A collection of 22 short stories by 22 masters of the short story:
- Ernest Hemingway
- Stephen Vincent Benét
- Dorothy Parker
- Willa Cather
- Sherwood Anderson
- Katherine Mansfield
- Thomas Mann
- W. Somerset Maugham
- Ring Lardner
- Ivan Bunin Saki (H.H. Munro)
- W.W. Jacobs
- O. Henry
- Anton P. Chekhov
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Guy de Maupassant
- Anatole France
- Mark Twain
- Bret Harte
- Leo N. Tolstoi
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Honoré de Balzac