International in scope, these 49 short stories are united by shared inventiveness in storytelling and exceptional literary talent Forty-nine short stories, selected for their richness of detail, accurate depictions of human passion, and international scope, fill this collection. Introduction The Passover Guest 1(6) Sholom Aleichem A Passion in the Desert 7(13) Honore De Balzac An Evening in Spring 20(14) Ivan Bunin Vanka 34(5) Anton Pavlovich Chekhov True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal 39(9) Daniel Defoe Savannah-la-mar 48(3) Thomas De Quincey The Heavenly Christmas Tree 51(5) Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky That Evening Sun Go Down 56(17) William Faulkner The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaller 73(26) Gustave Flaubert My Mother 99(4) Andre Gide The Disabled Soldier 103(5) Oliver Goldsmith The Gray Champion 108(8) Nathaniel Hawthorne A Tale of Olden Time 116(12) Heinrich Heine The Snows of Kilimanjaro 128(24) Ernest Hemingway The History of Krakatuk 152(12) E. T. A. Hoffmann The Stout Gentleman 164(10) Washington Irving The Great Good Place 174(25) Henry James Araby 199(6) James Joyce A Country Doctor 205(6) Franz Kafka The Beggar-Woman of Locarno 211(3) Heinrich Von Kleist The Outlaws 214(17) Selma Lagerlof Two Blue Birds 231(15) D. H. Lawrence Benediction 246(20) Lu Hsun The Massacre of the Innocents 266(10) Maurice Maeterlinck A Weary Hour 276(8) Thomas Mann The Piazza 284(14) Herman Melville Birds of Passage 298(23) Martin Anderson Nexo Horse in the Moon 321(7) Luigi Pirandello The Imp of the Perverse 328(6) Edgar Allan Poe Flowering Judas 334(13) Katherine Anne Porter Filial Sentiments of a Parricide 347(9) Marcel Proust The Undertaker 356(8) Alexander Pushkin Twilight 364(4) Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont The Stranger 368(4) Rainer Maria Rilke Letter to a Hostage 372(15) Antoine De Saint Exupery The Wall 387(19) Jean-Paul Sartre Mr. Aristotle 406(11) Igazio Silone Markheim 417(16) Robert Louis Stevenson Generous Wine 433(16) Italo Svevo The Hungry Stones 449(12) Rabindranath Tagore The Three Hermits 461(7) Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy The District Doctor 468(10) Ivan Turgenev A Dog's Tale 478(10) Mark Twain Solitude 488(8) Miguel De Unamuno The Duchess and the Jeweller 496(7) Virginia Woolf A Father-To-Be 503(11) Saul Bellow Idiots First 514(10) Bernard Malamud The Vane Sisters 524(14) Vladimir Nabokov Everything That Rises Must Converge 538 Flannery O'connor