Great Short Short Stories
Quick Reads by Great Writers
Dover Thrift Edition
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Author
Publication
2005 - Dover Publications, Mineola, NY
Language
English
Word Count
52,000 words, Guess
Page Count
208 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Internet Archivegreatshortshorts00paul
- ISBN-139780486440989
- ISBN-100486440982
- Goodreads993150
- Library of Congress Control Number2005041346
and 6 more
- OCLC Control Number762100651
- Better World BooksO7-ARS-845
- Better World Books9780486440989
- Better World BooksP6-BTQ-224
- Better World BooksO6-BLR-648
- Open LibraryOL7639629M
Classifications
- LCCPN6120.2.G73 2005
- LCCPN6120.2 .G73 2005
Description
The egg / Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941, American) [Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge) / Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?, American) The enchanted bluff / Willa Cather (1873-1947, American) A malefactor / Anton Chekhov (1860-1904, Russian) [A pair of silk stockings](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078930W) / Kate Chopin (1851-1904, American) The veteran / Stephen Crane (1871-1900, American) The apparition of Mrs. Veal / Daniel Defoe (1660-1731, English) Nobody's story / Charles Dickens (1812-1870, English) If I were a man / Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935, American) Squire Petrick's lady / Thomas Hardy (1840-1928, English) The luck of Roaring Camp / Bret Harte (1836-1902, American) [Dr. Heidegger's experiment](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455515W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864, American) A ghost story / Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927, English) A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909, American) A country doctor / Franz Kafka (1883-1924, Czech) Wee Willie Winkie / Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936, English) Sanctuary / Nella Larsen (1891-1964, American) Second best / D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930, English) The white silence / Jack London (1876-1916, American) Germans at meat / Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923, English) A piece of string / Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893, French) The open window / H.H. Munro, or Saki (1870-1916, English) The furnished room / O. Henry (1962-1910, American) With other eyes / Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936, Italian) [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) / Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849, American) The coffin-maker / Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837, Russian) The three hermits / Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910, Russian) The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain (1835-1910, American) The remarkable case of Davidson's eyes / H.G. Wells (1866-1946, English) The sphinx without a secret / Oscar Wilde (1854-1900, Irish)
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