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Classic Short Stories

Classic Short Stories

Sarah Orne Jewett, Mark Twain, Alphonse Daudet, Ambrose Bierce, Wilkie Collins, Frank R. Stockton, Лев Толстой, Guy de Maupassant, O. Henry, Willa Cather, Edward Everett Hale, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Kate Chopin, Bret Harte, Thomas Hardy, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Антон Павлович Чехов

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Theme. Death of the Dauphin / Alphonse Daudet Lady or the tiger? / Frank Stockton Artist of the beautiful / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Setting. White heron / Sarah Orne Jewett [Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W) / Edgar Allan Poe Outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte -- Plot. Piece of string / Guy de Maupassant To please his wife / Thomas Hardy Cop and the anthem / O. Henry -- Point of view. £1,000,000 bank note / Mark Twain Horseman in the sky / Ambrose Bierce Paul's case / Willa Cather -- Character. God sees the truth, but waits / Leo Tolstoy Man without a country / Edward Everett Hale Louisa / Mary Wilkins Freeman -- Tone. Fatal cradle / Wilkie Collins [Story of an hour](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078864W) / Kate Chopin Work of art / Anton Chekhov

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OL20136833W

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Short storiesAmerican fictionAmerican Horror talesAmerican literatureAmerican Short storiesChildren's fictionfearFictionhorrorHorror storiespendulumsSpanish Inquisitionfreedomselfhoodself-fulfillmentmeaning of loveshort story

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