American 24-Karat Gold

By Yvonne Collioud Sisko, Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, William Faulkner, Ray Bradbury, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Kate Chopin, Jack London

Subjects: Problems, exercises, Mentally ill women, daggers, Crime, English language, Confederate States of America, abbeys, masquerade balls, short story, History, Revenge, Hyperesthesia, Juvenile fiction, freedom, College readers, Supernatural, Gothic fiction, Homicide, Hematidrosis, recluses, American Horror tales, Classic Literature, Horror fiction, Fiction, death, American literature, Horror tales, Murder, hanging, nobility, change, meaning of love, Horror stories, self-fulfilment, gentleman's agreements, Children's fiction, Union, nonlinear narrative, civil war, Reading, Report writing, short stories, Rhetoric, Horror, Paranormal fiction, Juvenile audience, allegory, Fountain of youth (Legendary place), shrouds, tradition, selfhood, American Short stories, American fiction, Crime fiction, first-person narrative, American Civil War, Detective and mystery stories, plagues

Description: Ripe figs / Kate Chopin -- A worn path / Eudora Welty -- Yoruba / Migene Gonzalez-Wippler -- The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber -- [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) / Edgar Allen Poe -- There will come soft rains / Ray Bradbury -- Bone girl / Joseph Bruchac -- [An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge) / Ambrose Bierce -- Strong temptations-strategic movements-the innocents beguiled / Mark Twain -- [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- To build a fire / Jack London -- Salvation / Langston Hughes -- The lady or the tiger? / Frank Stockton -- No name woman / Maxine Hong Kingston -- Marlene's adventures / Anita Endrezze -- Good country people / Flannery O'Connor -- [The story of an hour](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078864W) / Kate Chopin -- Gifts of the magi / O. Henry -- The ransom of Red Chief / O. Henry -- The wonderful old gentleman / Dorothy Parker -- Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston -- [Dr. Heidegger's experiment](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455515W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- [A rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W) / William Faulkner -- [Masque of the Red Death ](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- The bell-tower / Herman Melville.