Contents:
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Young Goodman Brown (1835) --
Edgar Allan Poe: The tell-tale heart (1843) --
Herman Melville: Bartleby (1856) --
Bret Harte: The luck of Roaring Camp (1870) --
Stephen Crane: The bride comes to Yellow Sky (1878) --
Mark Twain: The private history of a campaign that failed (1885) --
Sarah Orne Jewett: A white heron (1886) --
Charles Waddell Chesnutt: The goophered grapevine (1887) --
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: A New England nun (1891) --
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The yellow wallpaper (1892) --
Henry James: The real thing (1893) --
Kate Chopin: A pair of silk stockings (1897) --
Jack London: To build a fire (1908) --
Ambrose Bierce: An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1909) --
Theodore Dreiser: The lost phoebe (1916) --
Willa Cather: Paul's case (1920) --
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Bernice bobs her hair (1920) --
Sherwood Anderson: The egg (1921) --
Ernest Hemingway: The killers (1927)