Here are seven engaging stories from master American writers of the 19th century. They vary from an unusual Ambrose Bierce tale of a family encounter in the Civil War to a reflective moment in the life of a woman without children, forced to look after children, told by Kate Chopin. Humour and human drama is here, as well as an elegiac description of an eclipse by James Fenimore Cooper. Read with sensitivity and skill by Garrick Hagon and Liza Ross.