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| 1. | The Cut-Glass Bowl | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 2. | Luella Miller | Mary Wilkins Freeman |
| 3. | The Bouquet | Charles W. Chesnutt |
| 4. | A Wind-Storm in the Forests | John Muir |
| 5. | Mrs. Spring Fragrance | Edith Maude Eaton |
| 6. | The Sentimentality of William Tavener | Willa Cather |
| 7. | Tolstoi Holds Lincoln World’s Greatest Hero | Leo Tolstoy |
| 8. | Some Strange Experience:
The Reminiscences of a Ghost-Seer | Lafcadio Hearn |
| 9. | War | Jack London |
| 10. | A Respectable Woman | Kate Chopin |
| 11. | Queen Victoria’s Jubilee | Mark Twain |
| 12. | Kerfol | Edith Wharton |
| 13. | A Memorable Murder | Celia Thaxter |
| 14. | Baiting the Umpire | George Jean Nathan |
| 15. | In France | P. T. Barnum |
| 16. | An Interview with Mark Twain | Rudyard Kipling |
| 17. | The Lady on the Bookcase | James Thurber |
| 18. | The Wives of the Dead | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 19. | Stage Struck | Channing Pollock |
| 20. | When Man Falls, a Crowd Gathers | Stephen Crane |
| 21. | Business Deal | Nathanael West |
| 22. | World War II | Edward Field |
| 23. | Charles | Shirley Jackson |
| 24. | The Charmed Life | Katherine Anne Porter |
| 25. | The Moonlit Road | Ambrose Bierce |
| 26. | A Virginia Barbecue | John M. Duncan |
| 27. | Going to Shrewsbury | Sarah Orne Jewett |
| 28. | A Certain Oil Refinery | Theodore Dreiser |
| 29. | “Spiritus Valet” | Thornton Wilder |
| 30. | The Devil and Tom Walker | Washington Irving |
| 31. | Finishing School for Pickets | Howard Zinn |
| 32. | Hop-Frog | Edgar Allan Poe |
| 33. | On Some Mental Effects of the Earthquake | William James |
| 34. | The Flying Fool | Waverly Root |
| 35. | The Brooch
(limited time only—no longer available) | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| 36. | The Nature of Liberty | H. L. Mencken |
| 37. | Kindling | Raymond Carver |
| 38. | Désirée’s Baby | Kate Chopin |
| 39. | You Could Look It Up | James Thurber |
| 40. | The Train | Flannery O'Connor |
| 41. | Baxter’s Procrustes | Charles W. Chesnutt |
| 42. | The Little Room | Madeline Yale Wynne |
| 43. | In Goldman, Sachs We Trust | John Kenneth Galbraith |
| 44. | Artemus Ward on His Visit to Abe Lincoln | Artemus Ward |
| 45. | A Journey | Edith Wharton |
| 46. | Account of the Battle of Monmouth | George Washington |
| 47. | Hunting the Deceitful Turkey | Mark Twain |
| 48. | Success in Entertaining | Ward McAllister |
| 49. | I’ll Be Waiting | Raymond Chandler |
| 50. | All Parrots Speak | Paul Bowles |
| 51. | The Christmas Fireside (for Good Little Boys and Girls) | Mark Twain |
| 52. | Horsefeathers Swathed in Mink | A. J. Liebling |
| 53. | Aunt Cynthy Dallett | Sarah Orne Jewett |
| 54. | Celebration in Charleston | William Howard Russell |
| 55. | What It Means to be Colored in the
Capital of the United States | Mary Church Terrell |
| 56. | Xingu | Edith Wharton |
| 57. | Cobb Fights It Over Again | Irvin S. Cobb |
| 58. | Was It in His Hand? | Elizabeth Bishop |
| 59. | Mon Amie | Randolph Bourne |
| 60. | Remarkable Case of Arrest for Murder | Abraham Lincoln |
| 61. | To Build a Fire | Jack London |
| 62. | Destruction of the Tea in Boston | John Adams |
| 63. | Up the Stairs with Cus D’Amato | Pete Hamill |
| 64. | The Refugee | Jane Rice |
| 65. | The Gray Champion | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 66. | Pitchers and Catchers | Moe Berg |
| 67. | A Wagner Matinée | Willa Cather |
| 68. | A Dog's Tale | Mark Twain |
| 69. | The Morning Walk | Kate Chopin |
| 70. | The Domain of Arnheim | Edgar Allan Poe |
| 71. | The Night We All Had Grippe | Shirley Jackson |
| 72. | The Hossack Murder | Susan Glaspell |
| 73. | Sunday Morning | Wallace Stevens |
| 74. | “This One Is Captain Waskow” | Ernie Pyle |
| 75. | An Experiment in Misery | Stephen Crane |
| 76. | Abraham Lincoln | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| 77. | A Box to Hide In | James Thurber |
| 78. | Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 79. | Immigrant Picnic | Gregory Djanikian |
| 80. | The Eyes of the Panther | Ambrose Bierce |
| 81. | The Union Army Retreats | William Howard Russell |
| 82. | The Striding Place | Gertrude Atherton |
| 83. | Twelve Strangers in the Night | Elizabeth M. Bisgood |
| 84. | Paul Bunyan | John Dos Passos |
| 85. | When I Knew Stephen Crane | Willa Cather |
| 86. | The Ransom of Red Chief | O. Henry |
| 87. | Bill of Fare on the Plains | Annie D. Tallent |
| 88. | The Apostate | Jack London |
| 89. | The Duel | O. Henry |
| 90. | Porcelain and Pink | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 91. | Why Don't You Dance?
(limited time only—no longer available) | Raymond Carver |
| 92. | The Scavengers | Mary Austin |
| 93. | Tomorrow | Eugene O'Neill |
| 94. | Shiftless Little Loafers | Susan Orlean |
| 95. | The Day I Sprouted Wings | J. Herman Banning |
| 96. | Midnight | Jack Snow |
| 97. | Paste | Henry James |
| 98. | A Horseman in the Sky | Ambrose Bierce |
| 99. | Celebrations of Thanksgiving: Cuban Seasonings | Ana Menéndez |
| 100. | Jim Baker’s Blue-Jay Yarn | Mark Twain |
| 101. | The Shadowy Third | Ellen Glasgow |
| 102. | W. L. S. | Theodore Dreiser |
| 103. | A Winter Walk | Henry David Thoreau |
| 104. | The Christmas Dinner | Washington Irving |
| 105. | An English New Year | Henry James |
| 106. | The Ambitious Guest | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 107. | A Negro Tourist in Dixie | Bettye Rice Hughes |
| 108. | Tom's Husband | Sarah Orne Jewett |
| 109. | The Eyes | Edith Wharton |
| 110. | Attack on Fort Donelson | Lew Wallace |
| 111. | Autobiography Written for Campaign | Abraham Lincoln |
| 112. | A Presidential Candidate | Mark Twain |
| 113. | Chefoo, China | Thornton Wilder |
| 114. | Golden Baby | Alice Brown |
| 115. | Where Do You Get that Noise? | Ring Lardner |
| 116. | A Problem | Henry James |
| 117. | Arson Plus | Dashiell Hammett |
| 118. | Story in Harlem Slang | Zora Neale Hurston |
| 119. | After the Winter | Kate Chopin |
| 120. | The Doll | Charles W. Chesnutt |
| 121. | The Fog | Berton Roueché |
| 122. | The Cask of Amontillado | Edgar Allan Poe |
| 123. | Audience Tomorrow: Preview in New Guinea | Elia Kazan |
| 124. | “There is no end to the amusements of Paris” | George Catlin |
| 125. | The Swimmer | John Cheever |
| 126. | “Damn the Torpedoes!” | Helen Lawrenson |
| 127. | The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky | Stephen Crane |
| 128. | “Come into the Roof Garden, Maud” | Djuna Barnes |
| 129. | The Legend of the Two Discreet Statues | Washington Irving |
| 130. | “Our Beleaguered City” | Judith W. McGuire |
| 131. | “It is impossible we should think of Submission” | Benjamin Franklin |
| 132. | The Legend of Monte del Diablo | Bret Harte |
| 133. | The Question of a Feather | Robert Frost |
| 134. | Try and Change the Past | Fritz Leiber |
| 135. | The Art of Seeing Things | John Burroughs |
| 136. | The Garden Lodge | Willa Cather |
| 137. | Feathertop: A Moralized Legend | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 138. | Nowhere to Run | John Schulian |
| 139. | The Untold Lie | Sherwood Anderson |
| 140. | Views of Washington | John Dos Passos |
| 141. | The Fiddler | Herman Melville |
| 142. | A Woman’s Recollections of Antietam | Mary Bedinger Mitchell |
| 143. | The Shell of Sense | Olivia Howard Dunbar |
| 144. | An Hour | Louisa May Alcott |
| 145. | Hetch Hetchy Valley | John Muir |
| 146. | The Man Who Came to Dinner with
George Kaufman Directing | Morton Eustis |
| 147. | Free Fall (from The Man Who Rode the Thunder) | William H. Rankin |
| 148. | In the Zone | Eugene O'Neill |
| 149. | Running for Governor | Mark Twain |
| 150. | An Autumn Holiday | Sarah Orne Jewett |
| 151. | Three Poems | Paul Laurence Dunbar |
| 152. | The Moonstone Mass | Harriet Prescott Spofford |
| 153. | Knight to Move | Fritz Leiber |
| 154. | The Colored Cooper | Clifton Johnson |
| 155. | The Country Doctor | Theodore Dreiser |
| 156. | The Lily-White Boys | William Maxwell |
| 157. | The Jelly-Fish | David H. Keller |
| 158. | The Egg | Sherwood Anderson |
| 159. | A Dream | Anonymous |
| 160. | The Original and Only | Robert Frost |
| 161. | Athénaïse | Kate Chopin |
| 162. | Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln | Frederick Douglass |
| 163. | Washington Resigns His Commission | George Washington & Thomas Mifflin |
| 164. | The Wife of His Youth | Charles W. Chesnutt |
| 165. | Hunting Human Game | Frank Norris |
| 166. | The Ballad of the Brown Girl
(limited time only—no longer available) | Countee Cullen |
| 167. | Certain Things Last | Sherwood Anderson |
| 168. | “Old Ironsides” Captures HMS Guerrière | Moses Smith |
| 169. | Slippery Fingers | Dashiell Hammett |
| 170. | The Lover | Harriet Ann Jacobs |
| 171. | The Tree of Knowledge | Henry James |
| 172. | Natural History, the Forgotten Science | Aldo Leopold |
| 173. | Jim Crow’s Playmates | Red Smith |
| 174. | Bernice Bobs Her Hair | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 175. | Eyewitness: The Police Terror at Birmingham | Len Holt |
| 176. | Peter | Willa Cather |
| 177. | War Stories | Harvey Shapiro |
