A collection of stories and poems, arranged in four sections corresponding to the four seasons.

A Crazy tale / Gilbert Keith Chesterton
How the rhinoceros got his skin / Rudyard Kipling
Reflections / Lafcadio Hearn
Complements / Emile Zola
The King of the Golden River or the Black Brothers / John Ruskin
The Elephant's child / Rudyard Kipling
The Bottle imp / Robert Louis Stevenson
The Remarkable rocket / Oscar Wilde
Journalism in Tennessee / Mark Twain
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi / Rudyard Kipling
Uncle David's nonsensical story about giants and fairies / Catherine Sinclair
The Fox and the hedgehog / Aesop
The Goose-girl / Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm
The necklace of Princess Fiorimonde / Mary de Morgan
The Crow and the pitcher / Aesop
The Bridge comes to Yellow Sky / Stephen Crane
Humpty Dumpty / Lewis Carroll
The Stag looking into the water / Aesop
The Mock Turtle's story / Lewis Carroll
The Problem of Thor Bridge / Arthur Conan Doyle
Wakefield / Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Spring lover and the autumn lover / Lafcadio Hearn
The Three strangers / Thomas Hardy
How much land does a man need? / Leo Tolstoy
Ali the Persian's story of the Kurd Sharper / The Arabian Nights
Feathertop a moralized legend / Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Recessional / Saki
Death and Cupid / Aesop
The Red shoes / Hans Christian Andersen
The Signal-man / Charles Dickens
Witches' loaves / O. Henry
The Horla, or modern ghosts / Guy de Maupassant
The Belltower / Herman Melville
In the dark / E. Nesbit
William Wilson / Edgar Allan Poe
The Queen of spades / Alexander Pushkin
All souls' / Edith Wharton
The Remarkable case of Davidson's eyes / H.G. Wells
The Nose / Nikolai Gogol
The Song of triumphant love / Ivan Turgenev