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Signet Classic Book of American Short Stories

Burton Raffel, Professor Burton Raffel, Professor Burton Raffel, Nathaniel Hawthorne · 2004

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Anthology contains: The specter bridegroom / Washington Irving -- [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The gold bug / Edgar Allan Poe -- [Bartleby the scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W) / Herman Melville -- Miss Asphyxia / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- The Iliad of Sandy Bar / Bret Harte -- Who was she? / Bayard Taylor -- Grit / Rose Terry Cooke -- [Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge) / Ambrose Bierce -- The return of a private / Hamlin Garland -- A New England nun / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- The real thing / Henry James -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The flight of Betsey Lane / Sarah O. Jewett -- La grande demoiselle / Grace Elizabeth King -- The war widow / Harold Frederic -- Madame Célestin's divorce / Kate Chopin -- The blue hotel / Stephen Crane -- A journey / Edith Wharton -- The man that corrupted Hadleyburg / Mark Twain -- All gold canyon / Jack London -- The rajah of Bungpore / F. Hopkinson Smith -- Nobody sick, nobody poor / Zona Gale -- One thousand dollars / O. Henry -- "Queer" / Sherwood Anderson -- Up in Michigan / Ernest Hemingway -- Great lady on a white horse / John Dos Passos -- The king of the cats / Stephen Vincent Benét -- Neighbour Rosicky / Willa Cather -- Turnabout / William Faulkner -- The evening's at seven / James Thurber -- The long way out / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Ever fall in love with a midget? / William Saroyan.

Book details

Year
2004
Language
English
Publisher
Signet Classics
Editions
5
Pages
688
ISBN
9780451529633

Data source: Wikidata

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