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A brilliant, far-reaching collection of stories from Washington Irving to John Updike.

The Classic Stories
Edgar Allan Poe’s Ms. Found in a Bottle 
Bret Harte’s The Outcasts of Poker Flat 
Sherwood Anderson’s Death in the Woods
Stephen Vincent Benét’s By the Waters of Babylon

The Great Writers
Melville
James
Dreiser
Faulkner
Hemingway
Steinbeck
McCullers

The Little-Known Masterpieces
Edith Wharton’s The Dilettante
Finley Peter Dunne’s Mr. Dooley on the Popularity of Fireman
Charles M. Flandrau’s A Dead Issue
James Reid Parker’s The Archimandrite’s Niece

50 Great American Short Stories

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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A brilliant, far-reaching collection of stories from Washington Irving to John Updike.

      The Classic Stories
      Edgar Allan Poe’s Ms. Found in a Bottle 
      Bret Harte’s The Outcasts of Poker Flat 
      Sherwood Anderson’s Death in the Woods
      Stephen Vincent Benét’s By the Waters of Babylon

      The Great Writers
      Melville
      James
      Dreiser
      Faulkner
      Hemingway
      Steinbeck
      McCullers

      The Little-Known Masterpieces
      Edith Wharton’s The Dilettante
      Finley Peter Dunne’s Mr. Dooley on the Popularity of Fireman
      Charles M. Flandrau’s A Dead Issue
      James Reid Parker’s The Archimandrite’s Niece

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