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Collection contains: The kiss / Anton Chekhov -- Her first ball / Katherine Mansfield -- [Araby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20570121W) / James Joyce -- The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad -- The infant prodigy / Thomas Mann -- The horse dealer's daughter / D.H. Lawrence -- The colonel's lady / W. Somerset Maugham -- The wall / Jean-Paul Sartre -- The adulterous woman / Albert Camus -- Jackals and Arabs / Franz Kafka -- Sorrow-acre / Isak Dinesen -- In the basement / Isaac Babel -- Bitter honeymoon / Alberto Moravia -- The last judgment / Karel Capek -- Gimpel the fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- War / Luigi Pirandello -- A world ends / Wolfgang Hildesheimer -- Journey through the night / Jakov Lind -- The new apartment / Heinz Huber -- Murke's collected silences / Heinrich Boll -- Gogol's wife / Tommaso Landolfi -- Autumn in the oak woods / Yuri Kazakov -- Isaac Starbuck / Alan Sillitoe -- First confession / Frank O'Connor -- The great wave / Mary Lavin.