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21 Great Stories

by Frank R. Stockton · 1969 · 352 pages

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- Eve in darkness by Kaatje Hurlbut

- There will come soft rains by Ray Bradbury

- Tobermory by Saki

- The two bottles of relish by Lord Dunsany

- Footfalls by Wilbur Daniel Steele

- Hook by Walter Van Tilburg Clark

- Wine on the desert by Max Brand

- The lady or the tiger? by Frank Stockton

- An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce

- The cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe

- The tell-tale heart by Edgar Allan Poe

- So much unfairness of things by C. D. B. Bryan

- The necklace by Guy de Maupassant

- The adventure of the speckled band by Arthur Conan Doyle

- To build a fire by Jack London

- Leiningen versus the ants by Carl Stephenson

- Eveline by James Joyce

- The secret life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber

- What stumped the bluejays by Mark Twain

- The pearl by John Steinbeck

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Setting
1960s
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 352 pages
Form
short stories

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