The Greatest American Short Stories. Эдгар Аллан По
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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
The Greatest American Short Stories
40+ Classics of American Literature
e-artnow, 2020
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EAN 4064066392338
Table of Contents
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (Mark Twain)
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (Mark Twain)
A Piece of Steak (Jack London)
An Odyssey of the North (Jack London)
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 (Edgar Allan Poe)
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)
At the Mountains of Madness (H. P. Lovecraft)
The Shadow over Innsmouth (H. P. Lovecraft)
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (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)
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)
The Abbot's Ghost (Louisa May Alcott)
The Wife of His Youth (Charles W. Chesnutt)
Barn Burning (William Faulkner)
The Lost Phoebe (Theodore Dreiser)
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
(Mark Twain)
In compliance with the request of a friend of mine, who wrote me from the East, I called on good-natured, garrulous old Simon Wheeler, and inquired after my friend's friend, Leonidas W. Smiley, as requested to do, and I hereunto append the result. I have a lurking suspicion that Leonidas W. Smiley is a myth; that my friend never knew such a personage; and that he only conjectured that, if I asked old Wheeler about him, it would remind him of his infamous Jim Smiley, and he would go to work