A Book of Short Stories

The outer archives are busy

by Stuart Pratt Sherman, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle. Nathaniel Hawthorne: [The minister's black veil](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455342W). Ethan Brand. Edgar Allan Poe: [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W), the gold-bug. Charles Dickens: The signalman. Frank Stockton: The lady, or the tiger. Thomas Hardy: The three strangers. Robert Louis Stevenson: Will o' the mill, The Sire de Maletroit's door. Sir James Matthew Barrie: The courting of T'nowhead's Bell. O. Henry: Phœbe. Rudyard Kipling: The man who was.

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