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40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology

by · 2000

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Gathering forty important short stories in a portable and economical format, the second edition includes even more of the fiction instructors want to teach and more of the help student readers need.

Genre
historical fiction
Setting
college
Audience
adult
Length
long · 546 pages
Form
short stories

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