A woman hears news of her husband's death.

The events surrounding the birth of a child - the father a member of an important Louisiana family; the mother a woman found abandoned as a baby.

An unusually young ship's captain lets a stranger aboard his ship - a stranger who appears from the sea in the night. But an unusual bond forms between the two men.

By a stagnant lagoon, as his love lies dying, Arsat tells the story of their meeting and the price he had to pay to be with her.

A young girl falls in love with a mysterious stranger, shipwrecked in the bay near her village.

When Squire Petrick's dying wife admits that their new born child is not his, he takes steps to see that the boy is disinherited - but soon begins to regret his decision.

A poor woman borrows a necklace from a rich friend. Classic twisty tale.

Tender portrait of a man known as Wing Biddlebaum who's hands have played a particularly significant role in his life.

On an island in a Nabraskan river, six boys build their last watch fire of the year and tell stories of extinct civilisations.

The narrator's entrance into the afterlife is used to frame a story highlighting the pitiful conditions of one girl's working life.

A semi-barbaric king devises a semi-barabaric (but entirely fair) method of criminal trial involving two doors, a beautiful lady and a very hungry tiger.

Classic first-person account of a woman's descent into madness.

A penniless man is bet that he can't survive for a month - starting and ending with nothing but an implausible, but real, £1,000,000 note. Trading Places, Brewster's Millions. . . . .

The story - so fully realised that many took it to be true - of a young soldier who curses his country and is sentenced never to set foot in it again.

A man finds his life increasingly intertwined with those of his wife's previous two husbands.