The specter bridegroom (1820) / Washington Irving Young Goodman Brown (1835) / Nathaniel Hawthorne The gold bug (1843) / Edgar Allan Poe Bartleby the Scrivener (1853) / Herman Melville Miss Asphyxia (1869) / Harriet Beecher Stowe The Iliad of Sandy Bar (1873) / Bret Harte Who was she? (1874 ) / Bayard Taylor Grit (1877) / Rose Terry Cooke An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1890) / Ambrose Bierce The return of a private (1890) / Hamlin Garland A New England nun (1891) / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman The real thing (1892) / Henry James The yellow wallpaper (1892) / Charlotte Perkins Gilman The flight of Betsey Lane (1893) / Sarah Orne Jewett La grande demoiselle (1893) / Grace Elizabeth King The war widow (1894) / Harold Frederic Madame Célestin's divorce (1894) / Kate Chopin The blue hotel (1898) / Stephen Crane A journey (1899) / Edith Wharton The man that corrupted Hadleyburg (1900) / Mark Twain All gold canyon (1905) / Jack London The rajah of Bungpore (1905) / F. Hopkinson Smith Nobody sick, nobody poor (1907) / Zona Gale One thousand dollars (1908) / O. Henry "Queer" (1919) / Sherwood Anderson Up in Michigan (1921) / Ernest Hemingway Great lady on a white horse (1925) / John Dos Passos The king of the cats (1929) / Stephen Vincent Benét Neighbour Rosicky (1930) / Willa Cather Turnabout (1932) / William Faulkner The evening's at seven (1935) / James Thurber The long way out (1937) / F. Scott Fitzgerald Ever fall in love with a midget? (1938) / William Saroyan