Included in this brilliant collection are twenty-five stories of twentieth-century Europe by some of the greatest writers of the era. Unique in their range of insights, these pieces reflect the vast upheavals of their time, etching o fascinating and very thorough spiritual record of Europe's recent cultural evolution.

Includes stories by:

Anton Chekhov
Katherine Mansfield
James Joyce
Joseph Conrad
Thomas Mann
D.H. Lawrence
W. Somerset Maughm
Jean-Paul Sartre
Albert Camus
Franz Kafka
Isak Dinesen
Isaac Babel
Alberto Moravia
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Luigi Pirandello
Wolfgang Hildesheimer
Jakov Lind
Heinz Huber
Henrich Boll
Yuri Kazakov