World Literture from Egypt, Greece, Rome, India, Persia, Arabia, Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Russia, Yiddish, United States, and more. Offers over 100 complete short stories, chosen from the great literature of all periods and countries, many through time, have become classics. Includes Homer, Aesop, Ovid, Petronius, Stories of the Old and New Testament and from the Talmud, Oliver Goldsmith, Charles Dickens, Sir Walter Scott, Thomas Hardy, Robert Lewis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, The Borthers Grimm, Voltaire, Emile Zola, Guy de Maupassant, Macchiavelli, Cervnates, Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekkov, Sholom Asch, Sholom Aleichem, Hans Christian Andersen, Washingto Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Hnery James, O Henry, Theodore Dreiser, and many many more.