This collection provides a wide selection of literary masterworks by authors of numerous nationalities.

Included are "The Father" and "Railroad and Churchyard" by Bjornstjerne Bjornson; "The Outlaws" and "A Christmas Guest" by Selma Lagerloff; "The Lover" by Maxim Gorky; "The Fountain of Youth" by Rudolf Baumbach; "The 47 Ronins" by Takashi Takamya; "Patient Griselda" by Giovanni Boccaccio; "The Distracted Preacher" by Thomas Hardy; "The Lady of Launay" by Anthony Trollope; "A Phantom Lover" by Vernon Lee; "Mateo Falcone" and "The Venus of Ille" by Prosper Merimee; "The Young Foreigner" by Wilhelm Hauf; "The Silver Crucifix" by Antonio Fogazzaro; "The Miracle of Purhan Bhagat" by Rudyard Kipling; and "The Rendezvous" by Ivan Turgenev.