by Alphonse Daudet, Frank R. Stockton, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sarah Orne Jewett, Edgar Allan Poe, Bret Harte, Guy de Maupassant, Thomas Hardy, O. Henry, Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Willa Cather, Лев Толстой, Edward Everett Hale, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Wilkie Collins, Kate Chopin, Антон Павлович Чехов
Theme. Death of the Dauphin / Alphonse Daudet Lady or the tiger? / Frank Stockton Artist of the beautiful / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Setting. White heron / Sarah Orne Jewett [Pit and the Pendulum](ht…