The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- The jewels / Guy de Maupassant -- Gooseberries / Anton Chekhov -- The tree of knowledge / Henry James -- A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway -- Youth / Joseph Conrad -- The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence -- Bliss / Katherine Mansfield -- The dead / James Joyce -- Little Herr Friedemann / Thomas Mann -- Sophistication / Sherwood Anderson -- The story of my dovecot / Isaac Babel -- The devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benet -- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner -- The metamorphosis (part I) / Franz Kafka -- The wall / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Judas / Frank O'Connor -- Of this time, of that place / Lionel Trilling -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- The ledge / Lawrence Sargent Hall.