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ficbot · 03-11-2013, 08:36 PM

I am experimenting with Sigil and thought it would be fun to put together an anthology of the best/most famous/influential public domain short stories. I was thinking it could be like a textbook of the short story with all the great ones in one place. I would of course share it here

Now, what to include? Here is what I have so far:

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins
The Adventure of the Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A Jury of her Peers by Susan Glaspell
The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling
The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
The Lady, or the Tiger? by Frank Richards Stockton
Three Questions by Leo Tolstoy
The $30,000 Bequest by Mark Twain

03-11-2013, 08:36 PM	#1
ficbot Wizard Posts: 2,409 Karma: 4132096 Join Date: Sep 2008 Device: Kindle Paperwhite/iOS Kindle App	What would you put into an anthology of the best short stories ever? I am experimenting with Sigil and thought it would be fun to put together an anthology of the best/most famous/influential public domain short stories. I was thinking it could be like a textbook of the short story with all the great ones in one place. I would of course share it here Now, what to include? Here is what I have so far: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins The Adventure of the Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman A Jury of her Peers by Susan Glaspell The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe The Lady, or the Tiger? by Frank Richards Stockton Three Questions by Leo Tolstoy The $30,000 Bequest by Mark Twain