Indhold: Noveller (Ivan Turgenev - Bjezjin-engen, Kasján fra Krasiva-Metsj ; Anton Tjekhov - Kysset, Studenten, Damen med hunden ; Guy de Maupassant - Fru Telliers pensionat, Le horla ; Ernest Hemingway - Bjerge som hvide elefanter, Sov sødt, mine herrer, Kilimanjaros sne, Forvandlingen ; Flannery O'Connor - A good man is hard to find, Good country people, A view of the woods ; Vladimir Nabokov - The Vane sisters ; Jorge Luis Borges - Tlön, uqbar, orbis tertius ; Tommaso Landolfi - Gogols hustru ; Italo Calvino - De usynlige byer) ; Digte (Housman, Blake, Landor og Tennyson : A.E. Housman - Into my heart an air that kills, William Blake - The sick rose, Walter Savage Landor - On his seventy-fifth birthday, Alfred Lord Tennyson - The eagle, Ulysses ; Robert Browning - Childe Roland to the dark tower came ; Walt Whitman - Song of myself ; Dickinson, Brontë, folkeviser og "Tom O'Bedlam" : Emily Dickinson - Digt nr. 1260 Because that you are going, Emily Brontë - Stanzas Often rebuked, yet always back returning, folkeviser - Sir Patrick Spence, The unquiet grave, Anonym - Tom O'Bedlam ; William Shakespeare - Sonnet 121 Bedre at være slet end slet agtes, Sonnet 129 Forbrug af livskraft blot som lumpent spild, Sonnet 144 To elsker jeg, der lig dæmoner jager ; John Milton - Det tabte paradis ; William Wordsworth - A slumber did my spirit seal, My heart leaps up when I behold ; Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Den gamle sømand ; Shelley og Keats : Percy Bysshe Shelley - The triumph of life, John Keats - La belle dame sans merci) ; Romaner (Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quijote ; Stendhal - Hoffet i Parma ; Jane Austen - Emma ; Charles Dickens - Store forventninger ; Fjodor Dostojevskij - Raskolnikov, forbrydelse og straf ; Henry James - Portræt af en dame ; Marcel Proust - På sporet efter den tabte tid ; Thomas Mann - Trolddomsbjerget ; Herman Melville - Moby-Dick ; William Faulkner - I min sidste time ; Nathanael West - Fru Hjertesorg ; Thomas Pynchon - Katalognummer 49 udbydes ; Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian ; Ralph Ellison - Usynlig mand ; Toni Morrison - Salomons sang) ; Skuespil (William Shakespeare - Hamlet ; Henrik Ibsen - Hedda Gabler ; Oscar Wilde - The importance of being earnest)