Contents Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe Rudyard Kipling: "Mowgli´s Brothers" Victor Hugo: "The Battle with the Cannon" from Ninety-three Guy de Maupassant: Two Friends Ernest Hemingway: The Killers Sir Walter Scott: The Two Drovers Joseph Conrad: Youth Voltaire: Micromégas Oscar Wilde: The Happy Prince Edgar Allen Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart and The Masque of the Red Death Robert Louis Stevenson: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Mark Twain: The Man who Corrupted Hadleyburg Charles Dickens: A Full and Faithful Report of the Memorable Trial of Bardell against Pickwick from "The Pickwick Papers" Nikolai Gogol: The Overcoat Samuel Butler: Customs and Opinions of the Erewhonians from "Erewhon" Sherwood Anderson; I´m a Fool Anonymous: Aucassin and Nicolette