| Writer | Pu Songling, Washington Irving, Johann Peter Hebel, Heinrich von Kleist, Alexander Pushkin, Unknown, Heinrich Heine, Nikolai Gogol, Christian Friedrich Hebbel, Friedrich Gerstäcker, Charles Dickens, Ivan Turgenev, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Nikolai Semjonowitsch Leskow, Guy de Maupassant, Vilhelm Bergsøe, Lafcadio Hearn, Jonas Lie, Anton Pawlowitsch Tschechow, Rudyard Kipling, Maxim Gorky |
| Editor | Kurt Böttcher |
| Copyright Holder | Verlag Neues Leben |
| Publisher | Verlag Neues Leben |
| Afterword by | Kurt Böttcher |
| Cover/Jacket Design by | Werner Klemke |
| Illustrator | Werner Klemke |
| Manufacturing by | Karl-Marx-Werk Pößneck |
| Format | Hardback |
| Language | German |
| Location | Germany |
| Reprinted | 1963 |
| First Printing | 1959 |
| Pages / Font | 498 pages |
| Edition No. | 2 |
| Notes | Short stories of various authors.
Embossed linen book cover. 2nd edition 1963 |
