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Read by Various Narrators Bronson Pinchot John Chancer Katherine Fenton Geraint Wyn Davies Patrick Fraley Russ Holcomb Norman Dietz This anthology of seven unabridged short stories represents some of the most significant works from the most influential American authors of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Included are Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe Mermaids by Louisa May Alcott The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce The Gift of the Magi by O Henry The Best of America Seven Classic Short Stories.