Specimens of the Short Story

Specimens of the Short Story

by Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Makepeace Thackeray, Francis Bret Harte, Charles Lamb, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, George Henry Nettleton, Washington Irving, George C. Nettleton

Part of Short story index reprint series

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Lamb, c. The supernnuated man (sketch) Irving, W. Rip Van Winkle (tale) Hawthorne, N. The great stone face (allegory) Poe, E.A. [Purloined Letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W) (detective story) Thackeray, W.M. Phil Fogarty (burlesque) Dickens, C. Dr. Manette's manuscript (story of incident) Harte, F.B. The outcasts of Poker flat (local color story) Stevenson, R.L. Markheim (psychological story)

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