The gold-bug / Edgar Allan Poe --
Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
A Christmas carol / Charles Dickens --
Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving --
The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte --
The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain --
The real thing / Henry James --
The gift of the Magi / O. Henry --
Marjorie Daw / Thomas Bailey Aldrich --
The lady or the tiger? / Frank R. Stockton --
In the fog / Richard Harding Davis --
A lodging for the night / Robert Louis Stevenson --
The man who would be king / Rudyard Kipling --
The necklace / Guy de Maupassant --
A passion in the desert / Honoré de Balzac --
Verotchka / Anton Checkov --
Our lady's juggler / Anatole France --
Adventure of the Speckled Band / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle --
The doll's house / Katherine Mansfield --
A gray sleeve / Stephen Crane --
The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad --
Plum pudding and mince pie / Alice Duer Miller --
Land / Sinclair Lewis --
The killers / Ernest Hemmingway --
The leader of the people / John Steinbeck.