Triumph of the Egg (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

In the humorous tale “The Egg,” a man gives up farming to accommodate his wife’s ambitions for him. This 1921 collection includes “The Dumb Man,” “I Want to Know Why,” “Unlighted Lamps,” “Senility,” “The Man in the Brown Coat,” “Brothers,” “The Door of the Trap,” “The New Englander,” “War,” and others.