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The two brothers (Anpu and Bata) / Anonymous --

Setna and the magic book / Anonymous --

Eumæus' : talk / Homer --

The country mouse and the town mouse / Æsop --

King Rhampsinitus and the thief / Herodotus --

Phineus and the harpies / Apollonius of Rhodes --

The robbers of Egypt / Heliodorus --

Horatius at the bridge / Livy --

Orpheus and the Eurydice / Ovid --

The shipwreck of Simonides / Phædrus --

The matron of Ephesus / Petronius --

The haunted house / Pliny the Younger --

The dream / Apuleius --

The book of Ruth (Old Testament) --

The history of Susanna (The Apocrypha) --

The prodigal son (New Testament) --

The raising of Lazarus (New Testament) --

Rabbi Akiva (The Talmud) --

The Jewish mother (The Talmud) --

The ass in the lion's skin (Jataka) --

The dove and the crow (Panchatantra) --

The story of Devadatta / Somadeva --

The jackal (Hitopadesa) --

Jamshid and Zuhak / Firdawsi --

The sailor and the pearl merchant / Anonymous --

Khaled and Djaida / Al-Asmal --

Abou Hassan the wag (Thousand and one nights) --

Grendel's raid (Beowulf) --

Esyllt and Sabrina / Geoffrey of Monmouth --

The humbling of Jovinian (Gesta Romanorum) --

Lludd and Llevelys (The Mabinogion) --

Launcelot's tourney / Sir Thomas Malory --

Roberto's tale / Robert Greene --

True relation of the apparition of one Mrs. Veal / Daniel Defoe --

The story of an heir / Joseph Addison --

The disabled soldier / Oliver Goldsmith --

The bridal of Janet Dalrymple / Sir Walter Scott --

The white trout / Samuel Lover --

The queer client / Charles Dickens --

A terribly strange bed / Wilkie Collins --

Squire Petrick's lady / Thomas Hardy --

Thrawn Janet / Robert Louis Stevenson --

The selfish giant / Oscar Wilde --

Julia Cahill's curse / George Moore --

That brute Simmons / Arthur Morrison.

The lay of Hildebrand / Anonymous --

Siegfried and Kriemhild (The lay of the Nibelungs) --

The coming of Gandin / Gottfried von Strassburg --

Bruin the bear & Reynard the fox (R