Great American Short Stories from Hawthorne to Hemingway

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Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The birthmark / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe -- Fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- The purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe -- Bartleby the Scrivener / Herman Melville -- The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County / Samuel Langhorne Clemens -- Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce -- My friend Bingham / Henry James -- The beast in the jungle / Henry James -- A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett -- The flight of Betsey Lane / Sarah Orne Jewett -- A new England nun / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- The revolt of "mother" / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- The wife of his youth / Charles W. Chesnutt -- The passing of Grandison / Charles W. Chesnutt -- The yellow wall-paper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The Gift of the magi / William Sydney Porter -- The ransom of Red Chief / William Sydney Porter -- The other two / Edith Wharton -- The open boat / Stephen Crane -- The blue hotel / Stephen Crane -- To build a fire / Jack London -- Hands / Sherwood Anderson -- The untold lie / Sherwood Anderson -- Paul's case / Willa Cather -- Bernice bobs her hair / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Winter dreams / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The end of something / Ernest Hemingway.