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The Bedside Book of Famous American Stories

Angus Burrell & Bennett A. Cerf

First published 1939
Publisher Random House
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Pages xviii+1347

Only SF-related items listed. TOC on page v. Acknowledgments on page ix. "The Lost Phoebe" listed in TOC as "The Lost Phœbe".

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Page Title Author(s) Type
3 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving Novelette
28 Rip Van Winkle Washington Irving Short Story
44 The Great Stone Face Nathaniel Hawthorne Novelette
60 Rappaccini's Daughter Nathaniel Hawthorne Novelette
85 The Murders in the Rue Morgue Edgar Allan Poe Novelette
113 The Pit and the Pendulum Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
126 The Purloined Letter Edgar Allan Poe Novelette
207 The Man Without a Country Edward Everett Hale Novelette
248 The Lady, or the Tiger? Frank R. Stockton Short Story
260 The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg Mark Twain Short Story
299 Marjorie Daw Thomas Bailey Aldrich Short Story
337 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Ambrose Bierce Short Story
345 The Boarded Window Ambrose Bierce Short Story
425 The Boy Who Drew Cats Lafcadio Hearn Short Story
493 The Furnished Room O. Henry Short Story
525 The Bar Sinister Richard Harding Davis Novelette
571 A Deal in Wheat Frank Norris Short Story
580 The Open Boat Stephen Crane Novelette
601 The Lost Phoebe Theodore Dreiser Short Story
681 Paul's Case Willa Cather Short Story
698 To Build a Fire Jack London Short Story
744 Porcelain Cups James Branch Cabell Short Story
759 Vain Oblations Katharine Fullerton Gerould Short Story
775 The Murder on Jefferson Street Dorothy Canfield Fisher Novelette
927 The Man Who Saw Through Heaven Wilbur Daniel Steele Short Story
959 Silent Snow, Secret Snow Conrad Aiken Short Story
993 The Arrow Christopher Morley Novelette
1117 The Body of an American John Dos Passos Short Story
1122 A Rose for Emily William Faulkner Short Story
1130 The Killers Ernest Hemingway Short Story
1317 Biographical Notes (The Bedside Book of Famous American Stories) Angus Burrell & Bennett A. Cerf Essay
xiii Introduction (The Bedside Book of Famous American Stories) Angus Burrell & Bennett A. Cerf Essay