Contents:

• A shocking accident by Graham Greene
• The necklace by Guy de Maupassant
• The fiery wooing of Mordred by P G Wodehouse
• How un-American can you get? by Art Buchwald
• The rocking-horse by D H Lawrence
• To build a fire by Jack London
• At the airport by Marina Mizzau
• Children of the vaults by Vladimir Korolenko
• The night the bed fell by James Thurber
• Roosya by Ivan Bunin
• The tell-tale heart by Edgar Allan-Poe
• Borrowing a match by Stephen Leacock
• Lamb to the slaughter by Roald Dahl
• Sredni Vashtar by Saki