A delightful anthology of great works by some of Europe's greatest short story writers:

• 1. The Marquise, by George Sand
• 2. The Bundle of Letters, by Maurus Jokai
• 3. The Pistol Shot, by Alexander Pushkin
• 4. The Mad Veteran of Fort Ratonneau, by Ludwig Achim von Arnim
• 5. Twenty-six Men and a Girl, by Maxim Gorky
• 6. Zodomirsky’s Duel, by Alexandre Dumas
• 7. The Mines of Falun, by E. T. A. Hoffmann
• 8. Mademoiselle Fifi, by Guy de Maupassant
• 9. Maestro Niccolo and the Pig, by Gio Sabadino
• 10. The Father, by Björnstjerne Björnson
• 11. Mons. Cassecrouche’s Inspiration, by George Walter Thornbury
• 12. Malachi’s Cove, by Anthony Trollope
• 13. The Judgement of Paris, by Leonard Merrick
• 14. A Queer Night in Paris, by Guy de Maupassant
• 15. Immensee, by Theodor Storm
• 16. The Paradise of Cats, by Emile Zolà
• 17. In the Reign of Terror, by Anatole France
• 18. The Scholar, by Ludwig Tieck
• 19. The Long Exile, by Count Leo Tolstoy
• 20. The Encased Man, by Anton Chekhov
• 21. The Criminal from Lost Honour, by Friedrich Schiller
• 22. The Story of Brave Kasper and Fair Annie, by Clemens Brentano
• 23. The Black Ferry, by John Galt
• 24. The Mummy’s Foot, by Théophile Gautier
• 25. The Clockmaker of Poissy, by Stanley John Weyman
• 26. One Thing Leads to Another, by Stacy Aumonier
• 27. The Roman Road, by Kenneth Grahame
• 28. A Child’s Revenge, by Paul Bourget
• 29. The Honest Thief, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• 30. The Dead, by James Joyce
• 31. The Stone Dragon, by R. Murray Gilchrist
• 32. Story, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe