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• x • Introduction (A Book of Islands) • essay by John S. Bowman
• 3 • The Shipwrecked Sailor • short story by uncredited
• 7 • The Odyssey (excerpt) • short fiction by Homer
• 14 • The True History (excerpt) • short fiction by Lucian of Samosata [as by Lucian]
• 19 • Sindbad the Sailor: First Voyage • short fiction by uncredited
• 27 • Gulliver's Travels (excerpt) • short fiction by Jonathan Swift
• 40 • Adventures of Baron Munchausen (excerpt) • short fiction by Rudolph Erich Raspe [as by Rudolf Erich Raspe]
• 45 • To Whom This May Come • (1889) • short story by Edward Bellamy
• 63 • Robinson Crusoe (excerpt) • short fiction by Daniel Defoe
• 72 • Swiss Family Robinson (excerpt) • [Der Schweizerische Robinson / The Swiss Family Robinson] • short fiction by Johann David Wyss (trans. of Der Schweizerische Robinson (excerpt) unpublished) [as by Johann Rudolf Wyss (in error)]
• 83 • Masterman Ready (excerpt) • short fiction by Frederick Marryat
• 92 • The Mysterious Island (excerpt) • [Captain Grant and Captain Nemo Universe] • short fiction by Jules Verne
• 102 • German Harry • (1923) • short story by W. Somerset Maugham
• 109 • Guests from Gibbet Island • (1839) • short story by Washington Irving
• 120 • The Isle of Voices • (1893) • novelette by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 137 • The Fiend of the Cooperage • (1968) • short story by Arthur Conan Doyle [as by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]
• 148 • Aepyornis Island • (1924) • short story by H. G. Wells (variant of
  Æpyornis Island^?Aepyornis Island
  1894)
• 159 • A Haunted Island • (1899) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
• 174 • Desert of the Dead • [Strange Tales from Santo Domingo • 2] • (1925) • short story by Arthur J. Burks
• 183 • The Legend of Last Island • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
• 201 • The White Seal • [The Jungle Books] • (1894) • short story by Rudyard Kipling
• 216 • The Landing • (1956) • short story by Liam O'Flaherty
• 223 • Pincher Martin (excerpt) • short story by William Golding
• 231 • The Saga of Njal (excerpt) • short fiction by uncredited
• 241 • Mateo Falcone • non-genre • (1905) • short story by
  Prosper Mérimée^?Prosper Merimee
  (trans. of Mateo Falcone 1829)
• 253 • Property • (1925) • short story by Giovanni Verga (trans. of La Roba 1883)
• 260 • Semillante • (1955) • short story by Guy de Maupassant
• 266 • The Two Hoaxers (excerpt) • short fiction by Stratis Myrivilis
• 279 • The Count of Monte Cristo (excerpt) • short fiction by Alexandre Dumas
• 289 • Typee (excerpt) • short fiction by Herman Melville
• 297 • Treasure Island (excerpt) • short fiction by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 302 • The Vagrant • (1891) • short story by Richard Harding Davis
• 321 • A Son of Empire • (1921) • short story by Lloyd Osbourne
• 332 • The Most Dangerous Game • non-genre • (1924) • novelette by Richard Edward Connell [as by Richard Connell]