From the Book - Rev. ed., 1st Ballantine Books ed.
The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe
The jewels / Guy de Maupassant
Gooseberries / Anton Chekhov
The tree of knowledge / Henry James
A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway
The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence
Bliss / Katherine Mansfield
Little Herr Friedemann / Thomas Mann
Sophistication / Sherwood Anderson
The story of my dovecot / Isaac Babel
The devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benét
A rose for Emily / William Faulkner
The metamorphosis (part I) / Franz Kafka
The wall / Jean-Paul Sartre
Of this time, of that place / Lionel Trilling
The lottery / Shirley Jackson
The ledge / Lawrence Sargent Hall.