Table of Contents
The specter bridegroom / W. Irving -- Young Goodman Brown / N. Hawthorne -- The gold bug / E. A. Poe --Bartleby the scrivener / H. Melville -- Miss Asphyxia /H. B. Stowe -- The Iliad of Sandy Bar / B. Harte --Who was she? / B. Taylor -- Grit / R. T. Cooke -- An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / A. Bierce -- The return of a private / H. Garland -- A New England nun /M. E. W. Freeman -- The real thing / H. James -- The yellow wallpaper / C. P. Gilman -- The flight of Betsey Lane / S. O. Jewett -- La grande demoiselle /G. E. King-- The war widow / H. Frederic -- Madame Câelestin's divorce / K. Chopin -- The blue hotel / S. Crane -- A journey / E. Wharton -- The man that corrupted Hadleyburg / M. Twain -- All gold canyon / J. London -- The Rajah of Bungpore / F. H. Smith -- Nobody sick, nobody poor / Z. Gale -- One thousand dollars /O. Henry -- "Queer" / S. Anderson -- Up in Michigan /E. Hemingway -- Great lady on a white horse / J. Dos Passos -- The king of the cats / S. V. Benâet --Neighbour Rosicky / W. Cather -- Turnabout / W. Faulkner -- The evening's at seven / J. Thurber -- The long way out / F. S. Fitzgerald -- Ever fall in love with a midget? / W. Saroyan.