The Bedside Book of Famous American Stories

by Angus Burrell (Editor), Bennett A. Cerf (Editor)

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John Angus Burrell
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3+ Works 235 Members
Bennett A. Cerf
Editor
8+ Works 437 Members

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Ade, George (Contributor)
Aiken, Conrad (Contributor)
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey (Contributor)
Anderson, Sherwood (Contributor)
Atherton, Gertrude (Contributor)
Beer, Thomas (Contributor)
Bierce, Ambrose (Contributor)
Brush, Katharine (Contributor)
Cabell, James Branch (Contributor)
Caldwell, Erskine (Contributor)
Canfield, Dorothy (Contributor)
Cather, Willa (Contributor)
Crane, Stephen (Contributor)
Davis, Richard Harding (Contributor)
Dos Passos, John (Contributor)
Dreiser, Theodore (Contributor)
Faulkner, William (Contributor)
Ferber, Edna (Contributor)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Contributor)
Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins (Contributor)
Garland, Hamlin (Contributor)
Gerould, Katherine Fullerton (Contributor)
Glaspell, Susan (Contributor)
Hale, Edward Everett (Contributor)
Harris, Joel Chandler (Contributor)
Harte, Bret (Contributor)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (Contributor)
Hearn, Lafcadio (Contributor)
Hemingway, Ernest (Contributor)
Henry, O. (Contributor)
Hergesheimer, Joseph (Contributor)
Howells, William Dean (Contributor)
Irving, Washington (Contributor)
James, Henry (Contributor)
Jewett, Sarah Orne (Contributor)
Johnson, Owen (Contributor)
Lardner, Ring (Contributor)
London, Jack (Contributor)
Melville, Herman (Contributor)
Morley, Christopher (Contributor)
Norris, Frank (Contributor)
O'Brien, Fitz-James (Contributor)
O'Higgins, Harvey (Contributor)
Parker, Dorothy (Contributor)
Poe, Edgar Allan (Contributor)
Saroyan, William (Contributor)
Steele, Wilbur Daniel (Contributor)
Stein, Gertrude (Contributor)
Stockton, Frank R. (Contributor)
Suckow, Ruth (Contributor)
Tarkington, Booth (Contributor)
Twain, Mark (Contributor)
Wharton, Edith (Contributor)
Winslow, Thyra Samter (Contributor)
Wolfe, Thomas (Contributor)

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The Pit and the Pendulum [short story] by Edgar Allan Poe
The Murders in the Rue Morgue [short story] by Edgar Allan Poe
The Purloined Letter [short story] by Edgar Allan Poe
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow [short story] by Washington Irving
Rip van Winkle [short story] by Washington Irving
The Great Stone Face [short story] by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Rappaccini's Daughter [novelette] by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Billy Budd by Herman Melville
The Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale
The Diamond Lens by Fitz James O'Brien
The Lady, or the Tiger? [short story] by Frank Richard Stockton
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County [short story] by Mark Twain
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg [short story] by Mark Twain
Marjorie Daw by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Editha by William Dean Howells
The Outcasts of Poker Flat [short story] by Bret Harte
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge [short story] by Ambrose Bierce
The Boarded Window [short story] by Ambrose Bierce
The Real Thing by Henry James
The Author of Beltraffio by Henry James
Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, and the Tar Baby by Joel Chandler Harris
The Courting of Sister Wisby by Sarah Orne Jewett
The Boy Who Drew Cats by Lafcadio Hearn
The Pearls of Loreto by Gertrude Atherton
The Return of a Private [short story] by Hamlin Garland
A New England Nun [short story] by Mary E. Wilkins
The Mission of Jane by Edith Wharton
The Furnished Room [short story] by O. Henry
A Blackjack Bargainer [short story] by O. Henry
A Municipal Report [short story] by O. Henry
The Bar Sinister by Richard Harding Davis
Effie Whittlesy by George Ade
Little Gentleman by Booth Tarkington
A Deal in Wheat by Frank Norris
The Open Boat {story} by Stephen Crane
The Lost Phoebe by Theodore Dreiser
Big Dan Reilly by Harvey O'Higgins
The Good Anna {from Three Lives} by Gertrude Stein
Paul's Case {story} by Willa Cather
To Build a Fire [short story] by Jack London
I'm a Fool by Sherwood Anderson
I Want to Know Why by Sherwood Anderson
The Great Pancake Record by Owen Johnson
Porcelain Cups : A Story (in The Century Magazine, November 1919) by James Branch Cabell
Vain Oblations by Katharine Fullerton Gerould
The Murder on Jefferson Street [short story] by Dorothy Canfield
Wild Oranges by Joseph Hergesheimer
A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell
The Afternoon of a Faun by Edna Ferber
Some Like Them Cold by Ring Lardner
The Golden Honeymoon by Ring Lardner
The Man Who Saw Through Heaven by Wilbur Daniel Steele
Tact by Thomas Beer
Silent Snow, Secret Snow {story} by Conrad Aiken
Big Blonde {story} by Dorothy Parker
The Arrow by Christopher Morley
A Cycle of Manhattan by Thyra Samter Winslow
The Little Girl from Town by Ruth Suckow
The Rich Boy [short story] by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Body Of An American by John Dos Passos
A Rose for Emily [short story] by William Faulkner
The Killers [short story] by Ernest Hemingway
The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio by Ernest Hemingway
A Portrait of Bascom Hawke by Thomas Wolfe
Night Club by Katharine Brush
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze by William Saroyan

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Canonical title
The Bedside Book of Famous American Stories
Original title
The Bedside Book of Famous American Stories
Original publication date
1936
Disambiguation notice
Revised and enlarged in Angus Burrell and Bennett Cerf's later anthology, An Anthology of Famous American Stories (1953). Please distinguish between the two anthologies.

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Genres
Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
DDC/MDS
813 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English
LCC
PZ1 .B94 .B — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction in English
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