| 178. | The Yellow Wall Paper | Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
| 179. | Flying—A Dream Come True! | Ida M. Tarbell |
| 180. | Crooked Souls | Dashiell Hammett |
| 181. | My Favorite Murder | Ambrose Bierce |
| 182. | Battle of Gettysburg | Arthur James Lyon Fremantle |
| 183. | The Sentiments of a Lady in New-Jersey | Anonymous |
| 184. | Haircut | Ring Lardner |
| 185. | Petrified Man | Eudora Welty |
| 186. | Letters to Estella | Aldo Leopold |
| 187. | Storm and Shipwreck | James Fenimore Cooper |
| 188. | The Lovely Troubled Daughters of Our Old Crowd | John Updike |
| 189. | The Music of Erich Zann | H. P. Lovecraft |
| 190. | The Young Immigrunts | Ring Lardner |
| 191. | South of the Slot | Jack London |
| 192. | Portrait of an Immortal Soul | H. L. Mencken |
| 193. | “The Nameless Dead” | Kate Cumming |
| 194. | The Strongest Lady in the World | Red Smith |
| 195. | The Life and Death of Vaudeville | Fred Allen |
| 196. | Slavery’s Pleasant Homes | Lydia Maria Francis Child |
| 197. | The Long Voyage Home | Eugene O’Neill |
| 198. | Wild Frank’s Return | Walt Whitman |
| 199. | Unseen—Unfeared | Francis Stevens |
| 200. | Aufenthalt in Rosenheim | Vincent Sheean |
| 201. | Notes on War Experiences | Eddie Rickenbacker |
| 202. | The Stout Gentleman | Washington Irving |
| 203. | John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 204. | No Greater Joy Than to See These Children
Walking in the Anti-Slavery Path | Lucretia Mott |
| 205. | A Gold Slipper | Willa Cather |
| 206. | The Dead Valley | Ralph Adams Cram |
| 207. | A Christmas Story | Katherine Anne Porter |
| 208. | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | James Thurber |
| 209. | A Winter Courtship | Sarah Orne Jewett |
| 210. | Last Summer in Mississippi | Alice Lake |
| 211. | The First Seven Years | Bernard Malamud |
| 212. | The Story of an Hour | Kate Chopin |
| 213. | Making It! | Seymour Krim |
| 214. | Meeting “Father Abraham” | Lois Bryan Adams |
| 215. | Madison Washington | William Wells Brown |
| 216. | Carmen | Ring Lardner |
| 217. | Autres Temps . . . | Edith Wharton |
| 218. | The Birds of Killingworth | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| 219. | The Capture of USS Essex | David G. Farragut |
| 220. | An Itinerant House | Emma Frances Dawson |
| 221. | Shakespeare | William Dean Howells |
| 222. | Idiots First | Bernard Malamud |
| 223. | About Trees | J. Sterling Morton |
| 224. | The Fire and The Cloud | Zora Neale Hurston |
| 225. | The Drunken Sisters | Thornton Wilder |
| 226. | The Armies of the Wilderness | Herman Melville |
| 227. | One Wicked Impulse! | Walt Whitman |
| 228. | The Price of the Harness | Stephen Crane |
| 229. | Transatlantic | Gilbert Seldes |
| 230. | Who? | Algis Budrys |
| 231. | General Macbeth | Mary McCarthy |
| 232. | The Legend of Tchi-Niu | Lafcadio Hearn |
| 233. | An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge | Ambrose Bierce |
| 234. | Tyrants of the Shop | Fanny Fern |
| 235. | How I Went Out to Service | Louisa May Alcott |
| 236. | Our Visit to Richmond | James R. Gilmore |
| 237. | The Middle Years | Henry James |
| 238. | No Room in the Cemetery | Anonymous |
| 239. | Japanese Hamlet | Toshio Mori |
| 240. | “Dear sister, I must leave this house” | Dolley Madison |
| 241. | Storming the Capital | George R. Gleig |
| 242. | A Whistle-Stop School with Big-Time Talent | Jerry Izenberg |
| 243. | Defence of Fort M‘Henry | Francis Scott Key,
with Roger B. Taney |
| 244. | The Ice Palace | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 245. | On Richard Avedon | Truman Capote |
| 246. | Anna’s Whim | Louisa May Alcott |
| 247. | Mother | Sherwood Anderson |
| 248. | Playing Courier | Mark Twain |
| 249. | The Curse of Everard Maundy | Seabury Quinn |
| 250. | The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether | Edgar Allan Poe |
| 251. | Friday Night Tykes | Bryan Curtis |
| 252. | You Can’t Tell a Man by the Song He Sings | Philip Roth |
| 253. | Eating American | Sheila Hibben |
| 254. | The Mourners | Bernard Malamud |
| 255. | Passages in the Life of a Slave Woman | Annie Parker |
| 256. | Union Looters | Mary S. Mallard |
| 257. | Christmas Eve | Washington Irving |
| 258. | “Like a Sea of Blood” | Anonymous (A Kentucky Soldier) |
| 259. | The White Silence | Jack London |
| 260. | The Evicted | Fred Travis |
| 261. | The Ghost of the Gridiron | W. C. Heinz |
| 262. | In Dark New England Days | Sarah Orne Jewett |
| 263. | “The Giant Sufferer” | Gideon Welles |
