American Short Stories
by Charles Sears Baldwin
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About this eBook
- Editor
- Baldwin, Charles Sears, 1867-1935
- Title
- American short stories : Selected and edited with an introductory essay on the short story by Charles Sears Baldwin
- Original Publication
- United States: Longmans, Green & Co., 1904, reprint 1921.
- Credits
- Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
- Subject
- American fiction -- 19th century
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 73141
- Release Date
- March 11, 2024
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.AMERICAN SHORT STORIES
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.AMERICAN SHORT STORIES — INTRODUCTION — I. THE TALE IN AMERICA BEFORE 1835 — II. POE’S INVENTION OF THE SHORT STORY
- 5.III. A GLANCE AT DERIVATION ANCIENT TALES, MEDIÆVAL TALES, THE MODERN FRENCH SHORT STORY
- 6.PART I THE TENTATIVE PERIOD — WASHINGTON IRVING 1783–1859
- 7.RIP VAN WINKLE A POSTHUMOUS WRITING OF DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER — WILLIAM AUSTIN 1778–1841
- 8.PETER RUGG, THE MISSING MAN — JAMES HALL 1793–1868
- 9.THE FRENCH VILLAGE — ALBERT PIKE 1809–1891
- 10.THE INROAD OF THE NABAJO — PART II THE PERIOD OF THE NEW FORM — NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE 1804–1864
- 11.THE WHITE OLD MAID — HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW 1807–1882
- 12.THE NOTARY OF PÉRIGUEUX — EDGAR ALLAN POE 1809–1849
- 13.THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER — NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS 1806–1867
- 14.THE INLET OF PEACH BLOSSOMS — CAROLINE MATILDA STANSBURY KIRKLAND 1801–1864
- 15.THE BEE-TREE — FITZ-JAMES O’BRIEN 1828–1862
- 16.WHAT WAS IT? A MYSTERY — FRANCIS BRET HARTE 1839–1902
- 17.THE OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT
- 18.ALBERT FALVEY WEBSTER 1848–1876
- 19.MISS EUNICE’S GLOVE — I — II — BAYARD TAYLOR 1825–1878
- 20.WHO WAS SHE? — HENRY CUYLER BUNNER 1855–1896
- 21.THE LOVE-LETTERS OF SMITH — HAROLD FREDERIC 1856–1898
- 22.THE EVE OF THE FOURTH
- 23.BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE — FOOTNOTES
- 24.INDEX — Transcriber’s Notes
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