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Title: International Short Stories
American

Author: Various

Editor: William Patten

Release Date: June 16, 2010 [EBook #32845]

Language: English

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Produced by Al Haines

[Frontispiece: Anna Katharine Green]

INTERNATIONAL SHORT STORIES

EDITED BY

WILLIAM PATTEN

A NEW COLLECTION OF
FAMOUS EXAMPLES
FROM THE LITERATURES
OF ENGLAND, FRANCE
AND AMERICA

AMERICAN

P F COLLIER & SON

NEW YORK

Copyright, 1910

BY P. F. COLLIER & SON

The use of the copyrighted stories in this collection has been
authorized in each case by their authors or by their representatives.

AMERICAN STORIES

THE PROPHETIC PICTURES . . . . . . . . . . . . By Nathaniel Hawthorne

THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW . . . . . . . . . . By Washington Irving

THE GOLD-BUG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By Edgar Allan Poe

CORPORAL FLINT'S MURDER . . . . . . . . . . . . By J. Fenimore Cooper
(From "The Oak Openings")

UNCLE JIM AND UNCLE BILLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By Bret Harte

THE NOTARY OF PERIGUEUX . . . . . . . . . . . . . By H. W. Longfellow

THE WIDOW'S CRUISE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By F. R. Stockton

THE COUNT AND THE WEDDING QUEST . . . . . . . . . . . . . By O. Henry

MISS TOOKER'S WEDDING GIFT . . . . . . . . . . By John Kendrick Bangs

THE FABLE OF THE TWO MANDOLIN PLAYERS AND
THE WILLING PERFORMER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By George Ade

THE FABLE OF THE PREACHER WHO FLEW HIS KITE,
BUT NOT BECAUSE HE WISHED TO DO SO . . . . . . . . . . By George Ade

THE SHADOWS ON THE WALL . . . . . . . . . By Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

MAJOR PERDUE'S BARGAIN . . . . . . . . . . . . By Joel Chandler Harris

A KENTUCKY CINDERELLA . . . . . . . . . . . . . By F. Hopkinson Smith

BY THE WATERS OF PARADISE . . . . . . . . . . . By F. Marion Crawford

A MEMORABLE NIGHT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By Anna Katharine Green

THE MAN FROM RED DOG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By