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Great American Short Stories [34 stories]

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Bret HarteRichard ConnellHeywood BrounErnest HemingwayReader's Digest AssociationMarc ConnellyMark TwainEdith WhartonHenry JamesO. HenryAmbrose BierceWilliam FaulknerJesse StuartJohn O'HaraJohn CheeverRay BradburyStephen CraneJohn SteinbeckStephen Vincent BenétJohn UpdikeF. Scott FitzgeraldEdgar Allan PoeHerman MelvilleEudora WeltyRichard WrightMary Eleanor Wilkins FreemanCharlotte Perkins GilmanPearl S. BuckJack LondonShirley Ann GrauRing LardnerShirley JacksonKay BoyleWalter Van Tilburg ClarkSusan GlaspellDamon RunyonReaders Digest Editors3 editions

Contains: Winter Dreams What Stumped the Bluejays To Build a Fire A Jury of Her Peers The Storm The Pioneer Hep-Cat The Furnished Room I Can’t Breathe The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber A New England Nun The Chrysanthemums [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) The Man Who Saw the Flood [Barn Burning](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20080279W/Barn_Burning) The Yellow Wall Paper Hook The Key The Shore Line at Sunset The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown Coroner’s Inquest Roman Fever The Outcasts of Poker Flat The Last Gas Station The Fifty-First Dragon Sir Edmund Orme The Daemon Lover The Blue Hotel You’ll Never Know, Eear, How Much I Love You The Beauty The Devil and Daniel Webster Winter Night [Bartleby the Scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W/Bartleby_the_Scrivener) Christmas is a Sad Season for the Poor The Boarded Window Jug of silver / Truman Capote -- Night club / Katharine Brush -- The lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser -- [The most dangerous game](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5278311W) / Richard Connell -- The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud -- If Grant had been drinking at Appomattox / James Thurber -- The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving -- The music of Erich Zann / H.P. Lovecraft -- Enoch and the gorilla / Flannery O'Connor -- The untold lie / Sherwood Anderson -- Horse thief / Erskine Caldwell -- The haunted boy / Carson McCullers -- The valiant woman / J.F. Powers -- The minister's wife / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The rockpile / James Baldwin -- The enchanted bluff / Willa Cather -- O how she laughed / Conrad Aiken.

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