Title: Classic Short Stories
Description: 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](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W) / Edgar Allan Poe
Outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte --
Plot.
Piece of string / Guy de Maupassant
To please his wife / Thomas Hardy
Cop and the anthem / O. Henry --
Point of view. 
£1,000,000 bank note / Mark Twain
Horseman in the sky / Ambrose Bierce
Paul's case / Willa Cather --
Character.
God sees the truth, but waits / Leo Tolstoy
Man without a country / Edward Everett Hale
Louisa / Mary Wilkins Freeman --
Tone.
Fatal cradle / Wilkie Collins
[Story of an hour](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078864W) / Kate Chopin
Work of art / Anton Chekhov
Subjects: Short stories, American fiction, American Horror tales, American literature, American Short stories, Children's fiction, fear, Fiction, horror, Horror stories, pendulums, Spanish Inquisition, freedom, selfhood, self-fulfillment, meaning of love, short story
Places: Toledo, Mallard residence
People: Father Time, Louise Mallard, Brently Mallard, Josephine, Richards
Time periods: 19th century