Great American Short Stories [48 stories]

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Anthology contains: The legend of Sleepy Hollow -- Rip Van Winkle -- The spectre bridegroom -- Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini's daughter The fall of the House of Usher The gold bug -- Pit and the pendulum The cask of amontillad Captain Kidd's money -- Benito Cereno -- The lightning-rod man -- The diamond lens -- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County -- The £1,000,000 bank-note -- The man that corrupted Hadleyburg -- The luck of Roaring Camp -- The outcasts of Poker Flat -- Tennessee's partner -- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge a horseman in the sky -- The Damned Thing The turn of the screw -- The jolly corner -- The courting of Sister Wisby -- The Hiltons' holiday -- The love-philtre of Ikey Schoenstein -- The gift of the Magi -- Tobin's palm -- Springtime a la carte -- The furnished room -- The rembrandt -- The moving finger -- The recovery -- Maggie: a girl of the streets -- The open boat -- The upturned face -- The clemency of the court -- Lou, the prophet -- A night at Greenway Court -- The white silence -- The son of the wolf -- The men of forty-mile -- In a far country -- Babylon revisited -- A Rose for Emily Big two-hearted river -- Flight.