Contents:

• The Kiss by Anton Chekhov
• Her First Ball by Katherine Mansfield
• Araby by James Joyce
• The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad
• The Infant Prodigy by Thomas Mann
• The Horse Dealer’s Daughter by D. H. Lawrence
• The Colonel’s Lady by W. Somerset Maugham
• The Wall by Jean-Paul Sartre
• The Adulterous Woman by Albert Camus
• Jackals and Arabs by Franz Kafka
• Sorrow-Acre by Isak Dinesen
• In the Basement by Isaac Babel
• Bitter Honeymoon by Alberto Moravia
• The Last Judgement by Karel Čapek
• Gimpel the Fool by Isaac Bashevis Singer
• War by Luigi Pirandello
• A World Ends by Wolfgang Hildesheimer
• Journey Through the Night by Jakov Lind
• The New Apartment by Heinz Huber
• Murke’s Collected Silences by Heinrich Böll
• Gogol’s Wife by Tomasso Landolfi
• Autumn in the Oak Woods by Yuri Kazakov
• Isaac Starbuck by Alan Sillitoe
• First Confession by Frank O’Connor
• The Great Wave by Mary Lavin