Metamorphosis and Other Stories
by Franz Kafka | 
The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde
by Oscar Wilde | 
The Golden Pot and Other Tales
by E. T. A. Hoffmann | 
A House of Pomegranates
by Oscar Wilde | 
Collected Short Stories
by E. M. Forster | 
The Chimes
by Charles Dickens | 
The Lady, or the Tiger?
by Frank R. Stockton | 
The Four Million
by O. Henry | 
The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories
by O. Henry | 
Cabbages and Kings
by O. Henry | 
Flappers and Philosophers
by F. Scott Fitzgerald | 
The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James | 
The Open Boat and Other Stories
by Stephen Crane | 
England, My England
by D. H. Lawrence | 
The epic of Gilgamesh
by Anonymous | 
Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
by W. B. Yeats | 
Winter's Tales
by Isak Dinesen | 
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
by Edgar Allan Poe | 
The Complete Fairy Tales
by Oscar Wilde | 
Tales of the Unexpected
by Roald Dahl |
The tales of told by Shahrazad over a thousand and one nights to delay her execution by the vengeful King Shahriyar have become among the most popular in both Eastern and Western literature, as recounted by Sir Francis Burton. From the epic adventures of "Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp" to the farcical "Young Woman and her Five Lovers" and the social criticism of "The Tale of the Hunchback", the stories depict a fabulous world of all-powerful sorcerers, jinns imprisoned in bottles and enchanting princesses. But despite their imaginative extravagance, the Tales are anchored to everyday life by their realism, providing a full and intimate record of medieval Islam.'