Fifty Great American Short Stories

THE ADVENTURE OF THE GERMAN STUDENT.
Washington Irving
YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN. Nathaniel Hawthorne
MS. FOUND IN A BOTTLE. Edgar Allan Роe
THE FIDDLER. Herman Melville
WHAT WAS IT? Fitz-James O'Brien
LUCK. Mark Twain
THE OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT. Francis Bret Harte
THE DAMNED THING. Ambrose Bierce
THE TWO FACES. Henry James
A NEW ENGLAND NUN. Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
THE COURTING OF SISTER WISBY. Sarah Orne Jewitt
THE DILETTANTE. Edith Wharton
MASTERS OF ARTS. O. Henry
EFFIE WHITTLESY. George Ade
MR. DOOLEY ON THE POPULARITY OF FIREMEN. Finley
Peter Dunne
THE BRIDE COMES TO YELLOW SKY. Stephen Crane
A DEAD ISSUE. Charles M. Flandrau
THE LOST PHOEBE. Theodore Dreiser
FATHER IS FIRM WITH HIS AILMENTS. Clarence Day
DEATH IN THE WOODS. Sherwood Anderson
TO BUILD A FIRE. Jack London
THE USE OF FORCE. William Carlos Williams
OLD FOLKS' CHRISTMAS. Ring W Lardner
SILENT SNOW, SECRET SNOW. Conrad Aiken
BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON. Stephen Vincent Benet
SOLDIERS OF THE REPUBLIC. Dorothy Parker
MR. PREBLE GETS RID OF HIS WIFE. James Thurber
CLUNEY MC FARRAR'S HARDTACK. John McNulty
THE DARKNESS OF THE NIGHT. Robert M. Coates
THE OLD PEOPLE. William Faulkner
GRAPES FOR MONSIEUR CAPE. Ludwig Bemelmans
A MAN OF THE WORLD. Ernest Hemingway
THE HOUR OF LETDOWN. E. B. White
THE RESTING PLACE. Oliver La Farge
THE TOUCH OF NUTMEG MAKES IT. John Collier
THE HARNESS. John Steinbeck
FRIEND OF THE FAMILY. Kay Boyle
THE RUMOR. Erskine Caldwell
THERE WAS A YOUNG LADY OF PERTH. William Saroyan
THE DOWNFALL OF FASCISM IN BLACK ANKLE
COUNTY. Joseph Mitchell
THE FRENCH SCARECROW. William Maxwell
THE BLUE-WINGED TEAL. Wallace Stegner
THE ARCHIMANDRITE'S NIECE. James Reid Parker
A MOTHER'S TALE. James Agee
THE NATIONAL PASTIME. John Cheever
THE GIRLS IN THEIR SUMMER DRESSES. Irwin Shaw
THE DEATH OF SHORTY. Richard P. Bissell
GRANDMA AND THE HINDU MONK. Seymour Freedgood
MADAME ZILENSKY AND THE KING OF FINLAND. Carson
McCullers
THE LUCID EYE IN SILVER TOWN. John Updike
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