Author Description

Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) / Edgar Allan Poe The lightning-rod man / Herman Melville The diamond lens / Fitzjames O'Brien The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte [Damned Thing](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20084265W) / Ambrose Bierce The turn of the screw / Henry James The Hiltons' holiday / Sarah Orne Jewett The gift of the Magi / O. Henry The moving finger / Edith Wharton The open boat / Stephen Crane Lou, the prophet / Willa Cather The men of Forty Mile / Jack London Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald [A rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W)/ William Faulkner Big two-hearted river / Ernest Hemingway Flight / John Steinbeck