Volume 1 includes writings by Cervantes, Dickens, Terence Rattigan, Lewis Carroll, Guy de Maupassant, Jack London, Anton Chekhov, John Galsworthy, Luigi Pirandello, Sholom Aleichem, W.S. Gilbert, Frank O'Connor, Shiga Naoya, Anatole France, Agatha Christie, Arthur C. Train, Karel Capek, Mark Twain, John Mortimer, Herman Wouk, A.A. Milne, William Faulkner, Honore de Balzac, Sir Walter Scott, James Reid Parker, Theobald Mathew, W. Somerset Maugham, O. Henry, Louis Auchincloss, Bret Harte, Ben Hecht, Rabelais, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, and Robert Benchley. Volume 2 includes writings by Damon Runyan, William Makepeace Thackeray, H.L. Mencken, Felix Frankfurter, Stephen Crane, Henry James, James McNeill Whistler, John Peter Zenger, Lloyd Paul Stryker, Emile Zola, Morris Raphael Cohen, Sybille Bedford, Edgar Lustgarten, Rebecca West, Joan of Arc, Clarence Darrow, Oscar Wilde, Plato, Daniel Webster, Sir Charles Russell, Gandhi, Robert H. Jackson, George Bernard Shaw, Albert Camus, A.P. Herbert, Francis Bacon, Edmond Cahn, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Justice Louis D. Brandeis, Herman Melville, Henry Miller, Lon L. Fuller, Jonathan Swift, Justice Benjamin Cardozo, Piero Calamandrei, Judge Learned Hand, Judge Jerome Frank, Judge William O. Douglas, Montaigne, James Boswell, and W.H. Auden.