One of the best: Guy de Maupassant's "Boule de Suife"

An early story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, looking forward to his masterpiece novel, The Great Gatsby

Can a man be put on trial for his own murder? Saki's "The Lost Sanjak."

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's classic story, "A New England Nun"

Enter Raffles. The beginning adventure of E. W. Hornung's famous gentleman thief.

The daydreams of Ephraim Deacon and his friend Phineas Doolittle, who plan to corner the pie market, are examined by the ever-good-humored Ellis Parker Butler.

Rafael Sabatini offers a tale of the 18th century adventurer Casanova in "Casanova's Alibi."

An early piece by Thomas Mann, who would go on to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature: “The Child Prodigy”

“Lobo, the King of Currumpaw,” the first story of Ernest Thompson Seton’s book, Wild Animals I have Known.

Two by Saki: The Open Door, Esmé