The Best American Tales

The outer archives are busy

by William Peterfield Trent, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Rip Van Winkle, by W. Irving The legend of Sleepy Hollow, by W. Irving The great stone face, by N. Hawthorne [Rappaccini's daughter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455378W), by N. Hawthorne The gold-bug, by E.A. Poe [Descent into the Maelstrom](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273476W), by E.A. Poe [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W), by E.A. Poe What was it? A mystery, by F.-J. O'Brien The man without a country, by E.E. Hale

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