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• The Cannery Boat, by Takiji Kobayashi, and Other Japanese Short Stories (New York: International Publishers, c1933), contrib. by Takiji Kobayashi, Seikichi Fujimori, Takiji Kobayashi, Denji Kuroshima, Sanji Kishi, Teppei Kataoka, Naoshi Tokunaga, and Fusao Hayashi (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Hanakatsura: The Works of Famous Literary Women in Japan (originally published 1903; this edition with added biographies; Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2022), ed. by Paul Royster, trans. by Tei Fujiu, contrib. by Kaho Miyake, Ichiyō Higuchi, Usurai Kitada, and Ōtsuka Kusuoko (PDF with commentary at unl.edu)

• Stories By Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian, contrib. by Henryk Sienkiewicz, Dēmētrios Vikelas, Maurice Maeterlinck, Camille Lemonnier, and Mór Jókai (Gutenberg text)

• Broken Ties and Other Stories (c1925), by Rabindranath Tagore (text at Gutenberg Australia)

• Brazilian Tales (Boston: Four Seas Co., 1921), ed. by Isaac Goldberg, contrib. by Machado de Assis, Medeiros e Albuquerque, Henrique Coelho Netto, and Carmen Dolores (Gutenberg text and page images)

• Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio (2 volumes; London: T. De la Rue and Co., 1880), by Songling Pu, ed. by Herbert Allen Giles
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: Gutenberg text
• Strange Stories From the Lodge of Leisures (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1913), by Songling Pu, trans. by G. Soulié de Morant
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text

• Mogens, and Other Stories, by J. P. Jacobsen, trans. by Anna Grabow (Gutenberg text)

• Famous Stories from Foreign Countries (Boston: The Four Seas Co., 1921), trans. by Edna Worthley Underwood, contrib. by Rudolf Hans Bartsch, Svatopluk Čech, A. Aharonean, Sándor Petőfi, Multatuli, Jaroslav Vrchlický, Kálmán Mikszáth, Peter Rosegger, Alexander Lange Kielland, and Pietari Päivärinta
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life (from a 3-volume edition), by Guy de Maupassant, contrib. by Paul Bourget and Robert Arnot (HTML at Virginia)

• Stories By Foreign Authors: German, contrib. by Paul Heyse, Rudolf Lindau, Leopold Sacher-Masoch, Rudolf Baumbach, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Heinrich Zschokke, Berthold Auerbach, Leopold Kompert, Wilhelm Hauff, and Adelbert von Chamisso
  • first volume; Gutenberg text
  • second volume; Gutenberg text

• Stories By Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian, contrib. by Henryk Sienkiewicz, Dēmētrios Vikelas, Maurice Maeterlinck, Camille Lemonnier, and Mór Jókai (Gutenberg text)

• Stories By Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian, contrib. by Henryk Sienkiewicz, Dēmētrios Vikelas, Maurice Maeterlinck, Camille Lemonnier, and Mór Jókai (Gutenberg text)

• Seven Icelandic Short Stories, ed. by Ásgeir Pétursson and Steingrímur J. Þorsteinsson (Gutenberg text)

• Stories By Foreign Authors: Italian, contrib. by Edmondo De Amicis, Antonio Fogazzaro, Gabriele D'Annunzio, and Enrico Castelnuovo (Gutenberg text)

• Tijuana: Stories on the Border (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1995), by Federico Campbell, ed. by Debra A. Castillo (HTML at UC Press)

• Life and Death, and Other Legends and Stories (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1904), by Henryk Sienkiewicz, trans. by Jeremiah Curtin (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Stories By Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian, contrib. by Henryk Sienkiewicz, Dēmētrios Vikelas, Maurice Maeterlinck, Camille Lemonnier, and Mór Jókai (Gutenberg text)

• Roumanian Stories (London and New York: J. Lane, 1921), trans. by Lucy Byng, contrib. by Mihail Sadoveanu, I. L. Caragiale, Constantin Negruzzi, Marcu Beza, Ion Creangă, I. Al. Brătescu-Voinești, Ioan Slavici, Ion Popovici-Bănățeanul, and Barbu Delavrancea
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Old Russian Stories (New York: A.S. Barnes, 1960), by Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol', ed. by J. I. Rodale, illust. by Philip Evergood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Best Russian Short Stories, ed. by Thomas Seltzer, contrib. by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol', Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov, Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko, V. M. Garshin, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Fyodor Sologub, I. N. Potapenko, S. T. Semyonov, Maksim Gorky, Leonid Andreyev, M. Artsybashev, and A. I. Kuprin (Gutenberg text)
• The Mantle, and Other Stories (New York: F. A. Stokes; London: T. W. Laurie, ca. 1916), by Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol', trans. by Claud Field, contrib. by Prosper Mérimée
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Stories By Foreign Authors: Russian, contrib. by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol', and Leo Tolstoy (Gutenberg text)
• Stories of the Steppe (Boston: The Stratford Co., 1918), by Maksim Gorky, trans. by Henry Thomas and Isaac Goldberg (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Stories By Foreign Authors: Scandinavian, contrib. by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Juhani Aho, Meïr Goldschmidt, Alexander Lange Kielland, and Fredrika Bremer (Gutenberg text)

• Stories By Foreign Authors: Spanish, contrib. by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, José Selgas, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, and Fernán Caballero (Gutenberg text)

• The Girl from the Marsh Croft (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1910), by Selma Lagerlöf, trans. by Velma Swanston Howard (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Yiddish Tales (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1912), trans. by Helena Frank (Gutenberg text)