A delightful anthology of great works by some of Europe's greatest short story writers:

• 1. "The Marquise", by George Sand
• 2. "The Bundle of Letters", by Maurus Jokai
• 3. "The Pistol Shot", by Alexander Pushkin
• 4. "The Mad Veteran of Fort Ratonneau", by Ludwig Achim von Arnim
• 5. "Twenty-six Men and a Girl", by Maxim Gorky
• 6. "Zodomirsky’s Duel", by Alexandre Dumas
• 7. "The Mines of Falun", by E. T. A. Hoffmann
• 8. "Mademoiselle Fifi", by Guy de Maupassant
• 9."Maestro Niccolo and the Pig", by Gio Sabadino
• 10. "The Father", by Björnstjerne Björnson
• 11. "Mons. Cassecrouche’s Inspiration", by George Walter Thornbury
• 12. "Malachi’s Cove", by Anthony Trollope
• 13. "The Judgement of Paris", by Leonard Merrick
• 14. "A Queer Night in Paris", by Guy de Maupassant
• 15. "Immensee", by Theodor Storm
• 16. "The Paradise of Cats", by Emile Zolà
• 17. "In the Reign of Terror", by Anatole France
• 18. "The Scholar", by Ludwig Tieck
• 19. "The Long Exile", by Count Leo Tolstoy
• 20. "The Encased Man", by Anton Chekhov
• 21. "The Criminal from Lost Honour", by Friedrich Schiller
• 22. "The Story of Brave Kasper and Fair Annie", by Clemens Brentano
• 23. "The Black Ferry", by John Galt
• 24. "The Mummy’s Foot", by Théophile Gautier
• 25. "The Clockmaker of Poissy", by Stanley John Weyman
• 26. "One Thing Leads to Another", by Stacy Aumonier
• 27. "The Roman Road", by Kenneth Grahame
• 28. "A Child’s Revenge", by Paul Bourget
• 29. "The Honest Thief", by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• 30. "The Dead", by James Joyce
• 31. "The Stone Dragon", by R. Murray Gilchrist
• 32. "Story", by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe