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The two brothers (Anpu and Bata) / Anonymous --
Setna and the magic book / Anonymous --
Eumæus' : talk / Homer --
The country mouse and the town mouse / Æsop --
King Rhampsinitus and the thief / Herodotus --
Phineus and the harpies / Apollonius of Rhodes --
The robbers of Egypt / Heliodorus --
Horatius at the bridge / Livy --
Orpheus and the Eurydice / Ovid --
The shipwreck of Simonides / Phædrus --
The matron of Ephesus / Petronius --
The haunted house / Pliny the Younger --
The dream / Apuleius --
The book of Ruth (Old Testament) --
The history of Susanna (The Apocrypha) --
The prodigal son (New Testament) --
The raising of Lazarus (New Testament) --
Rabbi Akiva (The Talmud) --
The Jewish mother (The Talmud) --
The ass in the lion's skin (Jataka) --
The dove and the crow (Panchatantra) --
The story of Devadatta / Somadeva --
The jackal (Hitopadesa) --
Jamshid and Zuhak / Firdawsi --
The sailor and the pearl merchant / Anonymous --
Khaled and Djaida / Al-Asmal --
Abou Hassan the wag (Thousand and one nights) --
Grendel's raid (Beowulf) --
Esyllt and Sabrina / Geoffrey of Monmouth --
The humbling of Jovinian (Gesta Romanorum) --
Lludd and Llevelys (The Mabinogion) --
Launcelot's tourney / Sir Thomas Malory --
Roberto's tale / Robert Greene --
True relation of the apparition of one Mrs. Veal / Daniel Defoe --
The story of an heir / Joseph Addison --
The disabled soldier / Oliver Goldsmith --
The bridal of Janet Dalrymple / Sir Walter Scott --
The white trout / Samuel Lover --
The queer client / Charles Dickens --
A terribly strange bed / Wilkie Collins --
Squire Petrick's lady / Thomas Hardy --
Thrawn Janet / Robert Louis Stevenson --
The selfish giant / Oscar Wilde --
Julia Cahill's curse / George Moore --
That brute Simmons / Arthur Morrison.
The lay of Hildebrand / Anonymous --
Siegfried and Kriemhild (The lay of the Nibelungs) --
The coming of Gandin / Gottfried von Strassburg --
Bruin the bear & Reynard the fox (Reynard the fox) --
Eulenspiegel and the merchant (Eulenspiegel) --
Doctor Faust and the usurer (The history of Dr. J. Faust) --
The sick wife / Christian Gellert --
Little Briar-Rose / The brothers Grimm --
The story of Serapion / E.T.A. Hoffmann --
The legend of the dance / Gottfried Keller --
The fury / Paul Heyse --
The triple warning / Arthur Schnitzler --
A New-Year's Eve confession / Hermann Sudermann --
The divided horsecloth / Bernier --
The priest and the mulberries / Anonymous --
The lay of the two lovers / Marie de France --
The pious lady and the gray friar / Marguerite de Navarre --
He who married a dumb wife ; The roast-meat seller / François Rabelais --
Little Red Riding-Hood / Charles Perrault --
The four friends / Jean de Lafontaine --
Memnon the philosopher / Voltaire --
Lausus and Lydia / J.F. Marmontel --
The mysterious mansion / Honoré de Balzac --
Mateo Falcone / Prosper Mérimée --
The mummy's foot / Théophile Gautier --
The torture of hope / Villiers de L'Isle Adam --
The last lesson / Alphonse Daudet --
The fairy Amoureuse / Émile Zola --
The substitute / François Coppée --
Our lady's juggler / Anatole France --
The necklace / Guy de Maupassant --
The bell of Atri (The hundred ancient tales) --
The falcon / Giovanni Boccaccio --
Galgano / Ser Giovanni --
The two ambassadors / Franco Sacchetti --
The cavalier of Toledo / Masuccio (Guardato) --
Belphagor / Niccolo Macchiavelli --
A king in disguise / Matteo Bandello --
The friar of Novara / Agnolo Firenzuola --
The Greek merchant / Giovanbattista Giraldi Cinthio --
The Venetian silk-mercer / Carlo Gozzi. Cavalleria rusticana / Giovanni Verga --
The peasant's will / Antonio Fogazzaro --
Mendicant melody / Edmondo de Amicis --
Lulu's triumph / Matilde Serao --
The hero / Gabriele d'Annunzio --
Two miracles / Grazia Deledda --
