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Great American Short Stories

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Bret HarteErnest HemingwayMark TwainCharles Waddell ChesnuttHenry JamesAmbrose BierceWilla CatherStephen CraneSherwood AndersonNathaniel HawthorneF. Scott FitzgeraldPaul NegriEdgar Allan PoeSarah Orne JewettHerman MelvilleTheodore DreiserMary Eleanor Wilkins FreemanKate ChopinCharlotte Perkins GilmanJack London3 editions

Contents: Nathaniel Hawthorne: [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) (1835) -- Edgar Allan Poe: [The tell-tale heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) (1843) -- Herman Melville: [Bartleby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W) (1856) -- Bret Harte: The luck of Roaring Camp (1870) -- Stephen Crane: The bride comes to Yellow Sky (1878) -- Mark Twain: The private history of a campaign that failed (1885) -- Sarah Orne Jewett: A white heron (1886) -- Charles Waddell Chesnutt: The goophered grapevine (1887) -- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: A New England nun (1891) -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The yellow wallpaper (1892) -- Henry James: The real thing (1893) -- Kate Chopin: [A pair of silk stockings](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078930W) (1897) -- Jack London: To build a fire (1908) -- Ambrose Bierce: [An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W) (1909) -- Theodore Dreiser: The lost phoebe (1916) -- Willa Cather: Paul's case (1920) -- F. Scott Fitzgerald: Bernice bobs her hair (1920) -- Sherwood Anderson: The egg (1921) -- Ernest Hemingway: The killers (1927)

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