* Aesop - The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon

* Anton Chekhov - Gooseberries
* Apollonius of Rhodes - Jason and Medea
* Baltasar Gracian - How to Use Your Enemies
* Brothers Grimm - The Robber Bridegroom
* C.P. Cavafy - Remember, Body...
* Catullus - I Hate and I Love
* Charles Darwin - It Was Snowing Butterflies
* Charles Dickens - The Great Winglebury Duel
* Charlotte Perkins Gilman - The Yellow Wall-Paper

* Christina Rossetti - Goblin Market
* D. H. Lawrence - Il Duro
* Dante - Circles of Hell
* Edgar Allan Poe - The Tell-Tale Heart
* Edith Wharton - The Reckoning
* Elizabeth Gaskell - The Old Nurse's Story
* Emily Bronte - The Night is Darkening Round Me
* Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx - The Communist Manifesto
* Friedrich Nietzsche - Aphorisms on Love and Hate
* Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Meek One
* Geoffrey Chaucer - The Wife of Bath
* Gerard Manley Hopkins - As Kingfishers Catch Fire
* Giorgio Vasari - Leonardo da Vinci
* Giovanni Boccaccio - Mrs Rosie and the Priest
* Gustave Flaubert - A Simple Heart
* Guy de Maupassant - Femme Fatale
* H. G. Wells - A Slip Under the Microscope
* Hafez - The Nightingales are Drunk
* Hans Christian Andersen - The Tinderbox
* Henry James - The Figure in the Carpet
* Henry Mayhew - Of Street Piemen
* Herman Melville - The Maldive Shark
* Herodotus - The Madness of Cambyses
* Homer - Circe and the Cyclops
* Honore de Balzac - The Atheist's Mass
* Ivan Turgenev - Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands
* Jane Austen - The Beautifull Cassandra
* Johann Peter Hebel - How a Ghastly Story Was Brought to Light by a Common or Garden Butcher's Dog
* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings
* John Keats - The Eve of St Agnes
* John Ruskin - Traffic
* Jonathan Swift - A Modest Proposal
* Joseph Conrad - To-morrow
* Kate Chopin - A Pair of Silk Stockings
* Katherine Mansfield - Miss Brill
* Kenko - A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
* Leo Tolstoy - How Much Land Does A Man Need?
* Marco Polo - Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls
* Mary Kingsley - A Hippo Banquet
* Matsuo Basho - Lips too Chilled
* Michel de Montaigne - How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing
* Nikolai Gogol - The Nose
* Nikolay Leskov - The Steel Flea
* Oscar Wilde - Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
* Ovid - The Fall of Icarus
* Petronius - Trimalchio's Feast
* Plato - Socrates' Defence
* Pu Songling - Wailing Ghosts
* Richard Hakluyt - The Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Around the Whole Globe
* Robert Louis Stevenson - Olalla
* Rudyard Kipling - The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows
* Ryunosuke Akutagawa - The Life of a Stupid Man
* Samuel Pepys - The Great Fire of London
* Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Well, They are Gone, and Here Must I Remain
* Sappho - Come Close
* Shen Fu - The Old Man of the Moon
* Sophocles - Antigone
* Suetonius - Caligula
* Thomas De Quincey - On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
* Thomas Hardy - Woman Much Missed
* Thomas Nashe - The Terrors of the Night
* Virgil - O Cruel Alexis
* Walt Whitman - On the Beach at Night Alone
* Wilfred Owen - Anthem For Doomed Youth
* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - My Dearest Father
* Sindbad the Sailor
* The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-tongue
* Three Tang Dynasty Poets
* Speaking of Siva
* The Dhammapada