International Short Stories-Prophetic Pictures Legend of Sleepy Hollow Gold-bug Corporal Flint's Murder Uncle Jim and Uncle Billy Notary of Perigueux Widow's Cruise Count and the Wedding Quest Miss Tooker's Wedding Gift Fable of the Two Mandolin Players

by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, J. Fenimore Cooper, Bret Harte

Overview

Contents
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
(From "The Oak Openings") By J. Fenimore Cooper
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 Alfred Henry Lewis
JEAN MICHAUD'S LITTLE SHIP
By Charles G. D. Roberts
THOSE OLD LUNES!
By W. Gilmore Simms
THE CHIROPODIST
By Bayard Taylor
"MR. DOOLEY ON CORPORAL PUNISHMENT"
By F. P. Dunne
OVER A WOOD FIRE
Donald G. Mitchell--"Ik Marvel"

Product Details

BN ID:	2940158391279
Publisher:	ANEBook Publishing
Publication date:	05/18/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	365 KB

About the Author

One of the greatest authors in American literature, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was a novelist and short story writer born in Salem, Massachusetts. Hawthorne’s best-known books include The House of the Seven Gables and The Scarlet Letter, works marked by a psychological depth and moral insight seldom equaled by other writers.

Date of Birth:

July 4, 1804

Date of Death:

May 19, 1864

Place of Birth:

Salem, Massachusetts

Place of Death:

Plymouth, New Hampshire

Education:

Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, 1824