| 264. | A Matter of Principle | Charles W. Chesnutt |
| 265. | Taste in Music | Virgil Thomson |
| 266. | Selma, Alabama: The Charms of Goodness | Elizabeth Hardwick |
| 267. | The Lightning-Rod Man | Herman Melville |
| 268. | Franklin D. Roosevelt Inaugurated Tomorrow | Moss Hart |
| 269. | His New Mittens | Stephen Crane |
| 270. | The Fall of Richmond | Sallie Brock |
| 271. | The Fulness of Life | Edith Wharton |
| 272. | Lincoln’s Assassination | Elizabeth Keckly |
| 273. | Mare Island and Back | Arthur Miller |
| 274. | Death of a Race Horse | W. C. Heinz |
| 275. | The Morning of the Débût | Anna Cora Mowatt |
| 276. | Lavender with a Difference | James Thurber |
| 277. | Experience of a Chinese Journalist | Wong Chin Foo |
| 278. | Death of Carrier Described | Peggy Hull Deuell |
| 279. | The Man of Adamant | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 280. | Letter to His Old Master | Frederick Douglass |
| 281. | A Psychological Shipwreck | Ambrose Bierce |
| 282. | I Go Adventuring | Helen Keller |
| 283. | Letter from the Dust Bowl | Caroline Henderson |
| 284. | The Special Type | Henry James |
| 285. | Terry Helburn | Frances Parkinson Keyes |
| 286. | Adventure | Sherwood Anderson |
| 287. | Thurgood Marshall and the 14th Amendment | James Poling |
| 288. | A True Patriarch | Theodore Dreiser |
| 289. | A White Heron | Sarah Orne Jewett |
| 290. | The Land | Mary Austin |
| 291. | Pinda:—A True Tale | Maria Weston Chapman |
| 292. | Head and Shoulders | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 293. | The Actual Thing | William Maxwell |
| 294. | The Best Years of His Life | John Ed Bradley |
| 295. | Curfew Must Not Ring To-Night | Rose Hartwick Thorpe |
| 296. | The Greatest Man in the World | James Thurber |
| 297. | Genius Loci | Clark Ashton Smith |
| 298. | How to Cure a Cold | Mark Twain |
| 299. | Kate’s Choice | Louisa May Alcott |
| 300. | The Eating-Houses | George G. Foster |
| 301. | Never Bet the Devil Your Head | Edgar Allan Poe |
| 302. | Ordeal in Levittown | David B. Bittan |
| 303. | Writing a War Story | Edith Wharton |
| 304. | Nature Near Home | John Burroughs |
| 305. | A Pair of Silk Stockings | Kate Chopin |
| 306. | “The Urgent Necessity” | George Washington & John Adams |
| 307. | Henry James at Work | Theodora Bosanquet |
| 308. | The Golden Honeymoon | Ring Lardner |
| 309. | Impostors | James D. McCabe |
| 310. | Told in the Drooling Ward | Jack London |
| 311. | The Death of the Hired Man | Robert Frost |
| 312. | The Adventure of the German Student | Washington Irving |
| 313. | “Remember the Ladies” | Abigail Adams & John Adams |
| 314. | A Curtain of Green
(limited time only—no longer available) | Eudora Welty |
| 315. | The Hiartville Shakespeare Club | Belle Marshall Locke |
| 316. | Trees in Streets and in Parks | Frederick Law Olmsted |
| 317. | The Fight | Stephen Crane |
| 318. | Heroes | Ellen N. La Motte |
| 319. | Somnambulism: A Fragment | Charles Brockden Brown |
| 320. | Spring Day | Amy Lowell |
| 321. | The Kiss | Charles W. Chesnutt |
| 322. | “I’m the Greatest” | Red Smith |
| 323. | The Young Pacifist | Paul Goodman |
| 324. | The Soul of the Great Bell | Lafcadio Hearn |
| 325. | The Declaration of Independence | Abigail Adams |
| 326. | Sisters and Science Fiction | Karl Kroeber |
| 327. | Barney Greengrass | Norman Manea |
| 328. | The Enchanted Bluff | Willa Cather |
| 329. | Save the Redwoods | John Muir |
| 330. | The Deacon’s Masterpiece:
or the Wonderful “One-Hoss-Shay” | Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| 331. | Imaginary Countries | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| 332. | Unlighted Lamps | Sherwood Anderson |
| 333. | Agatha | John O’Hara |
| 334. | A Matter of Freedom | Juanita Nelson |
| 335. | The Village Feudists | Theodore Dreiser |
| 336. | Literacy Tests: Southern Style | Jack H. Pollack |
| 337. | Western Union Boy
(limited time only—no longer available) | Nathanael West |
| 338. | A Sketch from Maryland Life | Caroline W. Healey Dall |
| 339. | Absolute Evil | Julian Hawthorne |
| 340. | My First Lie and How I Got Out of It | Mark Twain |
| 341. | Wunderkind | Carson McCullers |
| 342. | The Tyranny of Pie | George Augustus Sala |
| 343. | The Fifth Planet | Loren Eiseley |
| 344. | “The Worst News That I Have Encountered
in the Last 20 Years” | Robert Hagy |
| 345. | Biography of a Story | Shirley Jackson |
| 346. | Christmas Poem | John O’Hara |
| 347. | Toward Human Unity | Emily Greene Balch |
| 348. | The Angel of the Odd | Edgar Allan Poe |
