Introduction; 1. The Invisible Girl - Mary Shelley; 2. The Black Veil - Charles Dickens; 3. The Nightingale - Hans Christian Andersen; 4. The Tell-Tale Heart - Edgar Allan Poe; 5. The Necklace - Guy De Maupassant; 6. The Model Millionaire - Oscar Wilde; 7. Tony Kytes: The Arch-Deceiver - Thomas Hardy; 8. The Sea Raiders - H. G. Wells; 9. A Pair of Silk Stockings - Kate Chopin; 10. A Wagner Matinee - Willa Cather; 11. The Mission of Mr. Scatters - Paul Laurence Dunbar; 12. Sultana's Dream - Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain; 13. The Preliminaries - Cornelia A. P. Comer; 14. Araby - James Joyce; 15. The Mark On The Wall - Virginia Woolf; 16. The Interlopers - Saki (Hector Hugh Munro); 17. The Nightmare Room - Arthur Conan Doyle; 18. The Return - Elizabeth Bowen; 19. The Woman at The Store - Katherine Mansfield; 20. Never - H. E. Bates; 21. Atrophy - Edith Wharton; 22. A Lady's Beaded Bag - Tennessee Williams; 23. Excursion - Herman Bosman; 24. Like Mother Used To Make - Shirley Jackson; 25. The Lagoon - Janet Frame; 26. The Flying Machine - Ray Bradbury; 27. The Cricket Match - Sam Selvon; 28. The Blush - Elizabeth Taylor; 29. The Sacrificial Egg - Chinua Achebe; 30. Action Will Be Taken (An Action-Packed Story) - Heinrich Boll; 31. Woman from America - Bessie Head; 32. The Man Who Wouldn't Get Up - David Lodge; 33. A Very Desirable Residence - P. D. James; 34. Sale - Anita Desai; 35. Land Deal - Gerald Murnane; 36. The Teddy-Bears' Picnic - William Trevor; 37. My Father Writes to My Mother - Assia Djebar; 38. Smoke - Ila Mehta; 39. Fishing - Patricia Grace; 40. The Fire Eater's Return - Earl Lovelace; 41. The Secret of My Youth - Mimoza Ahmeti; 42. The Light On The Sea - John Wickham; 43. New York Day Women - Edwidge Danticat; 44. A Village After Dark - Kazuo Ishiguro; 45. The Clean Slate - Hilary Mantel; 46. The American Embassy - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; 47. Nietverloren - J. M. Coetzee; 48. The Universal Story - Ali Smith; 49. Golden Boys - Shih-Li Kow; 50. Staying Behind - Ken Liu; 51. My Father's Head - Okwiri Oduor; 52. The Nominee - Curtis Sittenfeld; 53. Hard to Say - Sharon Morse; 54. Reflection - Silmy Abdullah; 55. Kind Stranger - Meron Hadero; 56. Widows - Margaret Atwood; Acknowledgements.