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The Signet Classic Book of American Short Stories
The Signet Classic Book of American Short Stories Author:Burton Raffel The best of American short fiction. Spanning over 100 years of literary history, here are 33 of the finest short stories — The specter bridegroom by Washington Irving -- — Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne -- — The gold bug by Edgar Allan Poe -- — Bartleby the scrivener by Herman Melville -- — Miss Asphyxia by Harriet Beecher Stowe -- — The I... more »liad of Sandy Bar by Bret Harte --
Who was she? by Bayard Taylor --
Grit by Rose Terry Cooke --
An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce --
The return of a private by Hamlin Garland --
A New England nun by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman --
The real thing by Henry James --
The yellow wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman --
The flight of Betsey Lane by Sarah O. Jewett --
La grande demoiselle by Grace Elizabeth King --
The war widow by Harold Frederic --
Madame CeÌlestin's divorce by Kate Chopin --
The blue hotel by Stephen Crane --
A journey by Edith Wharton --
The man that corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain --
All gold canyon by Jack London --
The rajah of Bungpore by F. Hopkinson Smith --
Nobody sick, nobody poor by Zona Gale --
One thousand dollars by O. Henry --
"Queer" by Sherwood Anderson --
Up in Michigan by Ernest Hemingway --
Great lady on a white horse by John Dos Passos --
The king of the cats by Stephen Vincent BeneÌt --
Neighbour Rosicky by Willa Cather --
Turnabout by William Faulkner --The evening's at seven by James Thurber --
The long way out by F. Scott Fitzgerald --
Ever fall in love with a midget? by William Saroyan« less