Rip Van Winkle, by Washington Irving--The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Rip Van Winkle--Rappaccini's Daughter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne--The Fall of the House of Usher, by Edgar Allen Poe--The Murders in the Rue Morgue, by Edgar Allen Poe--The Purloined Letter, by Edgar Allen Poe--Benito Cereno, by Herman Melville--The Man Without a Country, by Edward Everett Hale--The Lady, or the Tiger?, by Frank R. Stockton--The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, by Mark Twain--The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg, by Mark Twain--The Luck of Roaring Camp, by Bret Harte--The Outcasts of Poker Flat, by Bret Harte--Marjorie Daw, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich--The Damned Thing, by Ambrose Bierce--An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, by Ambrose Bierce--The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James--Brer Rabbitt, Brer Fox, and the Tar Baby, by Joel Chandler Harris--A White Heron, by Sarah Orne Jewett--The Story of the Other Wise Man, by Henry Van Dyke--The Return of a Private, by Hamlin Garland--The Mission of Jane, by Edith Wharton--The Gift of the Magi, by O. Henry--The Furnished Room, by O. Henry--A Deal in Wheat, by Frank Norris--The Open Boat, by Stephen Crane--The Lost Phoebe, by Theodore Dreiser--Paul's Case, by Willa Cather--To Build a Fire, by Jack London--I'm a Fool, by Sherwood Anderson--The Golden Honeymoon, by Ring Lardner--The Afternoon of a Faun, by Edna Ferber--Humoresque, by Fannie Hurst--Silent Snow, Secret Snow, by Conrad Aiken--Flowering Judas, by Katherine Anne Porter--Big Blonde, by Dorothy Parker-- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, by James Thurber--Babylon Revisited, by F. Scott Fitzgerald--A Rose for Emily, by William Faulkner--The Devil and Daniel Webster, by Stephen Vincent Benet--The Snows of Kilimanjaro, by Ernest Hemingway--The Lost Boy, by Thomas Wolfe--The Red Pony, by John Steinbeck--Gimpel the Fool, by Isaac Bashevis Singer--Imagine Kissing Pete, by John O'Hara--The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, by William Saroyan--Death of a Traveling Salesman, by Eudora Welty--Christ in Concrete, by Pietro Di Donato--The Country Husband, by John Cheever--The Magic Barrel, by Bernard Malamud--A Silver Dish, by Saul Bellow--The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson--There Will Come Soft Rains, by Ray Bradbury--Welcome to the Monkey House, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.--A Christmas Memory, by Truman Capote--Tell me How Long the Train's Been Gone, by James Baldwin--A Good Man Is Hard to Find, by Flannery O'Connor--Pigeon Feathers, by John Updike--Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?, by Joyce Carol Oates.