Contents

Volume I
Taras Bulba: A Tale of the Cossacks by Nicolai V. Gogol translated by Isabel F. Hapgood

Volume II
Sebastopol by Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist...

Volume III
The Crushed Flower and Other Stories, by Leonid Andreev translated by Herman Bernstein

Herman Bernstein

Herman Bernstein was an American journalist, writer, translator, and diplomat.Herman Bernstein was born on September 21, 1876, in Vladislavov at that time on the Russo-German border to David and Marie Bernstein...

.http://www.archive.org/details/crushedfloweroth00andriala

Volume IV
The Career of a Nihilist by S. Stepniak [pseud.]

Volume V
Parisian points of view by Ludovic Halevy

Ludovic Halévy

Ludovic Halévy was a French author and playwright. He was half Jewish : his Jewish father had converted to Christianity prior to his birth, to marry his mother, née Alexandrine Lebas.-Biography:Ludovic Halévy was born in Paris...

 translated by Edith V. B. Matthews, with an introduction by Brander Matthews

Brander Matthews

James Brander Matthews , was a U.S. writer and educator. Matthews was the first U.S. professor of dramatic literature.-Biography:...

.http://www.archive.org/details/parisianpointsof00haluoft

Volume VI
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (Member of the Institute) by Anatole France

Anatole France

Anatole France , born François-Anatole Thibault, , was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. He was born in Paris, and died in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire. He was a successful novelist, with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters...

, translation and introduction by Lafcadio Hearn

Lafcadio Hearn

Patrick Lafcadio Hearn , known also by the Japanese name , was an international writer, known best for his books about Japan, especially his collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories, such as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things...

.http://www.archive.org/details/thecrimeofsylves00franiala

Volume VII & Volume VIII
For the Right by Karl Emil Franzos

Karl Emil Franzos

Karl Emil Franzos was a German novelist.Karl Emil Franzos was a popular German author of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. His works, both reportage and fiction, concentrate on the multi-ethnic corner of eastern Europe, now largely in Ukraine, where the Habsburg and Russian empires met...

 translated by Julie Sutter. Preface by George MacDonald

George MacDonald

George MacDonald was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister.Known particularly for his poignant fairy tales and fantasy novels, George MacDonald inspired many authors, such as W. H. Auden, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, E. Nesbit and Madeleine L'Engle. It was C.S...

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Volume IX
Black Diamonds by Maurus Jokai translated by Frances A. Gerard.http://www.archive.org/details/blackdiamondsnov00jkuoft

Volume X
Dame Care (Frau Sorge

Frau Sorge

Frau Sorge is the first of Hermann Sudermann's complete novels and the work which brought him his fame as a writer of fiction.-Theme:The story is conceived around the imaginative legend of Frau Sorge, with which the story ends...

) by Hermann Sudermann

Hermann Sudermann

Hermann Sudermann was a German dramatist and novelist.- Early career :He was born at Matzicken, a village just to the east of Heydekrug in the Province of Prussia , close to the Russian frontier...

 tr. from the German by Bertha Overbeck.

Volume XI
The New god, A Tale Of The Early Christians by Richard Voss

Volume XII and XIII
Debit and Credit by Gustav Freytag

Gustav Freytag

Gustav Freytag was a German novelist and playwright.-Life:Freytag was born in Kreuzburg in Silesia...

, translated from German by L. C. C., with a preface by Christian Charles Josias Bunsen

Christian Charles Josias Bunsen

Christian Charles Josias, Baron von Bunsen was a German diplomat and scholar.-Early life and education:Bunsen was born at Korbach, an old town in the little German principality of Waldeck....

.http://www.archive.org/details/debitcredit01freyuofthttp://www.archive.org/details/debitcredit02freyuoft

Volume XIV
Spanish, Italian and Oriental tales, including stories by I. M. Palmarini, Camillo Boito

Camillo Boito

Camillo Boito was an Italian architect and engineer, and a noted art critic, art historian and novelist.-Biography:...

, Antonio Fogazzaro

Antonio Fogazzaro

Antonio Fogazzaro was an Italian novelist.-Biography:Fogazzaro was born in Vicenza to a rich family.In 1864 he got a law degree in Turin...

 and Pedra de Alarcon.http://www.archive.org/details/spanishitalianor00palmuoft

Volume XV
Modern Ghosts, with introduction by George William Curtis

George William Curtis

George William Curtis was an American writer and public speaker, born in Providence, Rhode Island, of old New England stock.-Biography:...

.http://www.archive.org/details/modernghostssele00curtuoft

Volume XVI
The house by the medlar-tree by Giovanni Verga

Giovanni Verga

Giovanni Carmelo Verga was an Italian realist writer, best known for his depictions of life in Sicily, and especially for the short story "Cavalleria Rusticana" and the novel I Malavoglia .-Life and career:The first son of Giovanni Battista Catalano Verga and Caterina Di Mauro,...

 translated by Mary A. Craig with an introduction by W. D. Howells.http://www.archive.org/details/housebymedlartre00verghttp://www.archive.org/details/housebymedlartre00verguoft

Volume XVII
The battle of Waterloo and other stories, by Alexander Kielland

Alexander Kielland

Alexander Lange Kielland was one of the most famous Norwegian realistic writers of the 19th century. He is one of the so-called "The Four Greats" in Norwegian literature, along with Henrik Ibsen, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and Jonas Lie.-Background:Born in Stavanger, Norway, he grew up in a rich...

, translated from Norwegian by William Archer

William Archer

William Archer may refer to:* William S. Archer , U.S. Senator and Representative from Virginia* William Archer Irish naturalist and microscopist especially interested in Protozoa and Desmids...

, with an introduction by H. H. Boyesen. Includes:http://www.archive.org/details/battleofwaterloo00kielialahttp://www.archive.org/details/battleofwaterloo00kieluoft

• Pharoh
• The Parsonage
• The Peat Moor
• "Hope's clad in April green"
• At the fair
• Two friends
• A good conscience
• Romance and Reality
• Withered leaves
• The battle of Waterloo

Volume XVIII
Mystery tales, reprint of The Lock and Key Library: North Europe Stories, by Julian Hawthorne

Julian Hawthorne

Julian Hawthorne was an American writer and journalist, the son of novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody. He wrote numerous poems, novels, short stories, mystery/detective fiction, essays, travel books, biographies and histories...

. Includes:http://www.archive.org/details/mysterytalesincl00berguoft

• The Queen of Spades, Pushkin
• The General's Will, Vera Jelihovsky
• Crime and Punishment
  Crime and Punishment
  Crime and Punishment is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during 1866. It was later published in a single volume. This is the second of Dostoyevsky's full-length novels following his...
  
  , Fyoodor Dostoyevsky
• The Safety Match, Anton Chekhoff
• Knights of Industry, Vsevolod Krestovski
• The Amputated Arms, Jorgen Wilhelm Bergsoe
• The Manuscript, Otto Larssen
• The Sealed Room, Bernhard Ingemann
• The Rector of Veilbye, Steen Steensen Blicher
  Steen Steensen Blicher
  Steen Steensen Blicher was an author and poet born in Vium near Viborg, Denmark.- Biography :Blicher was the son of a literarily inclined Jutlandic parson whose family was distantly related to Martin Luther....
  
  
• The Living Death, Ferencz Molnar
• Thirteen at Table, Maurus Jokai
• The Dancing Bear, Etienne Barsony
• The Tower Room, Arthur Elck

Volume XIX
Danish folk taleshttp://openlibrary.org/b/OL7030540M/Danish_folk_tales

Volume XX
The wonderful adventures of Nils