The Classic Stories: Edgar Allan Poe’s Ms. Found in a Bottle, Bret Harte’s The Outcasts of Poker Flat, Sherwood Anderson’s Death in the Woods, Stephen Vincent Bene't’s By the Waters of Babylon. The Great Writers: Melville, James, Dreiser, Faulkner, Hemingway, Steinbeck, McCullers. The Little-Known Masterpieces: Edith Wharton’s The Dilettante, Finley Peter Dunne’s Mr. Dooley on the Popularity of Fireman, Charles M. Flandrau’s A Dead Issue, James Reid Parker’s The Archimandrite's Niece.