Contents: Introduction, by Charles Neider.- Benito Cereno, by Herman Melville .- Notes from underground, by F. M. Dostoyvsky.- A simple heart, by Gustave Fiaubert.- the death of Ivan Ilych, by L. N. Tolstoy.- the Aspern papers, by Henry James.- ward no. 6. by A. P. Chekhov.- Death in Venice, by Thoma Mann.- the dead, by James Joyce.- The metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka.- The fox, by D. H. Lawrence