Contains:
The legend of Sleepy Hollow --
Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving --
Young Goodman Brown
Minister's Black Veil / Nathaniel Hawthorne
The fall of the house of Usher --
The tell-tale heart--
The purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe --
Bartleby / Herman Melville --
My contraband / Louisa May Alcott --
The celebrated jumbing frog of Caleveras County / Mark Twain --
The luck of Roaring Camp --
The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte --
An occurrance at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce --
The real right thing --
The best in the jungle / Henry James --
A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett --
Athénaïse / Kate Chopin --
The revolt of "Mother" / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman --
The wife of his youth / Charles W. Chestnut --
The yellow wall-paper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman --
The other two --
Autres temps / Edith Wharton --
The ransom of Red Chief --
The gift of the Magi / O. Henry --
The open boat --
The bride comes to Yellow Sky / Stephen Crane --
Build a fire / Jack London --
The sculptor's funeral --
Paul's case / Willa Cather --
Sophistication --
The egg / Sherwood Anderson --
Bernice bobs her hair --
The diamond as big as The Ritz / F. Scott Fitzgerald