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The Signet Classic Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (1985)

by Burton Raffel (Editor)

Other authors: Sherwood Anderson (Contributor), Stephen Vincent Benét (Contributor), Ambrose Bierce (Contributor), Willa Cather (Contributor), Kate Chopin (Contributor)28 more, Rose Terry Cook (Contributor), Stephen Crane (Contributor), John Dos Passos (Contributor), William Faulkner (Contributor), F. Scott Fitzgerald (Contributor), Harold Frederic (Contributor), Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (Contributor), Zona Gale (Contributor), Hamlin Garland (Contributor), Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Contributor), Bret Harte (Contributor), Nathaniel Hawthorne (Contributor), Ernest Hemingway (Contributor), O. Henry (Contributor), Washington Irving (Contributor), Henry James (Contributor), Sarah Orne Jewett (Contributor), Grace Elizabeth King (Contributor), Jack London (Contributor), Herman Melville (Contributor), Edgar Allan Poe (Contributor), William Saroyan (Contributor), F. Hopkinson Smith (Contributor), Harriet Beecher Stowe (Contributor), Bayard Taylor (Contributor), James Thurber (Contributor), Mark Twain (Contributor), Edith Wharton (Contributor)

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Cather, WillaContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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Dos Passos, JohnContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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Contains:
  • The Specter Bridegroom / Washington Irving (1820)
  • Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne (1835)
  • The Gold Bug / Edgar Allan Poe (1843)
  • Bartleby the Scrivener / Herman Melville (1853)
  • Miss Asphyxia / Harriet Beecher Stowe (1869)
  • The Iliad of Sandy Bar / Bret Harte (1873)
  • Who Was She? / Bayard Taylor (1874)
  • Grit / Rose Terry Cook (1877)
  • An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce (1890)
  • The Return of a Private / Hamlin Garland (1890)
  • A New England Nun / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1891)
  • The Real Thing / Henry James (1892)
  • The Yellow Wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892)
  • The Flight of Betsey Lane / Sarah Orne Jewett (1893)
  • La Grande Demoiselle / Grace Elizabeth King (1893)
  • The War Widow / Harold Frederic (1894)
  • Madame Célestin's Divorce / Kate Chopin (1894)
  • The Blue Hotel / Stephen Crane (1898)
  • A Journey / Edith Wharton (1899)
  • The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg / Mark Twain (1900)
  • All Gold Canyon / Jack London (1905)
  • The Rajah of Bungpore / F. Hopkinson Smith (1905)
  • Nobody Sick, Nobody Poor / Zona Gale (1907)
  • One Thousand Dollars / O. Henry (1908)
  • "Queer" / Sherwood Anderson (1919)
  • Up in Michigan / Ernest Hemingway (1921)
  • Great Lady on a White Horse / John Dos Passos (1925)
  • The King of the Cats / Stephen Vincent Benét (1929)
  • Neighbour Rosicky / Willa Cather (1930)
  • Turnabout / William Faulkner (1932)
  • The Evening's at Seven / James Thurber (1935)
  • The Long Way Out / F. Scott Fitzgerald (1937)
  • Ever Fall in Love with a Midget? / William Saroyan (1938)
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