Marie de France "The Lay of the Two Lovers"

Giovanni Boccaccio "The Falcon"

Matteo Bandello "Romeo and Juliet"

Francis Bret Harte "Miggles", "Tennessee's Partner", "The Idyl of Red Gulch"

Ivan Turgenev "First Love"

Anton Chekhov "The Lady eith the Little Dog"

Per Hallström "Amor"

Aino Kallas "The Wedding"

Rudyard Kipling "Without Benefit of Clergy"

E. M. Forster "The Eternal Moment"

Hermann Sudermann "A New-Year's Eve Confession"

Thomas Hardy "Barbara of the House of Grebe", "On the Western Circuit", "An Imaginative Woman"

Kate Chopin "At the 'cadian Ball", "The Storm"

W. Somerset Maugham "The Book-Bag", "A Casual Affair", "Neil MacAdam"

D. H. Lawrence "The Ladybird", "The Horse Dealer's Daughter"

Sherwood Anderson "Sophistication"

Katherine Mansfield "A Dill Pickle", "Mr and Mrs Dove"

James Hanley "A Moment for Reflection"

A. E. Coppard "The Black Dog"

Noel Coward "Traveller's Joy", "Ashes of Roses"

F. Scott Fitzgerald "The Rich Boy"

H. E. Bates "The Kimono", "The Revelation", "Cut and Come Again"

Rhys Davies "Love Kept Waiting"

Norah Lofts "Debt of Gratitude"

A. L. Barker "The Pleaser"

Honor Tracy "Via Dolorosa"

Lyanne Reid Banks "Trust"

Carson McCullers "The Sojourner"

Margery Sharp "The Girl in the Grass"

Doris Lessing "Winter in July"

Alan Sillitoe "Before Snow Comes"

Sean O'Faolaind "Feed My Lambs", "The Faithless Wife"

Irwin Shaw "Love on a Dark Street"

William Trevor "The Real Thing"