Classic Short Stories
First published 1982
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Theme. Death of the Dauphin / Alphonse Daudet Lady or the tiger? / Frank Stockton Artist of the beautiful / Nathaniel Hawthorne — Setting. White heron / Sarah Orne Jewett Pit and the Pendulum / Edgar Allan Poe Outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte — Plot. Piece of string / Guy de Maupassant To please his wife / Thomas Hardy Cop and the anthem / O. Henry — Point of view. £1,000,000 bank note / Mark Twain Horseman in the sky / Ambrose Bierce Paul’s case / Willa Cather — Character. God sees the truth, but waits / Leo Tolstoy Man without a country / Edward Everett Hale Louisa / Mary Wilkins Freeman — Tone.
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Silver Burdett Company
- Publisher
- Silver Burdett Company
- ISBN
- 978-0-382-09988-5
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- Publisher
- Silver Burdett Company
- ISBNs
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- 978-0-382-09988-5
- 978-0-382-03444-2
- Author
- Daudet, Alphonse · Stockton, Frank R. · Hawthorne, Nathaniel · Jewett, Sarah Orne · Poe, Edgar Allan · Harte, Bret · Maupassant, Guy de · Hardy, Thomas, 1840–1928 · Henry, O. · Twain, Mark, 1835–1910 · Bierce, Ambrose · Cather, Willa, 1873–1947 · Hale, Edward Everett · Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins · Collins, Wilkie · Chopin, Kate
- Statement
- Classic Short Stories / Alphonse Daudet, Frank R. Stockton, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sarah Orne Jewett, Edgar Allan Poe, Bret Harte, Guy de Maupassant, Thomas Hardy, O. Henry, Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Willa Cather, Edward Everett Hale, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Wilkie Collins and Kate Chopin.
- Records
- Open Library
- Short stories
- American Horror tales
- American literature
- American Short stories
- Children's fiction
- Fear
- Horror
- Horror stories
- Pendulums
- Spanish Inquisition
- Toledo
- Mallard residence
- Father Time
- Louise Mallard
- Brently Mallard
- Josephine