American Short Stories – Ultimate Collection

American Short Stories – Ultimate Collection
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Musaicum Books present the greatest American short stories in one volume: 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 Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (Mark Twain) The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (Mark Twain) To Build a Fire (Jack London) A Piece of Steak (Jack London) An Odyssey of the North (Jack London) The Fall of the House of Usher (Edgar Allan Poe) The Tell-Tale Heart (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) At the Mountains of Madness (H. P. Lovecraft) The Shadow over Innsmouth (H. P. Lovecraft) An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Ambrose Bierce) Chickamauga (Ambrose Bierce) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (F. Scott Fitzgerald) Bernice Bobs Her Hair (F. Scott Fitzgerald) The Turn of the Screw (Henry James) Daisy Miller – A Study (Henry James) Bartleby the Scrivener (Herman Melville) Benito Cereno (Herman Melville) Desiree's Baby (Kate Chopin) The Open Boat (Stephen Crane) The Luck of Roaring Camp (Bret Harte) A White Heron (Sarah Orne Jewett) Out of Season (Ernest Hemingway) The Revolt of 'Mother' (Mary Wilkins Freeman) The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman) Christmas Every Day (William Dean Howells) Ethan Frome (Edith Wharton) Paul's Case (Willa Cather) The Abbot's Ghost (Louisa May Alcott) The Wife of His Youth (Charles W. Chesnutt) Barn Burning (William Faulkner) The Lost Phoebe (Theodore Dreiser)

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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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O. Henry, H. P. Lovecraft, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, 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

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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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