| 349. | The Pelican | Edith Wharton |
| 350. | The Diary of a Retreat | H. L. Mencken |
| 351. | Fedora | Kate Chopin |
| 352. | The Great Eaters of Georgia | Carson McCullers |
| 353. | East Side: North Africa | Jane Bowles |
| 354. | Death in the School-Room | Walt Whitman |
| 355. | The Birth-mark | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 356. | On the Absurdity of a Bill of Rights | Noah Webster |
| 357. | The Company Is Not Responsible | Mary McCarthy |
| 358. | Dalyrimple Goes Wrong | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 359. | Alone | Ellen N. La Motte |
| 360. | Miss Gunton of Poughkeepsie | Henry James |
| 361. | The Bird Tragedy of Laysan Island | William T. Hornaday |
| 362. | Me and Old Duke | Albert Murray |
| 363. | Four Men in a Cave | Stephen Crane |
| 364. | Lukundoo | Edward Lucas White |
| 365. | My Girls | Louisa May Alcott |
| 366. | Inside the Cages of the Zoo | Ellen Sander |
| 367. | Decoration Day | Sarah Orne Jewett |
| 368. | “Examine Well Your Heart” | Alexander Hamilton |
| 369. | Bombers over London | Anonymous |
| 370. | Chickamauga | Ambrose Bierce |
| 371. | “This Whole Horrible Transaction” | John Quincy Adams |
| 372. | A Walk to Wachusett | Henry David Thoreau |
| 373. | Southern Peace Walk: Two Issues or One? | Barbara Deming |
| 374. | A Stick of Green Candy | Jane Bowles |
| 375. | Eight Miles—Straight Up! | Hawthorne C. Gray |
| 376. | The Day Before the Revolution | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| 377. | Barbed Wire and Brown Skulls | Loren Eiseley |
| 378. | Account of a Hurricane | Alexander Hamilton |
| 379. | Patrimony | Philip Roth |
| 380. | The Unspoiled Reaction | Mary McCarthy |
| 381. | In the North | Edith Wharton |
| 382. | If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox | James Thurber |
| 383. | Je Suis Perdu | Peter Taylor |
| 384. | The Donkey Boy | John Dos Passos |
| 385. | Democracy? | Rupert Trimmingham |
| 386. | Grettir at Thorhall-stead | Frank Norris |
| 387. | The Namesake | Willa Cather |
| 388. | The Lost Cause | Red Smith |
| 389. | Our City Charities | Margaret Fuller |
| 390. | Taming the Bicycle | Mark Twain |
| 391. | Shooting Down a “Hun” | Charles J. Biddle |
| 392. | Thurlow’s Christmas Story | John Kendrick Bangs |
| 393. | Home for Christmas | Carson McCullers |
| 394. | Love of Life | Jack London |
| 395. | “They All Fired at Her” | Cynthia Townsend |
| 396. | A Half-Pint of Old Darling | Wendell Berry |
| 397. | Mark Twain as Our Emissary | George Ade |
| 398. | What the Black Man Wants | Frederick Douglass |
| 399. | Becoming a First Lady | Abigail Adams |
| 400. | Mrs. Spring Fragrance | Edith Maude Eaton |
| 401. | Simple Simon | Ring Lardner |
| 402. | Indiana’s Town of Champions | Edith Roberts |
| 403. | Morning on the Wissahiccon | Edgar Allan Poe |
| 404. | Loneliness | Sherwood Anderson |
| 405. | The Bold Dragoon, or the Adventure of My Grandfather | Washington Irving |
| 406. | Her Letters | Kate Chopin |
| 407. | The Angel That Troubled the Waters | Thornton Wilder |
| 408. | Of Man and the Stream of Time | Rachel Carson |
| 409. | Three-Ten to Yuma | Elmore Leonard |
| 410. | Manifest Destiny U.S.A. | Albert Murray |
| 411. | The Town Poor | Sarah Orne Jewett |
| 412. | The Great Carbuncle | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 413. | Wounded—How It Feels to Be Shot | Floyd Gibbons |
| 414. | The Two Altars; or, Two Pictures in One | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| 415. | White Weeds | Charles W. Chesnutt |
| 416. | Roll Call on the Prairies | Willa Cather |
| 417. | Fly Away, Breath | Wendell Berry |
| 418. | The Work Before Us | Frederick Douglass |
| 419. | Greville Fane | Henry James |
| 420. | Created He Them | Alice Eleanor Jones |
| 421. | Letters from Matamoros | Ulysses S. Grant |
| 422. | Parades and Entertainments | Stephen Crane |
| 423. | My Country | Mary Antin |
| 424. | Three Americans | George Strock and the editors of Life |
| 425. | Benediction | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 426. | “I Am Not Dead” | Ashby Williams |
| 427. | Baby, You Were Great | Kate Wilhelm |
| 428. | Moxon’s Master | Ambrose Bierce |
| 429. | Thesis Turned Broadway | Katherine Dunham |
| 430. | For the Blood Is the Life | F. Marion Crawford |
| 431. | Waiting for the Armistice | Harry S. Truman |
| 432. | The Mission of Jane | Edith Wharton |
| 433. | Apple-Pie | Henry Ward Beecher |
| 434. | Is He Living or Is He Dead? | Mark Twain |
| 435. | I Remember Balanchine | Ruthanna Boris |
