Sarah Orne Jewett, “The Circus at Denby “
Jack London, “The Water Baby”
Willa Cather, “Paul’s Case”
Ernest Hemingway, “A Veteran Visits the Old Front—Wishes He Had Stayed Away”
Lancaster Hill, Peter Bess, Brister Slenser, Prince Hall, et al. — “The natural right of all Men—& their Children”
Ambrose Bierce, “Working for an Empress”
W.E.B. Du Bois, “The Souls of White Folk”
Margaret Ann Caldwell, “The Assassination of Senator Charles Caldwell”
John Fisher, “I First Saw the Ruins of Dunkerque”
Dashiell Hammett, “Zigzags of Treachery”
Mary Wilkins Freeman, “Luella Miller”
Henry James, “The After-Season in Rome”
Nancy Hale, “Those Are as Brothers”
Shirley Jackson, “The Night We All Had Grippe”
John Burroughs, “Wild Life about My Cabin”
James Thurber, “The Night the Bed Fell”