The duchess and the smugs / Pamela Frankau --
The man in the toolhouse / Harvey Swados --
The proverb / Marcel Aymé --
The great gesture / Isak Dinesen --
Sir Hercules / Aldous Huxley --
Paris! Paris! / Irwin Shaw --
The ghost train / Lawrence Durrell --
The tree / Dylan Thomas --
The listener / John Berry --
The wild goat's kid / Liam O'Flaherty --
The end of the line / Gavin Lambert --
My mortal enemy / Willa Cather --
The weeping children / Frank O'Connor --
House of flowers / Truman Capote --
The bus to St. James's / John Cheever --
Goodbye and good luck / Grace Paley --
The bravest boat / Malcolm Lowry --
Aimée Dubucq de Rivery: message from a ghost / Lesley Blanch --
The jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter --
Operation heartbreak / Duff Cooper --
The salt of the earth / Rebecca West --
The gentleman from Paris / John Dickson Carr --
Confidence trick / John Wyndham --
The birds / Daphne du Maurier --
The specialty of the house / Stanley Ellin --
The end of the party / Graham Greene --
The way up to heaven / Roald Dahl --
The girl from California / John O'Hara --
Dumb kid / Jerome Weidman --
A & P / John Updike --
My grandmother and the dirty English / Aubrey Menen --
Evelyn Waugh runs a fair / Edward R.F. Sheehan --
No legs, no jokes, no chance / Helene Hanff --
Get your grandfather off the track / Ralph Schoenstein --
How to talk to a man / Jean Kerr --
Hell Creek Crossing / William Faulkner.