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Stories New and Old

by Hamilton Wright Mabie, William Austin, Charles Dickens, J Brown, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, J. H. Shorthouse, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, James Lane Allen, O. Wister · 1908

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General introduction: The short story, by H. W. Mabie—

Peter Ragg, the missing man, by W. Austin

Dr. Marigold's prescriptions, by C. Dickens

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Rab and his friends, by J. Brown

Ethan Brand, by N. Hawthorne

Pit and the Pendulum, by E. A. Poe

Will o the mill, by R. L. Stevenson

The Marquis Jeanne Hyacinth St. Palaye, by J. H. Shorthouse

Quite so, by T. R. Aldrich

King Solomon of Kentucky, by J. L. Allen

The game and the nation, by O. Wister

Genre
horrorhorrorMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1900s1900sMore like thisLess of thisToledoToledoMore like thisLess of this
Audience
childrens
Length
long · 451 pages
Form
short storiesshort storiesMore like thisLess of this

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