“Harvard Oration,” John Quincy Adams

“Cornelius Johnson, Office-Seeker,” Paul Laurence Dunbar

“The Magnolia of Lake Pontchartrain,” Margaret Fuller

“Flowering Judas,” Katherine Anne Porter

“The Grist of the Gods,” John Burroughs

“The American Volunteer Motor-Ambulance Corps in France,” Henry James

“The Evacuation of Boston,” John Bowater

“Something I’ll Tell You Tuesday,” John Guare

“On His Hands,” John O’Hara

“The Warlord of Saturn’s Moons,” Eleanor Arnason

“The Upturned Face,” Stephen Crane

“The Ship Ahoy,” Ursula K. Le Guin

“Let Me Feel Your Pulse,” O. Henry

“A Mayor and His People,” Theodore Dreiser

“Now I Lay Me,” Ernest Hemingway

“Dolly: An Idyl of the Levee,” Lafcadio Hearn