The Penguin Book of American Short Stories
byCochrane, James., J. Cochrane, James Cochrane, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, Henry James, O. Henry
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The legend od Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne [The fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) / Edgar Allan Poe [Bartleby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W) / 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 / Stephen Crane Neighbor Rosicky / Willa Cather To build a fire / Jack London Death in the woods / Sherwood Anderson Who dealt? / Ring Lardner Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter The rich boy / F. Scott Fitzgerald Delta autumn / William Faulkner The battler / Ernest Hemingway The jewbird / Bernard Malamud Children on their birthdays / Truman Capote Wife-wooing / John Updike
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First Published
1971
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423 pages
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6
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Penguin Books, Limited
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CHI, ENG
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Cochrane, James.
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J. Cochrane
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James Cochrane
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Washington Irving
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Herman Melville
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Mark Twain
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Bret Harte
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Ambrose Bierce
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Henry James
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