Unit 1 BREAKFAST John Steinbeck 1
Unit 2 A DAY'S WAIT Ernest Hemingway 19
Unit 3 APRIL SHOWERS Edith Wharton 37
Unit 4 RIP VAN WINKLE Washington Irving 63
Unit 5 THE WIVES OF THE DEAD Nathaniel Hawthorne 93
Unit 6 NINE NEEDLES James Thurber 116
Unit 7 A MYSTERY OF HEROISM Stephen Crane 135
Unit 8 A VISIT OF CHARITY Eudora Welty 165
Unit 9 THE BLACK BALL Ralph Ellison 191
ANSWER KEY 223