From the Book - First Cooper Square Press edition.
The Passover guest / Sholom Aleichem --
A passion in the desert / Honore de Balzac --
An evening in spring / Ivan Bunin --
Vanka / Anton Pavlovich Chekhov --
True relation of the apparition of one Mrs. Veal / Daniel Defoe --
Savannah-la-mar / Thomas De Quincey --
The heavenly Christmas tree / Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky --
That evening sun go down / William Faulkner --
The legend of St. Julian the Hospitaller / Gustave Flaubert --
My mother / Andre Gide --
The disabled soldier / Oliver Goldsmith --
The gray champion / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
A tale of olden time / Heinrich Heine --
The snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway --
The history of Krakatuk / E.T.A. Hoffmann --
The stout gentleman / Washington Irving --
The great good place / Henry James --
A country doctor / Franz Kafka --
The beggar-woman of Locarno / Heinrich von Kleist --
The outlaws / Selma Lagerlof --
Two blue birds / D.H. Lawrence --
The massacre of the innocents / Maurice Maeterlinck --
A weary hour / Thomas Mann --
The piazza / Herman Melville --
Birds of passage / Martin Anderson Nexo --
Horse in the moon / Luigi Pirandello --
The imp of the perverse / Edgar Allan Poe --
Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter --
Filial sentiments of a parricide / Marcel Proust --
The undertaker / Alexander Pushkin --
Twilight / Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont --
The stranger / Rainer Maria Rilke --
Letter to a hostage / Antoine de Saint Exupery --
The wall / Jean Paul Sartre --
Mr. Aristotle / Ignazio Silone --
Markheim / Robert Louis Stevenson --
Generous wine / Italo Svevo --
The hungry stones / Rabindranath Tagore --
The three hermits / Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy --
The district doctor / Ivan Turgenev --
A dog's tale / Mark Twain --
Solitude / Miguel de Unamuno --
The duchess and the jeweller / Virginia Woolf --
A father-to-be / Saul Bellow --
Idiots first / Bernard Malamud --
The Vane sisters / Vladimir Nabokov --
Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor.