A selection from the world's greatest short stories, illustrative of the history of short story writing.

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Cathlamet on the Columbia; recollections of the Indian people and short stories of early pioneer days in the valley of the lower Columbia River,

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A chosen few; short stories,

A tale of negative gravity.--Asaph.--His wife's deceased sister.--The lady,or the tiger?--The remarkable wreck of the Thomas Hyke.--Old Pipes and the dryad.--The transferred ghost.--The philosophy of relative existences.--A piece of red calico.

In the morning glow; short stories

Grandfather.--Grandmother.--While Aunt Jane played.--Little sister.--Our yard.--The toy grenadier.--Father.--Mother.

The story-life of Napoleon; hundreds of short stories from the greatest variety of sources reconciled and fitted together in a complete and continuous biography,

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The American authors of the West.

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The book of the short story /

Introduction.--The shipwrecked sailor. About 2500 B.C.--The book of Ruth. About 450 B.C.--Apuleius. The story of Cupid and Psyche. 2d century A.D.--Boccaccio. Frederick of the Alberighi and his falcon. 1353.--The story of Ali Baba, and the forty robbers destroyed by a slave. 1548.--Cervantes. The liberal lover. 1613.--Defoe. The apparition of Mrs. Veal. 1706.--Voltaire. Jeannot and Colon. 1764?--Irving, W. Rip Van Winkle. 1819.--Scott, Sir W. Wandering Willie's tale. 1824.--Mérimée, P. The taking of the redoubt. 1829.--Balzac, H. de. La Grande Bretéche. 1832.--Hawthorne, N. The birthmark. 1843.--Poe, E.A. The cask of Amontillado. 1846.--Turgeneff, I. A Lear of the steppes. 1870.--Stevenson, R.L. Markheim. 1884.--Maupassant, G. de. A coward. 1885.--Kipling, R. Without benefit of clergy. 1890.--A list of representative tales and short stories.

The trimmed lamp, and other stories of The four million /

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A book of short stories; a collection for use in high schools,

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Short stories of the hymns ; being a brief account of the circumstances in which some of our best hymns and songs were written,

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Told in the twilight : or, Short stories for long evenings /

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Short stories /

The tale of Chloe -- The house on the beach -- Farina -- The case of General Ople and Lady Camper.

O. Henry memorial award prize stories.

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Daddy Jake the runaway, and short stories told after dark,

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The man about town : short stories, philosophical reflections, curbstone politicians, the brown eyed girl, some real fish stories, letters from the resorts and the six barefooted boys /

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