Rip Van Winkle&Washington Irving 1
Young Goodman Brown&Nathaniel Hawthorne 16
The Fall of the House of Usher&Edgar Allan Poe 29
Bartleby,the Scrivener:A Tale of Wall Street&Herman Melville 49
A Dog's Tale&Mark Twain 81
Editha&William Dean Howells 92
The Outcasts of Poker Flat&Bret Harte 107
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge&Ambrose Bierce 118
The Death of the Lion&Henry James 128
A White Heron&Sarah Orne Jewett 162
The Story of an Hour&Kate Chopin 174
A New England Nun&Mary Eleanor Wikins Freeman 179
The Yellow Wallpaper&Charlotte Perkins Gilman 192
The Other Two&Edith Wharton 206
The Gift of the Magi&OHenry 223
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky&Stephen Crane 230
The Egg&Sherwood Anderson 241
The Law of Life&Jack London 254
The Use of Force&William Carlos Williams 263
Sweat&Zora Neale Husrton 268
Christmas Day in the Morning&Pearl S.Buck 281
Babylon Revisited&F.Scott Fitzgerald 286
A Rose for Emily&William Faulkner 306
A Day's WaitE&Ernest Hemingway 317
The Chrysanthemums&John Steinbeck 322
Gimpel the Fool&Isaac Bashevis Singer 334
Split Cherry Tree&Jesse Stuart 348
Why I Live at the P.O&Eudora Welty 361
The Lottery&Shirley Jackson 373
A Tree,a Rock,a Cloud&Carson Mccullers 382
A Good Man Is Hard to Find&Flannery O'Connor 391
The City of Churches&Donald Barthelme 408
The Bath&Raymond Carver 413
No Name Women&Maxine Hong Kingston 421
Everyday Use&Alice Walker 434
Wedding Night&Tom Hawkins 443
Two Kinds&Amy Tan 446