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Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle (1820) Edgar Allan Poe: The Gold Bug (1842) The Purloined Letter (1845) Nathaniel Hawthorne: Howe's Masquerade (1838) The Birthmark (1843) Francis Bret Harte: The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1869) Robert Louis ...

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