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The Rinehart Book of Short Stories is an anthology curated by Clarence Lee Cline that brings together a selection of notable short stories by literary giants such as Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Guy de Maupassant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Anton Chekhov, Rudyard Kipling, Stephen Crane, Joseph Conrad, Sherwood Anderson, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, Stephen Vincent Benét, Somerset Maugham, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, James Thurber, and Eudora Welty. The collection explores a variety of themes—including horror, gothic fiction, American horror tales, and psychological drama—providing readers with a diverse range of classic narratives from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
First publish date: 1952
Genre: General Fiction/Short Stories
Authors: Clarence Lee Cline
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