“Henry James at Work,” Theodora Bosanquet

“The Urgent Necessity,” George Washington and John Adams

“A Pair of Silk Stockings,” Kate Chopin

“Nature Near Home,” John Burroughs

“Writing a War Story,” Edith Wharton

“Ordeal in Levittown,” David B. Bittan

“Never Bet the Devil Your Head,” Edgar Allan Poe

Library of America’s Top 10 Story of the Week Selections of 2015

“The Eating-Houses,” George G. Foster

“The Greatest Man in the World,” James Thurber

“Genius Loci,” Clark Ashton Smith

“How to Cure a Cold,” Mark Twain

“Kate’s Choice,” Louisa May Alcott