Nathaniel Hawthorne / The artist of the beautiful
Edgar Allan Poe / Cask of Amontillado
Herman Melville / Bartleby the scrivener: A tale of Wall Street
Fyodor Dostoevsky / The crocodile
Anton Chekhov / On official business
Guy De Maupassant / Minuet
Giovanni Verga / The she-wolf
Henry James / The middle years
Joseph Conrad / Il Conde
J.F. Powers / Lions, harts, leaping does
Stephen Crane / The blue hotel
Maxim Gorky / Twenty-six men and a girl
James Joyce / Counterparts
Italo Svevo / Generous wine
Dennis Lynds / A blue blonde in the sky over Pennsylvania
John Galsworthy / The Japanese quince
Franz Kafka / In the penal colony
F. Scott Fitzgerald / The diamond as big as the Ritz
Luigi Pirandello / In the abyss
Katherine Mansfield / The fly
Sherwood Anderson / Death in the woods
William Faulkner / A rose for Emily
Ernest Hemingway / The short happy life of Francis Macomber
Frank Rooney / Cyclists' raid
Flannery O'Connor / A good man is hard to find
James Thurber / The unicorn in the garden
Shirley Jackson / The witch
Carson McCullers / Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland
Philip Roth / The conversion of the Jews
Jorge Luis Borges / Death and the compass
Julio Cortazar / Bestiary
Paul Bowles / The scorpion
Ilse Aichinger / The bound man
Ted Hughes / Snow
Robert Creeley / The boat
Douglas Woolf / The flyman
Michael Rumaker / The pipe
Alain ARobbe-Grillet / The secret room