Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving—Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne—The fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe—The lightning-rod man / Herman Melville—The diamond lens / Fitzjames O'Brien—The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain—The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte—The damned thing / Ambrose Bierce—The turn of the screw / Henry James—The Hiltons' holiday / Sarah Orne Jewett—The gift of the Magi / O. Henry—The moving finger / Edith Wharton—The open boat / Stephen Crane—Lou, the prophet / Willa Cather—The men of Forty Mile / Jack London—Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald—A rose for Emily / William Faulkner—Big two-hearted river / Ernest Hemingway—Flight / John Steinbeck.
