The world without man / Charles G. D. Roberts -- Overture / Eugene O'Sullivan -- A trooper of the Thessalians / Arthur D. Howden Smith -- Greek meets Greek / Jack Lindsay -- Cottia went to Bibracte / Naomi Mitchison -- A judgement of Tiberius / W. Outram Tristram -- The cupbearer / Richard Garnett -- A fragment of medieval life / Edgar Wallace -- The death of Lully / Alboud Huxley -- Pretty prickly English rose / Fred Urquhart -- The sacrist of Saint Radegund / Arthur Gray -- A lodging for the night / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Twilight / Margorie Bowen -- The scapulary / Rafael Sabatine -- The king's stratagem / Stanley J. Weyman -- The masque at Ludlow / Anne Manning -- Lorg Ferningham / Booth Tarkington -- Iconoclasts / Norah Lofts -- Mr Codesby's behaviours / A. M. Burrage -- Mr. Mitchelbourne's last escapade / A. E. W. Mason -- Martin's close / M. R. James -- The emancipation of Mrs. Morley / Clemence Dane -- The squire's story / Elizabeth Gaskell -- The missing Shakespeare manuscript / Lillian de la Torre -- My dear Clarissa / Brinsley Moore -- The company of the Marjolaine / John Buchan -- Words for things / Emma Donoghue -- Two good partiots / Baroness Orczy -- A committee man of "The terror" / Thomas Hardy -- Runaway match / Georgette Heyer -- The singular adventure of a small free trader / Arthur Quiller-Couch -- How the brigadier played for a kingdom / A. Conan Doyle -- Catherine Carr / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- Wash / William Faulkner -- The way we lived then / E. M. Delafield -- An Edwardian tableau / Sara Maitland