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This comprehensive anthology features 19 essential works from the American short-story tradition. It spans nearly a century of literature, beginning with Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" (1835) and concluding with Ernest Hemingway's "The Killers" (1927).Notable Authors & Stories Included: Nathaniel Hawthorne: "Young Goodman Brown" Edgar Allan Poe: "The Tell-Tale Heart" Herman Melville: "Bartleby" Mark Twain: "The Private History of a Campaign that Failed" Henry James: "The Real Thing" Jack London: "To Build a Fire"F.Scott Fitzgerald: "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" Ernest Hemingway: "The Killers" Features of this Edition: New introduction and author biographies. Chronologies of historical and cultural events. Footnotes, endnotes, and bibliographies for further reading.