American Short Stories
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| "Sonny's Blues" | James Baldwin
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| The Devil and Daniel Webster | Stephen Vincent Benet
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| An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge,The Death of Halpin Frazer, The Moonlit Road | Ambrose Bierce
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| Barn Burning, Red Leaves, Wash Old Man, A rose for Emily | William Faulkner
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| Young Goodman Brown, Dr. Heidegger's Experiment, Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe, The Celestial Railroad, The Minister's Black Veil | Nathaniel Hawthorne
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| The Open Boat,The Blue Hotel, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky | Stephen crane
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| The Snows of Kilimanjaro, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, The Killers, Indain Camp, The End of Something, Big Two-Hearted River, Fathers and Sons, Soldiers Home, In Another Country | Ernest Hemingway
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| The adventures of Shamrock Jolnes, The Exact Science of Matrimony, The Gift of the Magi, The Third Ingredient, Man About Town, The Ransom of Red Chief, A Retrieved Reformation | O Henry
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| The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle | Washington Irving
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| The Lottery, Charlie | Shirley Jackson
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| Europe, The Treee of Knowledge, The Turn of the Screw | Henry James
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| Deep Haven | Sarah Orne Jewett
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| The Son of the Wolf, The Apostate, To Build a Fire | Jack London
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| The Prison, The Magic Barrel, Idiots First | Bernard Malamud
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| Bartleby the Scrivener | Herman Melville
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| Friend of My Youth | Alice Munro
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| A Good Man is Hard to Find, Everything that rises must converge, | Flannery O'Connor
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| The Cask of Amontillado, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Gold Bug, The Masque of the Red Death, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat, Ligeia, The Mystery of Marie Roget, The Purloined Letter | Edgar Allen Poe
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| A Perfect Day of Banana Fish | J.D. Salinger
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| Flight, The Red Pony | John Steinbeck
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| Roman Fever | Edith Wharton
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| The Man Who Saw the Flood | Richard Wright
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| Why I Live at the P.O., The Worn Path, The Petrified Man | Eudora Welty
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| In Love and Trouble | Alice Walker
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| The Celebrated Jumping frog of Calaveras county, Mysterious Stranger | Mark Twain
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| The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Night the Bed Fell, The Catbird Seat | James Thurber
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| the catastrophic flood-losses facing a poor family of sharecroppers reveal the circumstances that force the emancipated but still ignorant and debased blacks to become indebted to and thus re-enslaved by the same whites from whom they received freedom. | The Man Who Saw the Flood
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| Split Cherry Tree | Jesse Stuart
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| characters include: Mr. Parson Hooper, the Sexton, Goodman Gray, Elizabeth | The Minister's Black Veil
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| The Monkey's Paw | W. W. Jacobs
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| Opens on a warm June day in a town of about three hundred people and describes an annual event in the town, a tradition that is apparently widespread among surrounding villages as well. Children arrive in the town square first and engage in "boisterous pl | The Lottery
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| Montresor leads a drunken Fortunato through a series of chambers beneath his palazzo with the promise of a taste of an exquisite wine, a wine that Montresor has just purchased. When the two men reach the last underground chamber, Montresor chains Fortunat | Cask of Amontillado
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| Regret, Desiree's Baby | Kate Chopin
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| Tales of the South Pacific | James Mitchner
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| Pigeon Feathers, Rabbit Remembered | John Updike
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| Welcome to the Monkey House | Kurt Vonnegut
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| Tales of the South Pacific | James Mitchner
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| Pigeon Feathers, Rabbit Remembered | John Updike
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| A semi-barbaric king devises a semi-barabaric (but entirely fair) method of criminal trial involving two doors, a beautiful lady and a very hungry tiger. | The Lady Or The Tiger?
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| The Lady Or The Tiger? | Kurt Vonnegut
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| Tales of the South Pacific | James Mitchner
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| The Man Without a Country | John Updike
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| A lawyer takes on a new employee but fails to check the references. The original role model for slackers everywhere. | Bartleby the Scrivener
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| A group of misfits are thrown together by the harsh realities of expulsion from their settlement. | The Outcasts of Poker Flat
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| Scarlett Stockings | Louisa May Alcott
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| The Eclipse | James Fenimore Cooper
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