The world's greatest short stories /.

The celestial omnibus / E.M. Forster -- The nap / Walter de la Mare -- The black mate / Joseph Conrad -- Before the pary / W. Somerset Maugham -- Story of the physician and the Saratoga trunk / R.L. Stevenson -- The lost child / Mulk Raj Anand -- The Buddhist priest's wife / Olive Schreiner -- Taking the veil / Katherine Mansfield -- The necklace / Guy de Maupassant -- The Procurator of Judaea / Anatole France -- Torture by hope / Villiers de L'Isle Adam -- Adam Urbas / Jacob Wasserman -- The invisible collection / Stefan Zweig -- The shirts / Karel C̊apek -- The tale of a child / Josef Bard -- How much land does a man require? / Leo Tolstoy -- The kiss / Anton Chehov [sic] -- Twenty-six men and a girl / Maxim Gorky -- The little mermaid / Hans Christian Andersen -- The honeymoon / Per Hallström -- A Serbian night / V. Blasco Ibañez -- The pot of basil / Giovanni Boccaccio -- Close friends / Luigi Pirandello -- Pomegranate seed / Edith Wharton -- Perfectly independent / Edna Ferber -- A story by Angel Poe / Stephen Vincent Benet -- In another country / Ernest Hemingway.