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The Best American Mystery Stories of the 19th Century (2014)

by Otto Penzler (Editor & Introduction)

Other authors: Louisa May Alcott (Contributor), Thomas Bailey Aldrich (Contributor), L. Frank Baum (Contributor), Edward Bellamy (Contributor), Ambrose Bierce (Contributor) — 25 more, Nicholas Carter (Contributor), Robert William Chambers (Contributor), Charles W. Chesnutt (Contributor), Stephen Crane (Contributor), Richard Harding Davis (Contributor), Ellen Glasgow (Contributor), Anna Katharine Green (Contributor), Nathaniel Hawthorne (Contributor), William M. Hinkley (Contributor), Washington Irving (Contributor), William Leggett (Contributor), Abraham Lincoln (Contributor), Jack London (Contributor), Cleveland Moffett (Contributor), William Norr (Contributor), Rodrigues Ottolengui (Contributor), Allan Pinkerton (Contributor), Edgar Allan Poe (Contributor), Percival Pollard (Contributor), Melville Davisson Post (Contributor), Frank Stockton (Contributor), Mark Twain (Contributor), Daniel Webster (Contributor), Edith Wharton (Contributor), Mary E. Wilkins (Contributor)

Series: The Best American Mystery Stories (19th Century), Best American (19th Century)

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An unparalleled treasury of crime, mystery, and murder from the genre's founding century With stories by Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, and Jack London, The Best American Mystery Stories of the Nineteenth Century is an essential anthology of American letters. It's a unique blend of beloved writers who contributed to the genre and forgotten names that pioneered the form, such as Anna Katharine Green, the godmother of mystery fiction, and the African-American writer Charles W. Chesnutt. Of course, Penzler includes "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," recognized as the first detective story, and with thirty-three stories spanning the years 1824'1899, nowhere else can readers find such a surprising, comprehensive take on the evolution of the American mystery story.… (more)

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813Literature › English (North America) › American fiction

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PS648.D4Language and Literature › American literature › American literature › Collections of American literature › Prose (General)

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