Almos' A Man (Richard Wright)
Dave, a black teenage farm worker believes that owning a gun is a mark of maturity. Practicing with the gun in the fields, he accidentally kills Mr. Hawkin's mule. 51 min
Bernice Bobs Her Hair (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Transformed from a reticent "ugly duckling" into a successful, sought-after vamp by her manipulative cousin Marjorie, Bernice wins the hearts of all Marjorie's suitors. 49 min
Barn Burning (William Faulkner)
An adolescent boy in post-Civil War Mississippi must reconcile his innate sense of justice and his loyalty to his father while driven to an act with consequences that alter his life. 40 min.
The Blue Hotel (Stephen Crane)
In the 1880's a stranger arrives in a small Nebraska town. In the course of a fateful card game he demonstrates the complicity of each person in his own fate. 55 min
The Displaced Person (Flannery O'Connor)
A Polish refugee family on a Georgia farm in the late 1940's. The disruptions wrought by the refugee family's entrance into this self-contained world eventually bring its members together in an act of tragic complicity. 58 min
The Golden Honeymoon (Ring Lardner)
When Charlie and Lucy Tate take a winter vacation in Florida in the 1920's, they encounter Lucy's suitor of fifty years past. 52 min
The Greatest Man In The World (James Thurber)
When an illiterate lout manages to become the first man to fly solo nonstop around the world, the highest government officials will stop at nothing to make the man into a hero. 51 min
I'm A Fool (Sherwood Thurber)
A young man from Ohio, serving an apprenticeship at a race track, tells a lie to a beautiful woman in hopes that his exaggeration will impress her. 38 min
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall (Katherine Anne Porter)
On the last day of her life, a proud matriarch summons up for evaluation the successes and failures of her years. 57 min
Pigeon Feathers (John Updike)
From the pen of Pulitzer Prize winning author John Updike, comes the story of a young man's search through the questions of life and death, and the wondrous discovery of living. 45 min
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The Jolly Corner (Henry James)
An expatriated American who fled from the Civil War, returns to New York thirty-five years later to pursue the identity that would have been his, had he remained. 53 min
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (Mark Twain)
A mysterious stranger who was slighted by the people of Hadleyburg reappears on the scene with a scheme to disprove the town's reputation of being "the most honest and upright." 42 min
Paul's Case (Willa Cather)
Rejecting the dreariness of his school environment, a young man steals money from his employer to gain entry to a world of glamour and refinement. 52 min
Rappaccini's Daughter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
In 18th century Italy, a young scholar falls in love with a beautiful but forbidden young woman in a strange garden. 57 min
The Revolt of Mother (Mary E. Wilkins Freeman)
Set against the rustic backdrop of farming life in 1890 New England, this poignant story brings us two hardworking people of the land beautifully portrayed by Academy Award nominated actress Amy Madigan. 60 min
The Sky Is Gray (Ernest Gaines)
In rural Louisiana in the 1940's a young black boy journeys with his mother and is exposed to a microcosm of black and white society where he absorbs valuable lessons of pride, charity and dignity. 46 min
Pigeon Feathers (John Updike)
The story of a young man's search through the questions of life and death, and the wondrous discovery of living. 45 min
*The Music School (John Updike)
Aspects and implications of religion, technology, violence, and social change all emerge in vivid images--as a writer struggles to find a focus to his life.
*Parker Adderson, Philosopher (Ambrose Bierce)
This story of confrontation between a captured Union spy (Adderson) and the general of a battered Confederate army reflects the nature of man's struggle with power and death. 69 min
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Soldier's Home (Ernest Hemingway)
After serving as a soldier in World War I, Harold Krebs returns to Kansas. He struggles with a pervasive sense of alienation from his townspeople and family. 41 min
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