The miracle of the Jew (Chronicle of the Cid) --
The son and his friends / Juan Manuel --
How Lazaro served a bulero / Diego Hurtado de Mendoza --
Guzman and my lord Cardinal / Mateo Alemán --
Rinconete and Cortadillo / Miguel Cervantes --
The tall woman / Pedro Antonio de Alarcón --
Maese Perez, the organist / Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer --
Adios, Cordera! / Leopoldo Alas --
Story of Ming-Y ; Fickle widow (Marvelous tales) --
The virtuous daughter-in-law / Pu Sung-Ling --
The forty-seven ronins [ronin] / Anonymous --
The pier / Mori Ogwai --
A domestic animal / Shimazaki Toson --
The higher the flight the lower the fall / Jacob Cats --
The story of Saidjah / Eduard Douwes Dekker --
Grandfather's birthday present / Herman Heijermans --
The invisible wound / Karoly Kisfaludi --
A ball / Maurus Jokai --
The green fly / Kalman Mikszath --
The silver hilt / Ferenc Molnar --
The snow storm / Alexander Pushkin --
St. John's eve / Nikolai Gogol --
The district doctor / Ivan Turgenev --
The Christmas tree and the wedding / Feodor Dostoievsky [Dostoyevsky] --
The long exile / Leo Tolstoy --
The old bell-ringer / Vladimir Korolenko --
The signal / Vsevolod Garshin --
The bet / Anton Chekhov --
One autumn night / Maxim Gorky --
Silence / Leonid Andreyev. The lighthouse keeper of Aspinwall / Henryk Sienkiewicz --
The human telegraph / Boleslav Prus --
Forebodings / Stefan Zeromski --
A woman's wrath / Isaac Loeb Peretz --
The Passover guest / Sholom Aleichem --
A picnic / S. Libin --
The Kaddish / Abraham Raisin --
Abandoned / Sholom Asch --
In the storm / David Pinski --
Baldr's bale / Snorri Sturluson --
Regin's tale (Volsunga saga) --
The shepherdess and the sweep / Hans Christian Andersen --
Henrik and Rosalie / Meyer Aron Goldschmidt --
Two worlds / Jens Peter Jacobsen --
Smith who could not get into hell / Peter Christen Asbjörnsen and Jörgen Moe --
The father / Björnstjerne Björnson --
Skobelef / Johan Bojer --
Love and bread / August Strindberg --
The eclipse / Slema Lagerlöf --
The falcon / Per Hallström --
The mysterious picture / Charles de Coster --
The massacre of the innocents / Maurice Maeterlinck --
The soul of Veere / Camille Lemonnier --
One night / Emile Verhaeren --
The neighbor / Antun Gustav Matos --
Children and old folk / Ivan Cankar --
At the well / Laza K. Lazarevich --
The vampire / Jan Neruda --
Foltyn's drum / Svatopluk Cech --
The priest's tale / Demetrios Bikelas --
The Easter torch / I.L. Caragiale --
What Vasile saw / Marie, Queen of Roumania --
The commissioner's Christmas / Dimitr Ivanov --
Chivalry / Ricardo Fernández-García --
The attendant's confession / J.M. Machado de Assis --
The legend of Pygmalion / Ventura García-Calderón --
Creole democracy / Rufíno Blanco-Fombóna --
The deaf satyr / Rubén Darío --
The specter bridegroom / Washington Irving --
Mrs. Bullfrog / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
Tell-tale Heart / Edgar Allan Poe --
Journalism in Tennessee / Mark Twain --
The man and the snake / Ambrose Bierce --
The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte --
The story in it / Henry James --
King Solomon of Kentucky / James Lane Allen --
Miss Tempy's watchers / Sarah Orne Jewett --
A letter and a paragraph / Henry Cuyler Bunner --
Supply and demand / O. Henry --
A dark-brown dog / Stephen Crane --
The lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser --
Sophistication / Sherwood Anderson --
A Wagner matinée / Willa Cather --
A brown woman / James Branch Cabell.

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Table of Contents

ANCIENT EGYPT
INTRODUCTION
THE TWO BROTHERS (ANPU AND
SETNA AND THE MAGIC BOOK—Anoqymous
ANCIENT GREECE
INTRODUCTION
EUMAEUS' TALE—Homer
THE COUNTRY MOUSE AND THE TOWN vovsE—Æsop .
RING RHAMPSINITUS AND THE THtEF—Herodotus .
PHINECS AND THE HARPIES—APolloniuJ of Rhodes
THE ROBBERS OF EGYrr—I-Ieliodorus
ANCIENT ROME
txrRODUCTION
HORATIVS AT THE BRIDGE—Livy
ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE—Ovid
THE SHIPWRECK OF srM0NIDF.s—PhÆdrus
THE MATRON OF EPHEscs—Petronius
•rHE HAUNTED HovsE—PIiqy the Younger
THE DREAM—APuleius
BIBLICAL LITERATURE
INTRODUCTION
THE BOOK OF RÜTH—Old Testament .
THE HISTORY OF SUSANNA—The Apocrypha
THE PRODIGAL soN—New Testament .
THE RAISING OF LAZARUS—New Testament
RABBI AKIVA—The Talmud
THE JEWISH MOTHER—The Talmud
ANCIENT INDIA
INTRODUCÄION
THE ASS IN THE LION's sKIN—Jataka
THE DOVE AND THE cR0W—Panchatantra .
THE STORY OF DF.VADATTA—Somadeva .
THE JAcKAL—Hitopadesa
PERSIA
INTRODUCTION
JAMSHID AND WHAK—Firdawsi
THE SAILOR AND THE PEARL MERCHANT—Anonymous
ARABIA
INTRODUCTION
KHALED AND .
ABOV HASSAN THE wAG—Thousand and One Nights
GREAT BRITAIN
INTRODUCTION
GRENDEL's RAID—BeowuIf
ESYLLT AND SABRINA—Geoffrey of Monmouth
THE HUMBLING OF JOVINIAN—Gesta Romanorum
LL.UDD AND LLEVELYS—ThC Mabinogion
LAUNCELOT's TOURNEY—Sir Thomas Malory
ROBERTO's TALE—Robert Greene
TRUE RELATION OF THE APPARITION OF ONE MRS. VEAL—
Daniel Defoe
THE STORY OF AN HEIR—joseph Addison
THE DISABLED soLDIER—Oliver Goldsmith
THE BRIDAL OF JANET DALRYMPLE—Sir Walter Scott
THE WHrrE TROUT—SamueI Lover
THE QUEER CLIENT—CharIes Dickens
A TERRIBLY STRANGE BED—Wi/kie Collins
SQUIRE PETRICK'S LADY—Thomas Hardy
THRAWN JANET—Robert Louis Stevenson
THE SELFISH GIANT—Oscar Wilde .
JULIA CAHILL'S cvRSE—George Moore .
THAT BRUTE Morrison
GERMANY
INTRODUCTION
THE LAY OF HILDEBRAND—Anoqvmous
SIEGFRIED AND KRIEMHJLD-—The Lay of the Nibelungs
THE COMING OF GANDtN—Gottfried von Strassburg
BRUIN THE BEAR AND REYNARD THE Fox—Reynard the
Fox .
EULENSPIEGEL AND THE MERcHANT—Eulenspiegel
DOCTOR FAUST AND THE USURER—Thc History of Dr. J.
Faust
THE SICK WIFE—Christian Gellert
LITTLE BRIAR-ROSE—The Brothers Grimm
THE STORY OF SERAPION—E. T. A. Hoffmann
A LEGEND OF THE DANcE—Gottfried Keller
THE FURY—Paul Heyse
THE TRIPLE WARNING—Arthur Schnitzler
A NEW-YEAR'S EVE coNFEss10N—Hermann Sudermarn .
FRANCE
INTRODUCTION
THE DIVIDED H0RSECLOTH—Bernier
THE PRIEST AND THE MULBERRIES—Anonymous
THE LAY OF THE TWO LOVERS-—Marit de France
THE PIOUS LADY AND THE GRAY FRIAR—Marguerite de
Navarre
HE WHO MARRIED A DUMB WTFE—Franpis Rabelais
THE ROAST-MEAT SELLER—FranfOis Rabelais
LITTLE RED RIDING-HOOry—Charles Perrault
THE FOUR FRIENDS—jean de La Fontaine
MEMNON THE PHILOSOPHER—VOItaire .
LAVSUS AND LYDIA—I. F. Marmontel -
THE MYSTERIOUS MANSION—Honoré de Balzac
MATEO FALCONE—Prosper Mérimée
THE MUMMY'S Gautier
THE TORTURE OF nope—Villiers de L' Isle Adam .
THE LAST LF.ss0N—Alphonse Daudet
THE FAIRY AMOUREUSE—ÉmiIe Zola
THE SUBSTITUTE—Francois Coppée .
OUR LADY'S JUGGLER—AnatoIe France .
THE NECKLACE—GY de Maupassant
ITALY
INTRODUCTION
THE BELL OF ATRI—The Hundred Ancient Talcs
THE FAtß0N—Giovanni Boccaccio .
