Contents:

• Preface by Stephen Graham
• The Three Girdles by Vassily Zhukovsky
• The Pistol-Shot by Alexander Pushkin
• The Post-Master by Alexander Pushkin
• The Cloak by Nicholas Gogol
• The Night of Christmas Eve by Nicholas Gogol
• The Song of Love Triumphant by Ivan Turgenief
• The Dream by Ivan Turgenief
• Bezhin Meadow by Ivan Turgenief by Alexander Afanasief
• Death and the Soldier by Alexander Afanasief
• The Grand Inquisitor by Fedor Dostoievsky
• A Gentle Spirit by Fedor Dostoievsky
• Father Sergius by Leo Tolstoy
• Where Love Is, God Is by Leo Tolstoy
• The Three Hermits by Leo Tolstoy
• The Sentry by Nicholas Leskov
• The Archive of Countess D—— by Alexis Apukhtine
• The Two Hermits by Vladimir Solovyof
• Makar’s Dream by Vladimir Korolenko
• Four Days by Vsevolod Garshin
• The Crimson Flower by Vsevolod Garshin
• A Specialist by Alexander Ertel
• A Greedy Peasant by Alexander Ertel
• Dushechka by Anton Chekhov
• On the Way by Anton Chekhov
• Rothschild’s Fiddle by Anton Chekhov
• Turandina by Fedor Sologub (Teternikof)
• The Herald of the Beast by Fedor Sologub (Teternikof)
• Adventures of a Cobble-stone by Fedor Sologub (Teternikof)
• Equality by Fedor Sologub (Teternikof)
• Bound Over by Eugene Chirikof
• The Magician by Eugene Chirikof
• How Hassan Lost His Trousers by Vlasy Doroshevitch
• Twenty-six and One by Maxim Gorky
• Creatures That Once Were Men by Maxim Gorky
• Psyche by Alexander Kuprin
• Tempting Providence by Alexander Kuprin
• The Song and the Dance by Alexander Kuprin
• Mechanical Justice by Alexander Kuprin
• Never-ending Spring by Ivan Bunin
• Sunstroke by Ivan Bunin
• The Little Angel by Leonide Andreyef
• Rhea Silvia by Valery Brusof
• The Marble Bust by Valery Brusof
• Without Cherry Blossom by Pantaleimon Romanof
• His Majesty, Kneeb Piter Komondor by Boris Pilniak
• Life and Adventures of Matvey Pavlitchenko by Isaac Babel
• An Evening of Culture by Michael Zoschenko
• Diphtheria by Gleb Alexeyef
• The Unexpected Meeting by A. Okulof
• “Things” Valentine Kataev