Great American Short Stories

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Contains: The legend of Sleepy Hollow -- Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W/Young_Goodman_Brown) [Minister's Black Veil](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455342W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne [The fall of the house of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) -- [The tell-tale heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W)-- [The purloined letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- [Bartleby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W/Bartleby_the_Scrivener) / Herman Melville -- My contraband / Louisa May Alcott -- The celebrated jumbing frog of Caleveras County / Mark Twain -- The luck of Roaring Camp -- The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte -- [An occurrance at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge) / Ambrose Bierce -- The real right thing -- The best in the jungle / Henry James -- A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett -- Athénaïse / Kate Chopin -- The revolt of "Mother" / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- The wife of his youth / Charles W. Chestnut -- The yellow wall-paper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The other two -- Autres temps / Edith Wharton -- The ransom of Red Chief -- The gift of the Magi / O. Henry -- The open boat -- The bride comes to Yellow Sky / Stephen Crane -- Build a fire / Jack London -- The sculptor's funeral -- Paul's case / Willa Cather -- Sophistication -- The egg / Sherwood Anderson -- Bernice bobs her hair -- The diamond as big as The Ritz / F. Scott Fitzgerald

subjects: short story,  sextons,  clergy,  Kurzgeschichte,  Social life and customs,  American Short stories,  Manners and customs,  Amerikanisches Englisch,  Fiction,  History,  United States Civil War,  Classic Literature,  Short Stories,  hanging,  Confederacy,  Union,  Young men,  Copyists,  Psychology,  Securities industry,  Satanism,  Puritans,  catechism,  Juvenile audience,  civil war,  American Civil War,  Confederate States of America,  Mystery and detective stories,  monograms,  Children's fiction,  American Horror tales,  burial vaults,  catalepsy,  dragons,  gothic fiction,  hermitages,  heroic romances,  horror,  horror tales,  hysteria,  knights,  maces,  psychogenic death,  tarns,  American literature,  Crime,  Crime fiction,  Crime in fiction,  Delitos,  Detective and mystery stories,  first-person narrative,  Gothic fiction (literary genre),  Homicide,  Horror fiction,  Horror stories,  Hyperesthesia,  Juvenile fiction,  Murder,  Murder in fiction,  Fiction, short stories (single author),  United states, social life and customs, fiction

People: Peyton Farquhar,  Mr. Hooper,  Elizabeth,  Bartleby,  Turkey,  Nippers,  Ginger Nut,  John Jacob Astor,  Cicero,  Goodman Brown,  Faith Brown,  Goody Cloyse,  Devil,  C. Auguste Dupin,  Minister D—,  Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon,  Roderick Usher,  Madeline Usher,  Ethelred

Places: meeting house,  United States,  USA,  Alabama,  Owl Creek Bridge,  New York,  Wall Street,  New England,  Salem Village,  Massachusetts,  Paris

Times: Civil War,  1861-1865,  American Civil War,  19th century,  1600s,  1861-65