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7 best short stories - American Civil War

The US Civil War (18611865) still serves as one of the milestones in American literary history, commonly representing the dividing line in survey courses and reference works on 19th-century American literature. Through seven short stories selected by the critic August Nemo you will be able to understand the different nuances of this historical moment:

- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce

- The Veteran by Stephen Crane

- The Story of a Year by Henry James

- The Locket by Kate Chopin

- The Brothers by Louisa May Alcott

- The Namesake by Willa Cather

- The Burial of the Guns by Thomas Nelson PageFor more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection! <

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  1. World's Greatest Short Stories

    Daniel Defoe, Benjamin Franklin, Washington Irving, Mateo Falcone, Charlotte Bronte, Mary Shelley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nikolai Gogol, Edgar Allan Poe, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Charles Dickens, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Guy De Maupassant, Oscar Wilde, Leo Tolstoy, H.G. Wells, Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, Kate Chopin, Jack London, E. M. Forster

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  2. 500 citations des grands philosophes du XXe siècle

    Gaston Bachelard, Ambrose Bierce, Emil Cioran, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung

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  3. 50 Masterpieces of Gothic Fiction Vol. 1: Dracula, Frankenstein, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Picture Of Dorian Gray... (Halloween Stories)

    Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, E F Benson, Ambrose Bierce, Blackwood Algernon, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Robert W. Chambers, Wilkie Collins, F. Marion Crawford, Walter de la Mare, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Nikolai Gogol, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Victor Hugo, Henry James, Franz Kafka, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle

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  4. Gigantesco Libro de los Mejores Cuentos - Volume 1

    Antón Chéjov, Abraham Valdelomar, Antonio de Trueba, Baldomero Lillo, César Vallejo, Edgar Allan Poe, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Horacio Quiroga, Joaquín Dicenta, José Martí, José Ortega Munilla, Juan Valera, Julia de Asensi, Leopoldo Alas, Leopoldo Lugones, Oscar Wilde, Ricardo Güiraldes, Roberto Payró, Soledad Acosta De Samper, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Washington Irving, Alfred de Musset, Saki (H.H. Munro), Émile Zola, Villiers l'Isle de Adam, Mark Twain, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Ambrose Bierce, Lewis Carroll, Arthur Conan Doyle, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, H.P. Lovecraft, Machado de Assis, Guy De Maupassant, August Nemo

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  5. Vampire Tales: The Big Collection (80+ stories in one volume: The Viy, The Fate of Madame Cabanel, The Parasite, Good Lady Ducayne, Count Magnus, For the Blood Is the Life, Dracula’s Guest, The Broken Fang, Blood Lust, Four Wooden Stakes...)

    Fred M. White, Mary E. Braddon, E. G. Swain, Ulric Daubeny, Cynthia Asquith, Hesketh V. Pritchard, Nikolai Gogol, Bram Stoker, Clark Ashton Smith, Edgar Allan Poe, Jan Neruda, Gilbert William, Sabine Baring-Gould, Alexei Tolstoy, John William Polidori, Johann Ludwig Tieck, Pu Songling, Victor Roman, Edith Wharton, Robert Louis Stevenson, Everil Worrell, Dion Fortune, Uel Key, Horacio Quiroga, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Claude Askew, Théophile Gaultier, Luigi Capuana, Louise J. Strong, Norris Frank, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Augustus Hare, F.G. Loring, Hume Nisbet, H. B. Marriott Watson, Eric Stenbock, Marsh Richard, Anne Crawford, Cholmondeley Mary, Hawthorne Julian, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Phil Robinson, Eliza Lynn Linton, A. B. Mitford, Vincent O'Sullivan, Edith Nesbit, Guy De Maupassant, Lee Vernon, D. H. Lawrence, Robert E. Howard, F. Marion Crawford, Walter de la Mare, Blackwood Algernon, Ambrose Bierce, E F Benson, M. R. James, Andreyev Leonid, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Arthur Conan Doyle, Herbert George Wells

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  6. 100 Amerikanische Klassiker - Meisterwerke, die man kennen muss

    Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Jack London, Stephen Crane, L. Frank Baum, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Henry David Thoreau, Elbert Hubbard, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ambrose Bierce, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Lew Wallace, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Norman Hall, Edgar Allan Poe, O.Henry, H.P. Lovecraft, James Fenimore Cooper, Edward Bellamy, Bret Harte, Max Brand, Zane Grey, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Wharton, Margaret Mitchell, Henry James, Theodor Dreiser, Gertrude Stein, Sinclair Lewis, Warwick Deeping, Thomas Wolfe, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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  7. The Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce

    Ambrose Bierce, Zenith Horizon Publishing

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  8. World's Greatest Sci-Fi Stories

    Daniel Defoe, Benjamin Franklin, Washington Irving, Mateo Falcone, Charlotte Bronte, Mary Shelley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nikolai Gogol, Edgar Allan Poe, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Charles Dickens, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Guy De Maupassant, Oscar Wilde, Leo Tolstoy, H.G. Wells, Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, Kate Chopin, Jack London, E. M. Forster

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  9. The Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce : Satire, Supernatural Horror, Civil War Tales, and The Devil's Dictionary

    Ambrose Bierce, Zenith Evergreen Literary Co

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  10. Tales of the Dark Romantics & Beyond : A collection of mysterious and chilling works by

    Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ambrose Bierce, Washington Irving, Henry James, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, William Cullen Bryant, Louisa May Alcott, Emily Bronte, Lord Alfred, James Whitcomb Riley

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  11. Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce : The Master of Satire and Macabre

    Ambrose Bierce, Zenith Crescent Moon Press

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  12. The Damned Thing :

    Ambrose Bierce

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  1. 7 best short stories - Boxing

    Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack London, Robert E. Howard, Ring Lardner, August Nemo

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  2. 7 best short stories - Ghost Stories

    Sheridan Le Fanu, Saki (H.H. Munro), Elizabeth Gaskell, M. R. James, Lafcadio Hearn, O.Henry, Rudyard Kipling, August Nemo

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  3. 7 best short stories - Russian Authors

    Leo Tolstoy, Leonid Andreyev, Maxim Gorky, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Anton Chekhov, Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, August Nemo

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  4. 7 best short stories - Halloween

    W. W. Jacobs, M. R. James, Lafcadio Hearn, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Leonid Andreyev, August Nemo

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  5. 7 best short stories - Christmas

    Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Dickens, Mary E. Freeman, Henry van Dyke, Stephen Leacock, Leo Tolstoy, O.Henry, August Nemo

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  6. 7 best short stories - Morality Tales

    Stephen Leacock, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Kate Chopin, Guy De Maupassant, Matsuo Bashō, August Nemo

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  7. 7 best short stories - Thanksgiving Day

    Louisa May Alcott, Mary E. Freeman, William Dean Howells, O.Henry, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Francis K. Ball, Edward Payson Roe, August Nemo

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  8. 7 best short stories - World War I

    Rudyard Kipling, Katherine Mansfield, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H.P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, Arthur Conan Doyle, August Nemo

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  9. 7 best short stories - Feminist Fiction

    August Nemo, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Edith Nesbit

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  10. 7 best short stories - Feel-Good Stories

    George Ade, H.G. Wells, Anton Chekhov, T. S. Arthur, Oscar Wilde, O.Henry, Nathaniel Hawthorne, August Nemo

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  11. 7 best short stories - Victorian Romance

    William Schwenck Gilbert, Anthony Trollope, Elizabeth Gaskell, Margaret Oliphant, George Moore, August Nemo

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