A Book of Short Stories
by Stuart Pratt Sherman, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Frank R. Stockton, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, J. M. Barrie, O. Henry, Rudyard Kipling
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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 T'nowhead's Bell. O. Henry: Phœbe. Rudyard Kipling: The man who was.
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