Contents:

• Introduction by A. Alvarez
• The Frog by Mór Jókai
• The Gentry by Kálmán Mikszáth
• A Chicken and a Woman by Sándor Bródy
• A Painter in the Village by Géza Gárdonyi
• The Divine Garden by Dezső Szomory
• Death and the Doctor by Jenő Heltai
• The Last Cigar at the Grey Arab by Gyula Krúdy
• Everything is Good at the End of the World by Zsigmond Móricz
• The Gymnasts by Lajos Nagy
• Omelette à Woburn by Dezső Kosztolányi
• The Music Makers by Géza Csáth
• Abdominal Operation by Frigyes Karinthy
• The Gigolo by Sándor Hunyady
• Ambition and Hilarity by Tibor Déry
• ’Hohem’ and ‘Freier’ by József Lengyel
• The Organ by Károly Pap
• Madelon the Dog by Antal Szerb
• Fear by Endre Illés
• Skating by Gyula Illyés
• A House on an Empty Lot by Andor Endre Gelléri
• At Cockcrow by Magda Szabó
• The Birthday of Emil Dukich by Ferenc Karinthy
• BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES