Contains: The Reeve's Tale / Geoffrey Chaucer --
The Apparition of Mrs. Veal / Daniel Defoe --
The Wedding of Jenny Distaff / Richard Steele --
A Story of an Heir / Joseph Addison --
The Mysterious Bride / James Hogg --
The Tapestried Chamber or The Lady in the Sacque / Sir Walter Scott --
The Half-Brothers / Elizabeth Gaskell --
Snobs and Marriage / William Makepeace Thackeray --
The Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn / Charles Dickens --
The White Cat of Drumgunniol / J.S. Le Fanu --
Returning Home / Anthony Trollope --
The Dead Hand / Wilkie Collins --
A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four / Thomas Hardy --
The Story of a Piebald Horse / W.H. Hudson --
A Lodging for the Night / Robert Louis Stevenson --
The Birthday of the Infanta / Oscar Wilde --
Il Conde / Joseph Conrad --
The New Catacomb / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle --
Mary Postgate / Rudyard Kipling --
Mr. Brisher's Treasure / H.G. Wells --
The Broken Boot / John Galsworthy --
Tobermory / Saki (H.H. Munro) --
The Creatures / Walter de la Mare --
The Colonel's Lady / W. Somerset Maugham --
Arabesque- The Mouse / A.E. Coppard --
The Boarding House / James Moyce --
The Duchess and the Jeweller / Virginia Woolf --
Bachelors / Hugh Walpole --
The Prussian Officer / D.H. Lawrence --
New Women / Joyce Cary --
Bliss / Katherine Mansfield --
Idenborough / Sylvia Townsend Warner --
Fard / Aldous Huxley --
Spring Sowing / Liam O'Flaherty --
Hand in Glove / Elizabeth Bowen --
Sinners / Sean O'Faolain --
The Spree / V.S. Pritchett --
A Wedding-Dress / Morley Callaghan --
Judas / Frank O'Connor --
A Drink in the Passage / Alan Paton --
Mortmain / Graham Greene --
The Spring Hat / H.E. Bates --
Under the Banyan Tree / R.K. Narayan --
The Old Man / Daphne du Maurier --
Eterna / Mary Lavin --
Willy-Wagtails by Moonlight / Patrick White --
The True Story / Dylan Thomas --
Royal Jelly / Roald Dahl --
The Fathers' Daughters / Muriel Spark --
Two Potters / Doris Lessing --
The Confirmation Suit / Brendan Behan --
Native Country / Nadine Gordimer --
Prizes / Janet Frame --
Timoshenko / Iain Crichton Smith --
The Ballroom of Romance / William Trevor --
A Day in the Country / Dan Jacobson --
Weekend / Shirley Hazzard --
Prue / Alice Munro --
Legend for a Painting / Julia O'Faolain --
Threnody / Fay Weldon --
Cords / Edna O'Brien --
Rape Fantasies / Margaret Atwood --
The Courtship of Mr. Lyon / Angela Carter --
Secrets / Bernard MacLaverty --
Night in Tunisia / Neil Jordan.