The killers / Ernest Hemingway -- The devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benet -- Big blonde / Dorothy Parker -- Paul's case / Willa Cather -- Seeds / Sherwood Anderson -- Bliss / Katherine Mansfield -- Disorder and early sorrow / Thomas Mann -- Rain / W. Somerset Maugham -- Haircut / Ring Lardner -- The gentleman from San Francisco / Ivan Bunin -- Tobermory / Saki (H.H. Munro) -- The monkey's paw / W.W. Jacobs -- A municipal report / O. Henry-- The darling / Anton P. Chekhov -- A lodging for the night / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The necklace / Guy de Maupassant -- The procurator of Judea / Anatole France -- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain -- The luck of roaring camp / Bret Harte -- God sees the truth, but waits / Leo N. Tolstoi -- The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe -- A passion in the desert / Honore de Balzac.