Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Beecher Stowe
Account of the Battle of Monmouth, George Washington
After the Winter, Kate Chopin
All Parrots Speak, Paul Bowles
The Ambitious Guest, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Apostate, Jack London
Arson Plus, Dashiell Hammett
Artemus Ward on His Visit to Abe Lincoln, Artemus Ward
Attack on Fort Donelson, Lew Wallace
Audience Tomorrow: Preview in New Guinea , Elia Kazan
Aunt Cynthy Dallett, Sarah Orne Jewett
Autobiography Written for Campaign, Abraham Lincoln
Baiting the Umpire, George Jean Nathan
Baxter’s Procrustes, Charles W. Chesnutt
Bill of Fare on the Plains, Annie D. Tallent
The Bouquet, Charles W. Chesnutt
A Box to Hide In, James Thurber
Business Deal, Nathanael West
The Cask of Amontillado, Edgar Allan Poe
Celebration in Charleston, William Howard Russell
Celebrations of Thanksgiving: Cuban Seasonings, Ana Menéndez
A Certain Oil Refinery, Theodore Dreiser
Charles, Shirley Jackson
The Charmed Life, Katherine Anne Porter
Chefoo, China, Thornton Wilder
The Christmas Dinner, Washington Irving
Cobb Fights It Over Again, Irvin S. Cobb
The Cut-Glass Bowl, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Day I Sprouted Wings, J. Herman Banning
Désireé’s Baby, Kate Chopin
Destruction of the Tea in Boston, John Adams
The Devil and Tom Walker, Washington Irving
A Dog's Tale, Mark Twain
The Doll, Charles W. Chesnutt
Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Duel, O. Henry
An English New Year, Henry James
An Experiment in Misery, Stephen Crane
Finishing School for Pickets, Howard Zinn
The Flying Fool, Waverly Root
The Fog, Berton Roueché
Going to Shrewsbury, Sarah Orne Jewett
Golden Baby, Alice Brown
The Gray Champion, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hop-Frog, Edgar Allan Poe
Horsefeathers Swathed in Mink, A. J. Liebling
A Horseman in the Sky, Ambrose Bierce
The Hossack Murder, Susan Glaspell
Hunting the Deceitful Turkey, Mark Twain
I’ll Be Waiting, Raymond Chandler
Immigrant Picnic, Gregory Djanikian
In France, P. T. Barnum
In Goldman, Sachs We Trust, John Kenneth Galbraith
An Interview with Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling
Jim Baker’s Blue-Jay Yarn , Mark Twain
A Journey, Edith Wharton
Kerfol, Edith Wharton
Kindling, Raymond Carver
The Lady on the Bookcase, James Thurber
The Little Room, Madeline Yale Wynne
Luella Miller, Mary Wilkins Freeman
A Memorable Murder, Celia Thaxter
Midnight, Jack Snow
Mon Amie, Randolph Bourne
The Moonlit Road, Ambrose Bierce
Mrs. Spring Fragrance, Edith Maude Eaton
The Nature of Liberty, H. L. Mencken
A Negro Tourist in Dixie, Bettye Rice Hughes
The Night We All Had Grippe, Shirley Jackson
On Some Mental Effects of the Earthquake, William James
Paste, Henry James
Paul Bunyan, John Dos Passos
Pitchers and Catchers, Moe Berg
Porcelain and Pink, F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Presidential Candidate, Mark Twain
A Problem, Henry James
Queen Victoria’s Jubilee, Mark Twain
The Ransom of Red Chief, O. Henry
The Refugee, Jane Rice
Remarkable Case of Arrest for Murder, Abraham Lincoln
A Respectable Woman, Kate Chopin
The Scavengers, Mary Austin
The Sentimentality of William Tavener, Willa Cather
The Shadowy Third, Ellen Glasgow
Shiftless Little Loafers, Susan Orlean
Some Strange Experience: The Reminiscences of a Ghost-Seer, Lafcadio Hearn
“Spiritus Valet”, Thornton Wilder
Stage Struck, Channing Pollock
Story in Harlem Slang, Zora Neale Hurston
The Striding Place, Gertrude Atherton
Success in Entertaining, Ward McAllister
Sunday Morning, Wallace Stevens
“There is no end to the amusements of Paris,” George Catlin
“This One Is Captain Waskow,” Ernie Pyle
To Build a Fire, Jack London
Tolstoi Holds Lincoln World’s Greatest Hero, Leo Tolstoy
Tomorrow, Eugene O'Neill
Tom's Husband, Sarah Orne Jewett
The Train, Flannery O'Connor
Twelve Strangers in the Night, Elizabeth M. Bisgood
The Union Army Retreats, William Howard Russell
Up the Stairs with Cus D’Amato, Pete Hamill
A Virginia Barbecue, John M. Duncan
A Wagner Matinée, Willa Cather
War, Jack London
Was It in His Hand?, Elizabeth Bishop
What It Means to be Colored in the Capital of the United States, Mary Church Terrell
When I Knew Stephen Crane, Willa Cather
When Man Falls, a Crowd Gathers, Stephen Crane
Where Do You Get that Noise?, Ring Lardner
A Wind-Storm in the Forests, John Muir
A Winter Walk, Henry David Thoreau
The Wives of the Dead, Nathaniel Hawthorne
W. L. S., Theodore Dreiser
World War II, Edward Field
Xingu, Edith Wharton
You Could Look It Up, James Thurber