Book of Short Stories

by Stuart Pratt Sherman

Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle. Nathaniel Hawthorne: [The minister's black veil](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455342W). Ethan Brand. Edgar Allan Poe: [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W), the gold-bug. Charles Dickens: The signalman. Frank Stockton: The lady, or the tiger. Thomas Hardy: The three strangers. Robert Louis Stevenson: Will o' the mill, The Sire de Maletroit's door. Sir James Matthew Barrie: The courting of T'nowhead's Bell. O. Henry: Phœbe. Rudyard Kipling: The man who was.

Chappie’s discussion starters

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Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?