A collection of eight adapted classics. All the colorful, gripping, or comic details of the original stories are here.

The voyages of Sindbad the sailor: from The Arabian nights -- The bet / Anton Chekov -- The nightingale / Hans Christian Andersen -- God sees the truth, but waits / Leo Tolstoy -- A piece of string / Guy de Maupassant -- The diary of a madman / Nikolai Gogol -- The necklace / Guy de Maupassant -- The bishop's candlesticks / Victor Hugo.