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My kinsman: Major Mollineux / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- [Black cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- Benito Cereno / Herman Melville -- Baker's bluejay yarn / Mark Twain -- The coup de grâce / Ambrose Bierce -- The beast in the jungle / Henry James -- The return of a private / Hamlin Garland -- Roman fever / Edith Wharton -- The open boat / Stephen Crane -- The heathen / Jack London -- I want to know why / Sherwood Anderson -- A day's work / Katharine Anne Porter -- Dry September / William Faulkner -- The short happy life of Francis Macomber / Ernest Hemingway.
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First Published
1965
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398 pages
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6
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Oxford University Press
Language
ENG
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Douglas Grant
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Herman Melville
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Mark Twain
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Ambrose Bierce
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Henry James
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Hamlin Garland
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Edith Wharton
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Stephen Crane
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Jack London
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Sherwood Anderson
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