The lightening-rod man / Herman Melville -- One of the missing / Ambrose Bierce -- The leopard man's story / Jack London -- A pair of silk stockings / Kate Chopin -- Tennessee's partner / Bret Harte -- The new catacomb / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- My watch / Mark Twain -- The widow's protest / Mark Twain -- Small fry / Anton Chekhov -- An ideal family / Kate Mansfield -- A painful case / James Joyce -- The road from Colonus / E.M. Forster -- The man with the golden brain / Alphonse Daudet -- The necklace / Guy de Maupassant -- The philosopher in the apple orchard / Anthony Hope -- Dalyrimple goes wrong / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The diamond mine / Willa Cather -- Morella / Edgar Allan Poe -- Monkey nuts / D.H. Lawrence -- The portrait / Edith Wharton -- Silhouettes / Jerome K. Jerome -- The voice of the city / O. Henry.