The Arabian Nights
by Anonymous | 
Metamorphosis and Other Stories
by Franz Kafka | 
The Complete Fairy Tales
by George MacDonald | 
The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde
by Oscar Wilde | 
Leaf by Niggle
by J. R. R. Tolkien | 
Time and the Gods
by Lord Dunsany | 
The Golden Pot and Other Tales
by E. T. A. Hoffmann | 
A House of Pomegranates
by Oscar Wilde | 
The Chimes
by Charles Dickens | 
The Lady, or the Tiger?
by Frank R. Stockton | 
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
by Nikolai Gogol | 
Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
by W. B. Yeats | 
Winter's Tales
by Isak Dinesen | 
A Passage to India
by E. M. Forster | 
The Celestial Omnibus and other Stories
by E. M. Forster | 
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
by Edgar Allan Poe | 
Howards End
by E. M. Forster | 
Howard's End
by E. M. Forster | 
The Complete Chronicles of Conan
by Robert E. Howard | 
The Complete Fairy Tales
by Oscar Wilde |
Written at various dates before World War I, these 12 stories contain themes that were to re-emerge in E.M. Forster's later work. They demonstrate his belief in freedom, self realization and a spiritual honesty that may be used to defeat the lies of repression.