Books like Great American Short Stories by Paul Negri
This anthology gathers seminal American short stories from notable authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Charles Waddell Chesnutt, Mark Twain, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Ernest Hemingway. Tales include "Young Goodman Brown," "The tell‑tale heart," "Bartleby," and "The killers," offering readers a cross‑section of early American literature that explores themes of morality, identity, and society.
First publish date: 2002
Genre: Horror/Gothic Horror
Authors: Paul Negri
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