Includes: The fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe; Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne; Mademoiselle Fifi / Guy De Maupassant; The Sire de Malétroit's door / Robert Louis Stevenson; The kiss / Anton Chekhov; The man who would be king / Rudyard Kipling; The open boat / Stephen Crane; The lagoon / Joseph Conrad; Mother / Sherwood Anderson; The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence; Clay / James Joyce; Her first ball / Katherine Mansfield; The Devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benét; The colonel's lady / Somerset Maugham; Flight / John Steinbeck ; Spotted horses / William Faulkner; The catbird seat / James Thurber and Petrified man / Eudora Welty,