A wonderful, wide-ranging, interesting, and enjoyable collection of short stories by writers from around the world. Included in this volume are Abandoned by Guy De Maupassant, A Fight With A Canon by Victor Hugo, The Manuscript by Otto Larssen, and The Safety Match by Anton Chekhov. Also included are stories by Leo Tolstoy, Alexandre Dumas, Alfred De Musset, Marcel Provost, J. M. Barrie, Clemence Robert, Rudyard Kipling, Rene Bazin, and Emilia Pardo-Bazan. This collection is a literary treasure!