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Short Story Classics  American Volume 1 
Edited by William Patten 
 - New York  P. F. Collier & Son  1907 
 - 331 p. 
<br/><br/>Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- The murders in the Rue Morgue / Edgar Allan Poe -- The great stone face / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The man in the reservoir / Chalres Fenno Hoffman -- The diamond lens / Fitz-James O'Brien -- The man without a country / Edward Everett Hale -- A brace of boys / Fitz Hugh Ludlow -- The man who stole a meeting-house / J.T. Trowbridge -- A ride with a mad horse in a freight-car / W.H.H. Murray -- Balacchi Brothers / Rebecca Harding Davis. 
<br/><br/> Vol. 1 has first book appearance of A ride with a mad horse in a freight-car by W.H.H. Murray. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Short Stories--Literary collections
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813 Sho   14