| 436. | Space Episode | Leslie Perri |
| 437. | Joey on the Cake Line | John O'Hara |
| 438. | MS. Found in a Bottle | Edgar Allan Poe |
| 439. | The Ordeal of Bobby Cain | George McMillan |
| 440. | The Jest | Dorothy Parker |
| 441. | Ozème’s Holiday | Kate Chopin |
| 442. | Pelt | Carol Emshwiller |
| 443. | “A Very Sad Thing” | Theodore Roosevelt |
| 444. | Harlem | Ann Petry |
| 445. | Some Like Them Cold | Ring Lardner |
| 446. | Carlotta, the Lady Aeronaut | Mary H. Myers |
| 447. | Talk by the Road | John Dos Passos |
| 448. | The Man Baseball Forgot Plays the Hand He’s Dealt | Jane Leavy |
| 449. | The Spectre Bridegroom | Washington Irving |
| 450. | An Interview with Mark Twain | Rudyard Kipling |
| 451. | Brooksmith | Henry James |
| 452. | Working at the Navy Yard | Susan B. Anthony II |
| 453. | Samuel Doyle Riddle | Joe Palmer |
| 454. | Hands | Sherwood Anderson |
| 455. | Great Men’s Sons | Booth Tarkington |
| 456. | The New You | Kit Reed |
| 457. | Memorial Day Address at Suresnes | Woodrow Wilson |
| 458. | The Longest Day Dawns | Cornelius Ryan |
| 459. | “A Death in the Desert” | Willa Cather |
| 460. | The Bouquet | Charles W. Chesnutt |
| 461. | Rip Van Winkle | Washington Irving |
| 462. | “A show of wax-figures” | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 463. | The Empress’s Ring | Nancy Hale |
| 464. | The Need of Money | Booth Tarkington |
| 465. | The Rise | Wendell Berry |
| 466. | Traveler at Forty: Paris! | Theodore Dreiser |
| 467. | The Passing of Sister Barsett | Sarah Orne Jewett |
| 468. | Mr. Sakrison’s Halt | Mildred Clingerman |
| 469. | “The First Successful Trip of an Airship” | A. I. Root |
| 470. | My Robin | Frances Hodgson Burnett |
| 471. | The Earliest Dreams | Nancy Hale |
| 472. | Poetry in Motion | Larry Merchant |
| 473. | Yuki-Onna | Lafcadio Hearn |
| 474. | The Best of Acapella | Lenny Kaye |
| 475. | The Black Stone | Robert E. Howard |
| 476. | Senators Win Title, 4–3 | Grantland Rice |
| 477. | Quiet Days in Malibu | Joan Didion |
| 478. | Expiation | Edith Wharton |
| 479. | Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims | Mark Twain |
| 480. | The Day the Dam Broke | James Thurber |
| 481. | “Miss Grief” | Constance Fenimore Woolson |
| 482. | Christmas Trees | Robert Frost |
| 483. | William Wilson | Edgar Allan Poe |
| 484. | “A Nation of Croakers” | Richard Harvey Cain |
| 485. | The Days of Jig Cook | Djuna Barnes |
| 486. | The Tenth Clew | Dashiell Hammett |
| 487. | Eulogy for Abraham Lincoln | Frederick Douglass |
| 488. | The President in Peril | James Monroe |
| 489. | Solomon | Constance Fenimore Woolson |
| 490. | The Bloody Tragedy of the Fifth of March, 1770 | Joseph Warren |
| 491. | Quick Returns | Ring Lardner |
| 492. | Cavanelle | Kate Chopin |
| 493. | Influenza on a Troopship | Henry A. May |
| 494. | The VW Years | Carolyn Brown |
| 495. | The Night the Bed Fell | James Thurber |
| 496. | New Haven, 1920 | Thornton Wilder |
| 497. | Wild Life about My Cabin | John Burroughs |
| 498. | Those Are as Brothers | Nancy Hale |
| 499. | The After-Season in Rome | Henry James |
| 500. | Luella Miller | Mary Wilkins Freeman |
| 501. | Zigzags of Treachery | Dashiell Hammett |
| 502. | I First Saw the Ruins of Dunkerque | John Fisher |
| 503. | The Assassination of Senator Charles Caldwell | Margaret Ann Caldwell |
| 504. | The Souls of White Folk | W.E.B. Du Bois |
| 505. | Working for an Empress | Ambrose Bierce |
| 506. | Drenched in Light | Zora Neale Hurston |
| 507. | “The natural right of all Men—& their Children” | Lancaster Hill, Peter Bess, Brister Slenser, Prince Hall, et al. |
| 508. | Paul’s Case | Willa Cather |
| 509. | A Veteran Visits the Old Front—Wishes He Had Stayed Away | Ernest Hemingway |
| 510. | The Water Baby | Jack London |
| 511. | A Perfect Moment | Maud Wood Park |
| 512. | The Circus at Denby | Sarah Orne Jewett |
| 513. | The New Englander | Sherwood Anderson |
| 514. | This Side of Paradise? | Heywood Broun |
| 515. | The Miracle of the Lily | Clare Winger Harris |
| 516. | Refugee Procession Is Scene of Horror | Ernest Hemingway |
| 517. | Women in Politics | Fannie Barrier Williams |
| 518. | The Masque of the Red Death | Edgar Allan Poe |
| 519. | Kerfol | Edith Wharton |
| 520. | The Black Dog | Stephen Crane |
| 521. | “The Spirit of party has overpowerd the Spirit of Patriotism” | Abigail Adams |
| 522. | The Poor Devil Author | Washington Irving |
| 523. | Melodrama | Rollin Lynde Hartt |
| 524. | Poor Man’s Pudding and Rich Man’s Crumbs | Herman Melville |
