Includes indexes

bk. 1. The gift of the Magi / O. Henry -- Love of life / Jack London -- A cub-pilot's education / Mark Twain -- The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- Of the coming of John / W.E.B. Du Bois -- The lady, or the tiger? / Frank R. Stockton -- How I went to the mines / Bret Harte

bk. 2. The story of an hour / Kate Chopin -- The romance of a busy broker / O. Henry -- The ingrate / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell -- The whale hunt / Herman Melville -- Paste / Henry James -- The lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser

[bk. 3.] A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett -- The cask of amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe -- April showers / Edith Wharton -- Rip van Winkle / Washington Irving -- A day's wait / Ernest Hemingway -- A mystery of heroism / Stephen Crane -- Hope deferred / Alice Dunbar-Nelson