Greatest Short Stories [2/6] -- American

by Stephen Crane, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Crane, De Forest, Hayes, Hawthorne, Stockton, Poe, Bierce, Harte, Aldrich, Ferbe · 1940

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EXPERIMENT IN MrsEEY •

Stephen Crane

THE BRIGADE COMMANDER

J. W. De Forest

THE DENVER EXPRESS

A. A. Hayes

THE AMBITIOUs GUEST

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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MY TERMINAL MORAINE

Frank R. Stockton

THE GOLD .

Edgar Allan Poe

Damned Thing

Ambrose Bicrce

THE LUCK OF ROARING CAMP

Bret Harte

MARJORIE DAW •

Thomas Bailey Aidrich

THEY BROUGHT THEIR WOMEN

Edna Ferber

BIG BLONDE •

Dorothy Parker

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Setting
1940s1940sMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 381 pages
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