The Lock and Key Library: The most interesting stories of all nations: American is part of the Science Fiction & Utopias catalogue. The record identifies Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? [Contributor], Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810 [Contributor], Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion), 1854-1909 [Contributor], Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930 [Contributor], Hawthorne, Julian, 1846-1934 [Editor] as the credited author and preserves a link to the source edition.

Edition profile

The extracted text contains approximately 132,000 words, corresponding to an estimated 574 minutes of reading, and is divided into 11 detectable text sections. These figures describe the downloaded text file rather than a printed pagination system.

The automated text analysis reports an average sentence length of about 18.2 words and a measured lexical-diversity value of 0.087. These measurements are descriptive reading aids, not literary ratings.

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The source record associates this edition with the following subjects: Detective and mystery stories, Short stories, American. Catalog terms may reflect historical library practice and can be broader or narrower than a modern reader’s interpretation.

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