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American Short StoriesAmerican Short Stories

American Short Stories

William Faulkner, Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Ernest Hemingway, Hamlin Garland, Sherwood Anderson, Stephen Crane, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Katherine Anne Porter, Jack London, Edith Wharton, Henry James, Douglas Grant, Herman Melville

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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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OL6664828W

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American Short storiesFictionSocial life and customsShort stories, americanhorror fictioncatsChildren's fictionshort storyfirst-person narrativeunreliable narratorsself-hatredgallows

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