1．Rip Van Winkle(Washington Irving) 1
2．The Cask of Amontillado(Edgar Allan Poe) 17
3．The Minister's Black Veil(Nathaniel Hawthorne) 25
4．The Story of an Hour(Kate Chopin) 40
5．The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County(Mark Twain) 44
6．The Cop and the Anthem(O.Henry) 52
7．The House of Mapuhi(Jack London) 60
8．The Open Boat(Stephen Crane) 83
9．Nigger Jeff(Thoedore Dreiser) 108
10．Death in the Woods(Sherwood Anderson) 129
11．The Jilting of Granny Weatherall(Katherine Anne Porter) 143
12．The Snows of Kilimanjaro(Ernest Hemingway) 154
13．Babylon Revisited(F.Scott Fitzgerald) 180
14．A Rose for Emily(William Faulkner) 202
15．Flight(John Steinbeck) 213
16．The Magic Barrel(Bernard Malamud) 232
17．The Man Who Saw the Flood(Richard Wright) 251
18．The Swimmer(John Cheever) 258