Contents
Note
Acknowledgments
Chinua Achebe [Nigeria]
Marriage Is a Private Affair (1952)
Sherwood Anderson [U.S.A.]
The Other Woman (1921)
Anonymous [West and South Asia]
The Thousand and One Nights (“Story of King Shahryar and His Brother” and “Conclusion”) (c. 900)
Giovanni Boccaccio [Italy]
Seventh Day: Ninth Story (“Lydia, wife of Nicostratus, loves Pyrrhus”) (c. 1353)
Jorge Luis Borges [Argentina]
Ulrikke (1975)
Anton Chekhov [Russia]
A Misfortune (1886)
Kate Chopin [U.S.A.]
Azélie (1894)
Colette [France]
White Night (1908)
Géza Csáth [Hungary]
Erna (c. 1910)
Junot Díaz [Dominican Republic/U.S.A.]
The Sun, the Moon, the Stars (2012)
James Joyce [Ireland]
Araby (1914)
Heinrich von Kleist [Germany]
The Earthquake in Chile (1807)
D. H. Lawrence [England]
The White Stocking (1914)
Gabriel García Márquez [Colombia]
The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World (1968)
Guy de Maupassant [France]
A Wife’s Confession (1882)
Yukio Mishima [Japan]
The Priest of the Shiga Temple and His Love (1968)
Alice Munro [Canada]
How I Met My Husband (1974)
R. K. Narayan [India]
The Shelter (1985)
Dorothy Parker [U.S.A.]
A Telephone Call (1928)
Alexander Pushkin [Russia]
An Amateur Peasant Girl (1830)
Max Schott [U.S.A.]
The Old Flame (1978)
Anthony Trollope [England]
Miss Ophelia Gledd (1863)
Lara Vapnyar [Russia/U.S.A.]
Love Lessons—Mondays, 9 A.M. (2003)
Giovanni Verga [Sicily]
The She-Wolf (1880)
William Carlos Williams [U.S.A.]
The Knife of the Times (1932)