Twice-Told Tales
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To build a fire, version 1 / Jack London -- To build a fire, version 2 / Jack London -- An account of the tragic death of the Willey Family -- The ambitious guest / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The child-who-was-tired / Katherine Mansfield -- Sleepy / Anton Chekhov -- From "Tricks and Defeats of Sporting Genius" / Samuel Seabough -- The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras country / Mark Twain -- Repentance / Frank O'Connor -- First confession / Frank O'Connor -- The death in the forest / Sherwood Anderson -- Death in the woods / Sherwood Anderson -- The geranium / Flannery O'Connor -- Judgement / Flannery O'Connor -- Odour of chrysanthemums, version 1 / D.H. Lawrence -- Odour of chrysanthemums, version 3 / D.H. Lawrence -- Odour of chrysanthemums, version 2, the ending / D.H. Lawrence -- The jewelry / Guy de Maupassant -- Paste / Henry James -- Boule de Suif / Guy de Maupassant -- The heroine / Isak Dinesen -- [That evening sun](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20080863W) / William Faulkner -- The killers / Ernest Hemingway -- [An occurrence at Owl Creek bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W) / Ambrose Bierce -- The secert miracle / Jorge Luis Borges -- Miriam / Truman Capote -- A little companion / Angus Wilson -- The demon lover / Elizabeth Bown -- The daemon lover / Shirley Jackson -- The phantom lover, two excerpts -- Dry September / William Faulkner -- Going to meet the man / James Baldwin -- The basement room / Graham Greene -- Next door / Kurt Vonnegut -- [William Wilson](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16088822W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad -- The eyes / Edith Wharton -- Life isn't a short story / Conrad Aiken -- The potato elf / Vladimer Nabokov -- [A painful case](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5213767W/A_Painful_Case) / James Joyce -- Barbados / Paule Marshall -- Death of a travelling salesman / Eudora Welty -- Beggar my neighbor / Dan Jacobson -- Awakening / Isaac Babel -- [Young goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The judgement / Franz Kafka -- King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison -- Night-sea journey / John Barth.
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Frank O'Connor
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Gerard A. Barker
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Isak Dinesen
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Ernest Hemingway
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Mark Twain
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Jorge Luis Borges
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Joseph Conrad
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Антон Павлович Чехов
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D. H. Lawrence
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Kurt Vonnegut
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Edith Wharton
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Graham Greene
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Ambrose Bierce
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William Faulkner
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Truman Capote
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Sherwood Anderson
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Guy de Maupassant
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James Joyce
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Eudora Welty
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Ralph Ellison
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Elizabeth Bowne
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Flannery O'Connor
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Paule Marshall
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Angus Wilson
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James Baldwin
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Jack London
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John Barth
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Isaak Babel
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Vladimir Nabokov
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Shirley Jackson
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Katherine Mansfield
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Dan Jacobson
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Conrad Aiken
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Samuel Seabough
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