From the Book - Regular Print
Colonial period. How the men were parted from the women / Fray Ramon Pane --
A maiden's story / Popol Vuh --
Tocay Capac, the first Inca / Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala --
Plague of ants / Fray Bartolome de las Casas --
Story of Pedro Serrano / Garcilaso de la Vega, el Inca --
Adventurer who pretended that he was a bishop / Gaspar de Villarroel --
Amorous and military adventures / Catalina de Erauso ("The lieutenant nun") --
A deal with Juana Garcia / Juan Rodriguez Freyle.
New nations. Slaughter house / Esteban Echeverria --
Tiger of the plains / Domingo Faustino Sarmiento --
to his regret : confidence of a confidence /
Fray Gomez's scorpion / Ricardo Palma --
Midnight mass / Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis.
Contemporary period. Death of the empress of China / Ruben Dario --
Yzur / Leopoldo Lugones --
Decapitated chicken / Horacio Quiroga --
Baby in pink buckram / João do Rio (Paulo Barreto) --
Man who resembled a horse / Rafael Arevalo Martinez --
Braider / Ricardo Guiraldes --
Man who knew Javanese / Alfonso Henriques de Lima Barreto --
Peace on high / Romulo Gallegos --
Christmas turkey / Mario de Andrade --
Daisy dolls / Felisberto Hernandez --
Photograph / Enrique Amorim --
Clearing / Luisa Mercedes Levinson --
Garden of forking paths / Jorge Luis Borges --
Journey back to the source / Alejo Carpentier --
Tree / Maria Luisa Bombal --
Legend of 'El Cadejo' / Miguel Angel Asturias --
Encarnacion Mendoza's Christmas Eve / Juan Bosch --
Third bank of the river / João Guimarães Rosa --
Image of misfortune / Juan Carlos Onetti --
Tell them not to kill me! / Juan Rulfo --
Hahn's pentagon / Osman Lins --
Switchman / Juan Jose Arreola --
Featherless buzzards / Julio Ramon Ribeyro --
Meat / Virgilio Piñera --
Unborn / Augusto Roa Bastos --
Night face up / Julio Cortazar --
Cooking lesson / Rosario Castellanos --
Doll queen / Carlos Fuentes --
Balthazar's marvelous afternoon / Gabriel Garcia Marquez --
Challenge / Mario Vargas Llosa --
Crime of the mathematics professor / Clarice Lispector --
Buried statues / Antonio Benitez Rojo --
A woman's back / Jose Balza --
Warmth of things / Nelida Piñon --
Penelope / Dalton Trevisan --
Threshold / Christina Peri Rossi --
Parade ends / Reinaldo Arenas --
When women love men / Rosario Ferre.