| 525. | The £1,000,000 Bank-Note | Mark Twain |
| 526. | Ira Aldridge | William Wells Brown |
| 527. | “The Destruction of a Free Ballot” | Joseph H. Rainey |
| 528. | Felipa | Constance Fenimore Woolson |
| 529. | A Day with Conrad Green | Ring Lardner |
| 530. | The Last Passenger Pigeon | Gene Stratton-Porter |
| 531. | Positive Obsession | Octavia E. Butler |
| 532. | A Shameful Affair | Kate Chopin |
| 533. | Enjoying the Presidency | Theodore Roosevelt |
| 534. | Spunk | Zora Neale Hurston |
| 535. | Krakatau | Edward O. Wilson |
| 536. | Children Are Bored on Sunday | Jean Stafford |
| 537. | Gertrude Ederle vs. the Channel | W. O. McGeehan |
| 538. | In the Home Stretch | Robert Frost |
| 539. | Baseball as the Bleachers Like It | Charles E. Van Loan |
| 540. | L. A. Noir | Joan Didion |
| 541. | The Real Thing | Henry James |
| 542. | The Killing of Julius Cæsar “Localized” | Mark Twain |
| 543. | The Other Two | Edith Wharton |
| 544. | A Southern Landscape | Elizabeth Spencer |
| 545. | The Murder of John Walthall | Maria Carter |
| 546. | A Retrieved Reformation | O. Henry |
| 547. | The Gutting of Couffignal | Dashiell Hammett |
| 548. | Tickets | Donald Barthelme |
| 549. | Stranger Than Fiction | James Weldon Johnson |
| 550. | The Personal Is Political | Carol Hanisch |
| 551. | Old Flaming Youth | Jean Stafford |
| 552. | The Battle of Long Island | Philip Vickers Fithian |
| 553. | The White Azalea | Elizabeth Spencer |
| 554. | The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife | Ernest Hemingway |
| 555. | Kings Get in Free | Red Smith |
| 556. | The Lady of Little Fishing | Constance Fenimore Woolson |
| 557. | The Recent Tragedy | James Gordon Bennett |
| 558. | An Unfinished Story | O. Henry |
| 559. | Echoes in the City of the Angels | Helen Hunt Jackson |
| 560. | The Lees of Happiness | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 561. | A Magic Kingdom | Edward O. Wilson |
| 562. | The Oval Portrait | Edgar Allan Poe |
| 563. | Miss McEnders | Kate Chopin |
| 564. | John Redding Goes to Sea | Zora Neale Hurston |
| 565. | Miss Mary Pask | Edith Wharton |
| 566. | An Episode of War | Stephen Crane |
| 567. | Yosemite Valley in Flood | John Muir |
| 568. | In a Far Country | Jack London |
| 569. | How I Escaped Being Killed in a Duel | Mark Twain |
| 570. | The Christmas Magazines and the Inevitable Story of the Snowbound Train | Dorothy Parker |
| 571. | Tall Tale Blue Over Mobile Bay in Harlem | Albert Murray |
| 572. | According to Solomon | Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
| 573. | After Henry | Joan Didion |
| 574. | The Experts | W.E.B. Du Bois |
| 575. | The Legend of the Enchanted Soldier | Washington Irving |
| 576. | Orizaba | Edward O. Wilson |
| 577. | Hell Benders, or The Story of a Wayside Tavern | Edmund Pearson |
| 578. | A Modern Lear | Jane Addams |
| 579. | Reconstruction | Frederick Douglass |
| 580. | In Sloane Street | Constance Fenimore Woolson |
| 581. | Winter Dreams | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 582. | The Tarot Witch | Ray Bradbury |
| 583. | Rhythm | Ring Lardner |
| 584. | Mrs. Manstey’s View | Edith Wharton |
| 585. | The School | Donald Barthelme |
| 586. | Eddy Greater | Thornton Wilder |
| 587. | The Eccentric Naturalist | John James Audubon |
| 588. | Shakespeares of 1922 | Lorenz Hart & Morrie Ryskind |
| 589. | Cloudland Revisited: Rock-a-Bye, Viscount, in the Treetop | S. J. Perelman |
| 590. | Is Woman’s Suffrage a Failure? | Ida M. Tarbell |
| 591. | Conscience with Art | O. Henry |
| 592. | Creeping Siamese | Dashiell Hammett |
| 593. | Death of a Pennsylvania Soldier | Walt Whitman |
| 594. | Alla Nazimova | Djuna Barnes |
| 595. | Building a School | Harriet Ann Jacobs & Louisa M. Jacobs |
| 596. | Cat in the Rain | Ernest Hemingway |
| 597. | A Sea Worry | Maxine Hong Kingston |
| 598. | Los Angeles. A Rhapsody | Aldous Huxley |
| 599. | Jimmy Rose | Herman Melville |
| 600. | The Unnatural Mother | Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
| 601. | The Real Right Thing | Henry James |
| 602. | The “Western”: Definition of the Myth | John Williams |
| 603. | Wiser Than a God | Kate Chopin |
| 604. | The Hills of Zion | H. L. Mencken |
| 605. | How to Live on $36,000 a Year | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 606. | Portrait of the Author as a Working Writer | Virginia Hamilton |
| 607. | An Affair of Outposts | Ambrose Bierce |
| 608. | I Have Come to Tell You Something About Slavery | Frederick Douglass |
