Contents:

• A.V. Laider by Max Beerbohm
• The Other Wife by Colette
• The Facts of Life by Somerset Maugham
• Dusky Ruth by A.E. Coppard
• The Dead Man by Horacio Quiroga
• In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka
• Odour of Chrysanthemums by D.H. Lawrence
• The Fly by Katherine Mansfield
• He by Katherine Anne Porter
• Thirst by Ivo Andric
• My First Goose by Isaac Babel
• The Greatest Man in the World by James Thurber
• The Piano by Aníbal Monteiro Machado
• Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• That Evening Sun by William Faulkner
• Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Luis Borges
• Mysterious Kôr by Elizabeth Bowen
• First Love by Vladimir Nabokov
• My Old Man by Ernest Hemingway
• The Door by E. B. White
• Lovers of the Lake by Sean O'Faolian
• The Camberwell Beauty by V. S. Pritchett
• Men by Kay Boyle
• A Cap for Steve by Morley Callaghan
• The Drunkard by Frank O'Connor
• Cheap in August by Graham Greene
• The Dead Fiddler by Isaac Bashevis Singer
• Flight by John O'Hara
• The Patented Gate and the Mean Hamburger by Robert Penn Warren
• The End of the World by Dino Buzzati
• Death of a Traveling Salesman by Eudora Welty
• The Five-Forty-Eight by John Cheever
• The Living by Mary Lavin
• The Vertical Ladder by William Sansom
• Medal from Jerusalem by Irwin Shaw
• The Southern Thruway by Julio Cortázar
• The Jewbird by Bernard Malamud
• A Silver Dish by Saul Bellow
• The Interior Castle by Jean Stafford
• Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland by Carson McCullers
• The Gift of the Prodigal by Peter Taylor
• One Off the Short List by Doris Lessing
• The Supper by Tadeusz Borowski
• Going Ashore by Mavis Gallant
• Letter from His Father by Nadine Gordimer
• Miriam by Truman Capote
• Three Million Yen by Yukio Mishima
• The Artifical Nigger by Flannery O'Connor
• Nikishka's Secrets by Yuri Kazakov
• Death Constant Beyond Love by Gabriel García Márquez
• The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick
• A Complicated Nature by William Trevor
• The Hitchhiking Game by Milan Kundera
• Game by Donald Barthelme
• Bardon Bus by Alice Munro
• Pigeon Feathers by John Updike
• Eli, the Fanatic by Philip Roth
• How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again by Joyce Carol Oates
• The Man from Mars by Margaret Atwood
• A Small, Good Thing by Raymond Carver
• Weekend by Ann Beattie
• The Schreuderspitze by Mark Helprin