Edited by Larry Carnell
Table of Contents:
Preface
A-Z Index
1. Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener
2. Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
3. Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
4. H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
5. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
6. Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
7. Mark Twain, The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
8. Guy de Maupassant, The Horla
9. Kate Chopin, The Awakening
10. Rudyard Kipling, The Man Who Would Be King
11. James Joyce, The Dead
12. Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome
13. Ivan Turgenev, First Love
14. Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murat
15. Anton Chekhov, In the Ravine
16. George Eliot, The Lifted Veil
17. Stephen Crane, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
18. Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
19. Alexander Pushkin, The Queen of Spades
20. Voltaire, Candide
21. Nikolai Gogol, The Squabble
22. Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
23. Gustave Flaubert, A Simple Soul
24. Fyodor Dostoevsky, A Gentle Creature 25. Jules Verne, In The Year 2889