February 1902 - 20 December 1968

    3.97

    665 ratings · 289 works

  • Herman Melville

Editions

  • Edition cover

    Longmeadow Press

    1985

  • Edition cover

    Longmeadow Press

    1984

  • Confederacy
  • Union
  • Satanism
  • Devil
  • open_syllabus_project
  • short story
  • Puritans
  • catechism
  • tradition
  • change
  • death
  • allegory
  • nonlinear narrative
  • gentleman's agreements
  • recluses
  • Juvenile audience
  • civil war
  • American Civil War
  • Confederate States of America
  • American fiction
  • American Horror tales
  • American literature
  • American Short stories
  • Children's fiction
  • fear
  • Horror stories
  • pendulums
  • Spanish Inquisition
  • Crime
  • Detective and mystery stories
  • Juvenile fiction
  • Revenge
  • Social life and customs
  • Manners and customs
  • burial vaults
  • catalepsy
  • dragons
  • gothic fiction
  • hermitages
  • heroic romances
  • hysteria
  • knights
  • maces
  • psychogenic death
  • tarns
  • 1 August 1819 - 28 September 1891

    3.88

    250 ratings · 2416 works

  • Washington Irving

    3 April 1783 - 28 November 1859

    4.11

    65 ratings · 1786 works

  • Edith Wharton

    24 January 1862 - 11 August 1937

    3.74

    144 ratings · 1933 works

  • Jack London

    12 January 1876 - 22 November 1916

    3.96

    320 ratings · 9377 works

  • Mark Twain

    30 November 1835 - 21 April 1910

    3.90

    646 ratings · 7213 works