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

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.