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Classic American Short Stories
A selection of landmark stories that have helped to shape American literature. Includes works by Herman Melville, Mark Twain and Edith Wharton.
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The inhabitants of Sleepy Hollow include Ichabod, the lovely Katrina and very possibly a headless ghost.
- Length: 13 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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Goodman Brown keeps a midnight appointment in the woods near Salem Village.
- Length: 13 pages
- Age Rating: PG
4 Stars
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The original gothic tale of madness, death and the atmospheric possibilities of an old house.
- Length: 17 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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A lawyer takes on a new employee but fails to check the references. The original role model for slackers everywhere.
- Length: 37 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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The story - so fully realised that many took it to be true - of a young soldier who curses his country and is sentenced never to set foot in it again.
- Length: 25 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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A semi-barbaric king devises a semi-barabaric (but entirely fair) method of criminal trial involving two doors, a beautiful lady and a very hungry tiger.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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The story of an enterprising gambler who finds some unusual uses for animals.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
4 Stars
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A group of misfits are thrown together by the harsh realities of expulsion from their settlement.
- Length: 10 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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A man stands on a railroad bridge; his wrists are bound with a chord, a rope encircles his neck. This story was adapted into the most popular ever episode of The Twighlight Zone.
- Length: 11 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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The events surrounding the birth of a child - the father a member of an important Louisiana family; the mother a woman found abandoned as a baby.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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Classic first-person account of a woman's descent into madness.
- Length: 21 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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A trigic, ironic Christmas for one hard up couple.
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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A married couple return to the groom's home town to start their life together - but his position as town marshal complicates matters.
- Length: 12 pages
- Age Rating: PG
4 Stars
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A man and his dog fight for survival during a bitterly cold Arctic trek.
- Length: 15 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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