A.

CANONICAL AUTHORS IN THE PHILIPPINES AND THEIR MASTERPIECES

1. The Bread of Salt by NVM Gonzales – Jocy Marie

2. The Little Marmoset and Bonsai by Edith Tiempo
3. The Woman who has Tow Navels by Nick Joaquin
4. My Brother’s Peculiar Chicken by Alejandro Roces
5. The Mats by Francisco Arcellana - Marycel
6. Footnote to Youth by Jose Garcia Villa
7. The Monkey and the Turtle by Virgilio S. Almario - Mylene
8. How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife by Manuel Arguilla - Reynaldo

B. GREAT AMERICAN SHORT STORIES

FIRST COLLECTION PUBLISHED AT AMERICAN LITERATURE

1. The Gift of the Magi (1905) by O. Henry - Ruvelyn

2. The Little Match Girl (1845) by Hans Christian Andersen – Honey Love
3. To Build a Fire by jack London (1908) by Jack London
4. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1890, 1891) by Ambrose Bierce
5. A Dark Brown Dog (1893 published 1901) by Stephen Crane - Rowelyn
6. The Monkey’s Paw (1902) by W.W. Jacobs - Ana
7. The Cask of Amontillado (1846) by Edgar Allan Poe – Novy Joy
8. Eve’s Diary (1906) by Mark Twain - Allwen
9. The Story of an Hour (1894, 1895) by Kate Chopin – Maria Claudia
10. The Luck of Roaring Camp (1868) by Bret Harte
11. Regret (1897) by Kate Chopin
12. The Skylight Room (1906) by O. Henry
13. The Horseman in the Sky by Ambrose Bierce
14. The Legend of Sleeping Hollow (1820) by Washington Irving
15. The Cactus (1882) by O. Henry – Chris Arnilyn
16. The Tell-tale Heart (1843) by Edgar Allan Poe - Mechelle
17. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Country (1865) by Mark Twain
18. Scarlet Stockings (1869) by Louisa May Alcott
19. An Angel in Disguise (1851) by T.S. Arthur
20. Bartleby, the Scrivener (1856) by Herman Melville
21. The Purloined Letter (1844) by Edgar Allan Poe
22. The Jury of Her Peers (1917) by Susan Glaspell
23. On the Gull’s Road (1908) by Willa Cather
24. The Lottery (1948) by Shirley Jackson - Jean
25. Thank You, M’am (1958) by Langston Hughes - Kyle
26. The Split Cherry Tree (1939) by Jesse Stuart
27. The Cat (1901) by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - Reah
28. The Lady or the Tiger? (18882) by Frank Stockton - Jack
29. The Night Came Slowly (1895) by kate Chopin - Merasol