Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves (please don’t call him a butler; he is a gentleman’s personal gentleman) are in New York, somewhat on the lam from Aunt Agatha. But he can’t avoid her entirely when an imposing friend of hers shows up. Join the fun in P. G. Wodehouse’s “Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest.”

Cracking codes, fathoming a code maker. John Buchan’s “The Loathly Opposite.”

A compact story, taking on themes of guilt, atonement, and redemption.

In celebration of the return of spring, two short pieces by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Odell Shepard.

Just for the fun of it, one of P. G. Wodehouse’s beloved characters, Stanley Featherstonehaugh Urkidge, as always scheming to make a buck or a pound without actually working.

The second, concluding part of Nikolai Gogol’s “The Overcoat.”

An intriguing story that admits of various interpretations, the Ukrainian author Nikolai Gogol’s 1842 story “The Overcoat” influenced generations of writers.

St. Patrick’s Day is at hand, and so a couple of Irish fairy tales, collected by W. B. Yeats.

In A. J. Raffles, the amateur cracksman, E. W. Hornung created one of the mythic figures of modern crime fiction. Here is “A Trap to Catch a Cracksman.”

“The Last Class,” Alphonse Daudet’s elegiac story of the lives of ordinary people changing against the background of war with a foreign power.