GALGANO—Ser Giovanni
THE TWO AMBASSADORS—Ftanco Sacchetti
THE CAVALIER OF T0LEDO-—Masuccio (Guardato)
BELPHAGOR—JViccolo Macchiavelli
A KING IN DISGUBE—Matteo Bandello
THE FRIAR OF NOVARA—AgnoIo Firenzuola .
THE GREEK MERCHANT—Giooanbattista Giraldi Cinthio
THE VENETIAN SILK-MERCER—Carlo Gozzi
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA—Giovanni Verga
THE PEASANT'S WILL—Antonio Fogazzaro
MENDICANT MELODY—Edmondo de Amicis
LULU's TRIUMPH—MatiIde Sergo
THE HERO—GabrieIe d'Annunzio
TWO Deledda
SPAIN
INTRODUCTION
THE MIRACLE OF THE JEW—Chronicle of the Cid
THE SON AND HIS FRIENDS—juan Manuel
HOW LAZARO SERVED A BULER0—Diego Hurtado
Mendoza
GUZMAN AND MY LORD CARDINAL—Mateo Alemån
RLNCONETE AND CORTADILLO-—Miguel Cervantes .
THE TALL WOMAN—PedT0 Antonio de Alarc6n
MAESE PÉREZ, THE ORGANIST—GUStaVO Adolfo Be;cquer
ADIOS, Alas .
CHINA
INTRODUCTION
THE STORY OF MING-Y—MarveIous Tales
A FICKLE wmow—Marvc10us Tales
JAPAN
INTRODUCTION
THE FORTY-SEVEN RÖNINS—An0Lvmous
THE PIER—Mori Ogwai
HUNGARY
INTRODUCTION
THE INVISIBLE wot'ND—Karoly Kisfaludi
A BALL—Mauru.v Jokai
RUSSIA
INTRODUCTION
THE SNOW STORM—AIexander Pushkin
ST. JOHN's EW—NikoIai Gogol
THE DISTRICT DOCTOR—Ivan Turgenev .
de
THE CHRISTMAS TREE AND THE WEDDING—Ftodor Dos-
THE LONG EXILE—Leo Tolstoy
THE OLD BELL-RINGER—VIadimir Korolenko
THE SIGNAL—Vsevolod Garshin
THE BET—Anton Chekhov
ONE AUTUMN NIGHT—Maxim Gorky
SILENCE—Leonid Anåtyv
POLAND
INTRODUCTION
THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER OF ASPtNWALL—Hevk Sien-
THE HUMAN TELEGRAPH—BOIeslav Prus
FOREBODINGS—Stefan Zerom.fki
THE SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES
INTRODUCTION
Iceland
BALDR'S BALE—Snorri Sturluson
REGIN'S TALE—VOImnga Saga
Denmark
THE SHEPHERDESS AND THE Christian An-
dersen .
HENRIK AND ROSALIE—M Aron
Jens Peter
WORLDS—
NORWAY
THE SMITH WHO COULD NOT GET INTO HELL—Peter Chris-
ten Asbjörnsen and jorgen Moe
THE FATHER— Björnstjerne Björnson
SKOBELEF—Johan Bojer.
SWEDEN
LOVE AND BREAD—Ægust Strindberg
TRE ECLIPSE—Selma Lagerlöf
BELGIUM
INTRODUCTION
THE MYSTERIOUS pwrvRE—Char/es de Coster
THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS—Maurice Maeterlinck
TIJE SOUL OF VEERE—CamilIe Lemonnier
ONE NIGHT—F.miIe rerhaeren
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
rxrRODUCT10N
THE VAMPIRE—jan Neruda
FOLTfN's DRUM—SvatoPluk (lech .
SOUTH AMERICA
INTRODUCTION
Costa Rica
CHIVALRY—Ricatdo Fernåndez-Garcia
Brazil
THE ATTENDANT'S CONFESSION—I. M. Machado dt Assis
Peru
THE LEGEND OF PYGMALION—Ventura Garcia-Cal&rån
UNITED STATES
INTRODUCTION
MRS. BU'LLFROG—Nathanitl Hawthorne
[THE TELL-TALE HEART](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W)—Edgar Allan Poe
JOURNALISM IN TENNESSEE—Mark Twain
THE MAN AND THE SNAKE—Ambrose Bierce ,
THE OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT—Bret Hdrte
THE STORY IN IT—Henry James
SUPPLY AND DEMAND—O. Henry
THE LOST PHOEBE—Theodore Dreiser
SOPHISTICATION—Sherwood Anderson
A WAGNER MATINÉE—WiIIa Cather
A BROWN WOMAN—james Branch Cabell

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