Edited by David Young and Keith Hollaman

Contents:

• The Nose by Nikolai Gogol
• The Porcelain Doll by Leo Tolstoy
• The Wardrobe by Thomas Mann
• A Tale of the Cavalry by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
• The Jolly Corner by Henry James
• "The Death of Chamberlain Brigge" (excerpt from The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge) by Rainer Maria Rilke
• "The Hand" (excerpt from The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge) by Rainer Marie Rilke
• Odour of Chrysanthemums by D. H. Lawrence
• The Blind Man by D. H. Lawrence
• A Country Doctor by Franz Kafka
• The Bucket Rider by Franz Kafka
• The Sin of Jesus by Isaac Babel
• Lyompa by Yuri Olesha
• excerpt from The Egyptian Stamp by Osip Emilievich Mandelstam
• "The Great Frost" (excerpt from Orlando) by Virginia Woolf
• The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz
• The Visit to the Museum by Vladimir Nabokov
• New Islands by María Luisa Bombal
• excerpt from In the Land of Magic by Henri Michaux
• The Old People by William Faulkner
• Moon Lake by Eudora Welty
• The Piano by Aníbal Monteiro Machado
• The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges
• The South by Jorge Luis Borges
• My Life with the Wave by Octavio Paz
• The Enormous Radio by John Cheever
• The Guest by Vjekoslav Kaleb
• Gogol's Wife by Tommaso Landolfi
• Major Aranda's Hand by Alfonso Reyes
• Axolotl by Julio Cortázar
• The Night Face Up by Julio Cortázar
• Journey to the Seed by Alejo Carpentier
• The Smallest Woman in the World by Clarice Lispector
• Aura by Carlos Fuentes
• In the Village by Elizabeth Bishop
• The Distance of the Moon by Italo Calvino
• excerpt from by Italo Calvino
• A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel García Márquez
• Blacamán the Good, Vendor of Miracles by Gabriel García Márquez
• Cloud Maker by Robert Escarpit
• Views of My Father Weeping by Donald Barthelme
• "The Angels" (excerpt from The Book of Laughter and Forgetting) by Milan Kundera