Contents:

• The Seven Who Were Hanged by Leonid Andreev
• Antonov Apples by Ivan Bunin
• The Gentleman from San Francisco by Ivan Bunin
• The Dreams of Chang by Ivan Bunin
• At the Circus by Alexander Kuprin
• Emerald by Alexander Kuprin
• The Bracelet of Garnets by Alexander Kuprin
• Sanin [synopsis and chapters XXXVIII-XXXIX] by Mikhail Artsybashev
• One Autumn by Maxim Gorky
• Chelkashby Maxim Gorky
• Twenty-six Men and a Girl (a prose poem)by Maxim Gorky