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    The Best American Short Stories
    The Best American Short Stories
    The Best American Short Stories
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    The Best American Short Stories

    Written by Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville and Mark Twain

    Narrated by Cathy Dobson

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    A wonderful collection of short stories" by some of the all-time great American writers.

    1. "The Diamond Lens" by Fitz James O’Brien

    2. "Titbottom’s Spectacles" by George William Curtis

    3. "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe

    4. "The Eyes of the Panther" by Ambrose Bierce

    5. "The Lightning Rod Man" by Hermann Melville

    6. "Seeds" by Sherwood Anderson

    7. "Who Was She?" by Bayard Taylor

    8. "The Man who stole a Meeting House" by John Townsend Trowbridge

    9. "Memoirs of a Yellow Dog" by O. Henry

    10. "The Tell-tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe

    11. "The Lady or the Tiger" by Frank Stockton

    12. "The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm" by Mark Twain

    13. "William Wilson" by Edgar Allan Poe

    14. "The New Englander" by Sherwood Anderson

    15. "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin

    16. "The Stolen White Elephant" by Mark Twain

    17. "The Unknown Quantity" by O. Henry

    18. "My Favorite Murder" by Ambrose Bierce

    19. "One Thousand Dollars" by O. Henry

    20. "The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe

    21. "The Belated Russian Passport" by Mark Twain

    22. "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry

    23. "American Sir!" by Mary Raymond Freeman Andrews

    24. "Curried Cow" by Ambrose Bierce

    25. "An Egyptian Cigarette" by Kate Chopin
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Door Consulting
    Release dateJul 10, 2014
    ISBN9781467682039
    Author

    Edgar Allan Poe

    New York Times bestselling author Dan Ariely is the James B. Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics at Duke University, with appointments at the Fuqua School of Business, the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and the Department of Economics. He has also held a visiting professorship at MIT’s Media Lab. He has appeared on CNN and CNBC, and is a regular commentator on National Public Radio’s Marketplace. He lives in Durham, North Carolina, with his wife and two children.

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