A wonderful, wide-ranging, interesting, and enjoyable collection of short stories by writers from around the world. Included in this volume are abandoned by Guy de Maupassant, a fight with a canon by victor hugo, the man...A wonderful, wide-ranging, interesting, and enjoyable collection of short stories by writers from around the world. Included in this volume are abandoned by Guy de Maupassant, a fight with a canon by victor hugo, the manuscript by otto larssen, and the safety match by anton chekhov.