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Twice-Told Tales
Twice-Told Tales is a short story collection first published in two volumes by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The stories had all been previously published in magazines and annuals, hence the name.
Contains:
The Gray Champion
Sunday At Home
The Wedding Knell
The Minister's Black Veil
The Maypole of Merry Mount
The Gentle Boy
Mr Higginbotham's Catastrophe
Little Annie's Ramble
Wakefield
A Rill…
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La Fille de Rappaccini et autres contes fantastiques
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Twice-Told Tales [1/2]
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Crucial Instances
Edith Wharton's classic 1901 short story collection. Included are: "The Duchess at Prayer," "The Angel at the Grave," "The Recovery," "Copy: A Dialogue," "The Rembrandt," "The Moving Finger," and "The Confessional."
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Fanshawe
Published anonymously at his own expense in 1828, Hawthorne's first novel is an engrossing apprentice work.
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The complete works of O. Henry [pseud.]
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The troll garden
"This collection of Willa Cather stories - her first book of fiction and the capstone of her early career - is as relevant today as at the time of its initial publication. As different and individually distinguished as the seven stories may be, they share as their subject the role and status of the artist in American society.
The passions, ambitions, and pretensions, the cant and the pathos of…
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The ruling passion
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true…
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The Four Million
The Four Million is the second published collection of short stories by O. Henry originally released in 1906. There are twenty five stories of various lengths including several of his best known works such as "The Gift of the Magi" and "The Cop and the Anthem". The book's title refers to the then population of New York City where many of the stories are set.
The stories include;
Tobin's Palm *…
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Tales of the Jazz Age
Published in 1922, the eleven Tales of the Jazz Age feature the flappers and lost young men of the period as well as a great variety of characters and scenes. Among them, the critically acclaimed novella "May Day" contrasts drunken debutantes with a mob of war veterans battling socialists in the streets, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", filmed with Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Tilda…
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Never Whistle at Night
Never Whistle at Night
Many Indigenous people believe that one should never whistle at night. This belief takes many forms: for instance, Native Hawaiians believe it summons the Hukai’po, the spirits of ancient warriors, and Native Mexicans say it calls Lechuza, a witch that can transform into an owl. But what all these legends hold in common is the certainty that whistling at night can cause evil spirits to appear—and…
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The Penguin Book of American Short Stories
The legend od Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving
Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne
The fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe
Bartleby / Herman Melville
The man that corrupted Hadleyburg / Mark Twain
The outcasts of Poker Flat / Francis Bret Harte
One of the missing / Ambrose Bierce
The real thing / Henry James
The unfinished story / O. Henry
The bride comes to Yellow Sky /…
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A Book of Short Stories
Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle.
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The minister's black veil. Ethan Brand.
Edgar Allan Poe: Fall of the House of Usher, the gold-bug.
Charles Dickens: The signalman.
Frank Stockton: The lady, or the tiger.
Thomas Hardy: The three strangers.
Robert Louis Stevenson: Will o' the mill, The Sire de Maletroit's door.
Sir James Matthew Barrie: The courting of…
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The women on the wall
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Great Short Stories
Tell-tale Heart / Edgar Allan Poe
Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne
Outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte
Open boat / Stephen Crane
All-gold canon / Jack London
Furnished room / O. Henry
Lost phoebe / Theodore Dreiser
Neighbor rosicky / Willa Cather
Sophistication / Sherwood Anderson
Now I lay me / Ernest Hemingway
By the waters of Babylon / Stephen Vincent Benet
Leader of the…
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Van Bibber and Others
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The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales
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Tales of Men and Ghosts
Tales of Men and Ghosts is a collection of ten Edith Wharton short stories: "The Bolted Door," "His Father's Son," "The Daunt Diana," "The Debt," "Full Circle," "The Legend," "The Eyes," "The Blond Beast," "Afterward," and "The Letters."
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