Chess Story
by Stefan Zweig | 
Amateurs
by Donald Barthelme | 
The Royal Game and Other Stories
by Stefan Zweig | 
Reasons to Live
by Amy Hempel | 
Drunk with Love
by Ellen Gilchrist | 
Stories of Five Decades
by Hermann Hesse | 
Like Life
by Lorrie Moore | 
The New Yorker Stories
by Ann Beattie | 
Three Paths to the Lake
by Ingeborg Bachmann |
A Dove of the East
by Mark Helprin | 
Ellen Gilchrist: Collected Stories
by Ellen Gilchrist | 
Lust and Other Stories
by Susan Minot | 
Bad Behavior
by Mary Gaitskill | 
A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies
by John Murray | 
Fear
by Stefan Zweig | 
Without a Hero
by T. Coraghessan Boyle | 
High Lonesome
by Joyce Carol Oates | 
Twilight and Moonbeam Alley
by Stefan Zweig | 
Death in Venice
by Thomas Mann | 
Jakob von Gunten
by Robert Walser |
A doctor in the Dutch East Indies torn between his medical duty to help and his own mixed emotions; a middle-aged maidservant whose devotion to her master leads her to commit a terrible act; a hotel waiter whose love for an unapproachable aristocratic beauty culminates in an almost lyrical death and a prisoner-of-war longing to be home again in Russia. In these four stories, Stefan Zweig shows his gift for the acute analysis of emotional dilemmas. His four tragic and moving cameos of the human condition are played out against cosmopolitan and colonial backgrounds in the first half of the twentieth century.