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American Short Stories – Best Books Boxed Set
Table of Contents
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (Mark Twain)
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (Mark Twain)
Table of Contents
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
To Build a Fire (Jack London)
A Piece of Steak (Jack London)
An Odyssey of the North (Jack London)
I
II
III
The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry)
The Ransom of Red Chief (O. Henry)
The Cop and the Anthem (O. Henry)
A Retrieved Reformation (O. Henry)
The Fall of the House of Usher (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Tell-Tale Heart (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Pit and the Pendulum (1842)
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Black Cat (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Birthmark (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Rappacini’s Daughter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Rip Van Winkle (Washington Irving)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Washington Irving)
The Call of Cthulhu (H. P. Lovecraft)
I. The Horror in Clay
II. The Tale of Inspector Legrasse
III. The Madness from the Sea
At the Mountains of Madness (H. P. Lovecraft)
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
The Shadow over Innsmouth (H. P. Lovecraft)
I
II
III
IV
V
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Ambrose Bierce)
I
II
III
Chickamauga (Ambrose Bierce)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
Bernice Bobs Her Hair (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
The Turn of the Screw (Henry James)
Prologue
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
XII
XIII
XIV
XV
XVI
XVII
XVIII
XIX
XX
XXI
XXII
XXIII
XXIV
Daisy Miller – A Study (Henry James)
Part I
Part II
Bartleby the Scrivener (Herman Melville)
Benito Cereno (Herman Melville)
Desiree’s Baby (Kate Chopin)
The Open Boat (Stephen Crane)
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
The Luck of Roaring Camp (Bret Harte)
A White Heron (Sarah Orne Jewett)
I
II
Out of Season (Ernest Hemingway)
The Revolt of ‘Mother’ (Mary Wilkins Freeman)
The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper, first published 1899 by Small & Maynard, Boston, MA
Christmas Every Day (William Dean Howells)
Ethan Frome (Edith Wharton)
Introduction
Ethan Frome
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
Paul’s Case (Willa Cather)
A Study in Temperament
The Abbot's Ghost (Louisa May Alcott)
Chapter I. Dramatis Personae
Chapter II. Byplay
Chapter III. Who Was It?
Chapter IV. Feeding the Peacocks
Chapter V. Under the Mistletoe
Chapter VI. Miracles
Chapter VII. A Ghostly Revel
Chapter VIII. Jasper
The Wife of His Youth (Charles W. Chesnutt)
I
II
III
Barn Burning (William Faulkner)
The Lost Phoebe (Theodore Dreiser)
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Mark Twain, Jack London, O. Henry, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, H. P. Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, Herman Melville, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Bret Harte, Sarah Orne Jewett, Ernest Hemingway, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, William Dean Howells, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Louisa May Alcott, Charles W. Chesnutt, William Faulkner, Theodore Dreiser
40+ Classics of American Literature
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Then the friends separated without a good-night, and dragged themselves home with the gait of mortally stricken men. At their homes their wives sprang up with an eager “Well?” – then saw the answer with their eyes and sank down sorrowing, without waiting for it to come in words. In both houses a discussion followed of a heated sort – a new thing; there had been discussions before, but not heated ones, not ungentle ones. The discussions tonight were a sort of seeming plagiarisms of each other. Mrs. Richards said:
“If you had only waited, Edward – if you had only stopped to think; but no, you must run straight to the printing-office and spread it all over the world.”
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