| Indroduction | |
| A. Wedding without misicians - Sholem Aleichem | 1 |
| He swung and he missed - Nelson Algren | 5 |
| Senor Payroll - William E. Barrett | 12 |
| Houseparty - Walter Bernstein | 16 |
| How light belief bringeth damage - Bidpai | 18 |
| A psychological shipwreck - Ambrose Bierce | 20 |
| The father - Björnstjerne Björnson | 24 |
| Neifile's story - Boccaccio | 27 |
| I see you never - Ray Bradbury | 29 |
| The lottery ticket - Ventura Garcia Calderón | 32 |
| Daughter - Erskine Caldwell | 35 |
| A wicked boy - Anton Cheekhov | 40 |
| Luck - Samuel Clemens | 42 |
| The chaser - John Collier | 46 |
| The upturned face - Stephen Crane | 49 |
| A game of billiards - Alphonse Daudet | 53 |
| Fear - Rhys Davies | 57 |
| The riddle - Walter de la Mare | 61 |
| The jewels of M. Lantin - Guy de Maupassant | 65 |
| The heavenly christmas tree - Fyodor Dostoevsky | 71 |
| The ghosts - Lord Dunsany | 75 |
| The scoop - James T. Farrell | 79 |
| The bedchamber mystery - C. S. Forester | 82 |
| Mr. Andrews - E. M. Forster | 86 |
| The test - Angelica Gibbs | 90 |
| Truth and consequences - Brendan Gill | 93 |
| The disabled soldier - Oliver Goldsmith | 97 |
| Virtuoso - Herbert Goldstone | 101 |
| Her lover - Maxim Gorky | 107 |
| Proff positive - Graham Greene | 113 |
| The butterfly - James Hanley | 116 |
| Absent-mindedness in a parish choir - Thomas Hardy | 120 |
| The hollow of the three hills - Nathaniel Hawthorne | 123 |
| A question of blood - Ernest Haycox | 127 |
| The boy who drew cats - Lafcadio Hearn | 131 |
| The lost soul - Ben Hecht | 134 |
| The exact science of matrimony - O. Henry | 138 |
| Fard - Aldous Huxley | 144 |
| The wife - Washington Irving | 149 |
| Charles - Shirley Jackson | 156 |
| Then came the legions - Mackinlay Kantor | 160 |
| If not higher - Isaac Loeb Perez | 164 |
| The wild duck's nest - Michael Mclaverty | 167 |
| A toast to captain jerk - Russell Maloney | 171 |
| Germans at meat - Kahterine Mansfield | 174 |
| Born of man and woman - Richard Matheson | 177 |
| The ant and the Grasshopper - Somerset Maugham | 180 |
| The guardian angel - andré Maurois | 184 |
| The fiddler - Herman Melville | 189 |
| The pearl of Toledo - Prosper Mérimée | 195 |
| The sniper - Liam O'Flaherty | 197 |
| The crime on calle de la persequida - Palacio Valdés | 201 |
| How the devil lost his poncho - Ricardo Palma | 206 |
| The standard of living - Dorothy Parker | 209 |
| The oval portrait - Edgar Allan Poe | 214 |
| Three letters...and a footnote - Horacio Quiroga | 218 |
| A dangerous guy indeed - Damon Runyon | 221 |
| Reginald's choir treat - Saki | 224 |
| The kiss - William Sansom | 227 |
| The shepherd's doughter - William Saroyan | 230 |
| The foreigner - Francis Steegmuller | 232 |
| Tom Varnish - Richard Steele | 236 |
| Over the hill - John Steinbeck | 238 |
| An attempt af reform - August Strindberg | 240 |
| The three hermits - Leo Tolstoy | 243 |
| The doctor's heroism - Villiers de L'isle-Adam | 249 |
| The beggar-woman of locarno - Heinrich von Kleist | 253 |
| The Phoenix - Sylvia Townsend Warner | 255 |
| Slipping Beauty - Jeroma Weidman | 259 |
| The hour of letdown - E. B. White | 263 |
| Moonlight sonata - Alexander Woollcott | 267 |
| God - Eugene Ivanovich Zamiatin | 270 |
| How grandpa came into the money - Elsa Zantner | 272 |
| The three veterans - Leane Zugsmith | 275 |
| Kong at the seaside - Arnold Zweig | 278 |
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