This is a collection of stories about interesting, unusual, bright human characters and destinies.

Contents:

Gusev by Anton Chekhov

Boule de Suif by Guy De Maupassant

Alyosha the Pot by Leo Tolstoy

Mateo Falcone by Prosper Mérimée

Little Brother by Mary E. Mann

Bartleby, The Scrivener by Herman Melville

The Lightning-Rod Man by Herman Melville

The Ambitious Guest by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Darling by Anton Chekhov

A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert