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WASHINGTON IRVING: Rip Van Winkle (1820)

1

EDGAR ALLAN Poe: The Gold Bug (1842)

23

The Purloined Letter (1845)

69

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE: Howe's Masquerade (1838)

93

The Birthmark (1843)

112

Francis BRET HARTE: The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1869) 134

Robert Louis STEVENSON: The Sire de Malétroit's Door (1878) 148

Markheim (1885) ·

174

RUDYARD KIPLING: Wee Willie Winkie (1888).

196

NOTES

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