| 609. | The Emissary | Ray Bradbury |
| 610. | The Giant Wistaria | Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
| 611. | Stories Told by an Artist | Stephen Crane |
| 612. | When It Changed | Joanna Russ |
| 613. | The Business Man | Edgar Allan Poe |
| 614. | Cookery: Meat Department | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| 615. | Eve’s Diary | Mark Twain |
| 616. | A Christmas Party That Prevented a Split in the Church | Margaret Black |
| 617. | The Loudest Voice | Grace Paley |
| 618. | A Klondike Christmas | Jack London |
| 619. | A Scarab in the City of Time | Marta Randall |
| 620. | Courthouse Square Is Authentic Picture of Occupied Town | Kenneth L. Dixon |
| 621. | The Bookkeeper’s Wife | Willa Cather |
| 622. | The Epocha of the Stamp Act | John Adams |
| 623. | A Visit to Avoyelles | Kate Chopin |
| 624. | Lynch Law in All Its Phases | Ida B. Wells |
| 625. | Tommy’s Burglar | O. Henry |
| 626. | If Ever I Should Leave You | Pamela Sargent |
| 627. | Frog Pond | Chelsea Quinn Yarbro |
| 628. | The Landlord | Henry David Thoreau |
| 629. | St. Clair Flats | Constance Fenimore Woolson |
| 630. | Stratford-on-Avon | Washington Irving |
| 631. | A Wind-Storm in the Forests | John Muir |
| 632. | The Colfax Massacre Trial | Levi Nelson & Benjamin Brim |
| 633. | The Silver Crown | Bernard Malamud |
| 634. | His Father’s Son | Edith Wharton |
| 635. | The Bubble | Nancy Hale |
| 636. | The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth | Charles Portis |
| 637. | The Main Death | Dashiell Hammett |
| 638. | “A Horrid, Hellish Dream” | George E. Chamberlin |
| 639. | Declaration of Conscience | Margaret Chase Smith |
| 640. | A Lady from Redhorse | Ambrose Bierce |
| 641. | “Let Slavery Die” | Henry Highland Garnet |
| 642. | Out of Season | Ernest Hemingway |
| 643. | ‘X-ing a Paragrab’ | Edgar Allan Poe |
| 644. | Narrative and Testimony of Sarah M. Grimké | Sarah Moore Grimké |
| 645. | Absolution | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 646. | Secret Paragraphs about My Brother | Adrienne Kennedy |
| 647. | A Game of Vlet | Joanna Russ |
| 648. | War | Jack London |
| 649. | Shingles for the Lord | William Faulkner |
| 650. | Stephen Crane’s Own Story | Stephen Crane |
| 651. | The Petitions of Belinda an African | Belinda Sutton |
| 652. | The Purple Dress | O. Henry |
| 653. | Cannibalism in the Cars | Mark Twain |
| 654. | The Sentimentality of William Tavener | Willa Cather |
| 655. | Christmas Every Day | William Dean Howells |
| 656. | The Big Rock Candy Figgy Pudding Pitfall | Joan Didion |
| 657. | The Martyr | Katherine Anne Porter |
| 658. | Letter to Thomas Jefferson | Benjamin Banneker |
| 659. | Atrophy | Edith Wharton |
| 660. | Insert Flap “A” and Throw Away | S. J. Perelman |
| 661. | A Point at Issue! | Kate Chopin |
| 662. | The Final Struggle | Frederick Douglass |
| 663. | Quoits | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| 664. | My Future As I See It | Helen Keller |
| 665. | It’s an Honor | Jimmy Breslin |
| 666. | Mrs. Fiske on Ibsen the Popular | Alexander Woollcott |
| 667. | Kid’s Strategy Goes Amuck as Jake Doesn’t Die | Ring Lardner |
| 668. | The Romance of Certain Old Clothes | Henry James |
| 669. | Orion Rises on the Dunes | Henry Beston |
| 670. | Colored Men and Women on the Stage | Aida Overton Walker |
| 671. | Magic | Katherine Anne Porter |
| 672. | Suggestions to Detective Story Writers | Dashiell Hammett |
| 673. | The Adventure of the Popkins Family | Washington Irving |
| 674. | An Army with Banners | James Weldon Johnson |
| 675. | Soldiers and Ghosts (“A Baffled Ambuscade” and “Two Military Executions”) | Ambrose Bierce |
| 676. | Across | Amelia Earhart |
| 677. | The Duel: “Once more Adieu” | Alexander Hamilton |
| 678. | In Another Country | Ernest Hemingway |
| 679. | Turned | Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
| 680. | The Rockpile | James Baldwin |
| 681. | The Discovery of Kentucky | Wendell Berry |
| 682. | Holding Up a Train | O. Henry |
| 683. | The Power of Touch | Helen Keller |
| 684. | Love in the Night | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 685. | The Warlord of Saturn’s Moons | Eleanor Arnason |
| 686. | The Federal Elections Bill of 1890 | Thomas E. Miller |
| 687. | The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar | Edgar Allan Poe |
| 688. | The Lover and the Tell-Tale | Stephen Crane |
| 689. | The Wickedest Woman in Larchmont | S. J. Perelman |
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