American fiction: Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Everett Hale, Washington Irving, Francis Bret Harte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain ... Edited with notes an introductions by William Allan Neilson.
The scarlet letter / N. Hawthorne -- Rappaccini's daughter / N. Hawthorne -- Rip Van Winkle, a posthumous writing of Diedrich Knickerbocker / W. Irving -- The legend of Sleepy Hollow / W. Irving -- Eleanora / E.A. Poe -- The fall of the house of Usher / E.A. Poe -- The purloined letter / E.A. Poe -- The luck of Roaring Camp / F.B. Harte -- The outcasts of Poker Flat / F.B. Harte -- Idyl of Red Gulch / F.B. Harte -- Jim Smily and his jumping frog / S.L. Clemens -- The man without a country / E.E. Hale.
