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