This is the Christopher Isherwood volume, which includes among others such texts as Katherine Mansfield's "Marriage a la Mode", Ethel Colburn Mayne's "The Man of the House", Robert Graves's "The Shout", W. Somerset Maugham's "The Book-Bag", VS Pritchett's "Sense of Humour", and William Plomer's "The Child of Queen Victoria". (While there are many pre-ISBN copies, 044033084X is a known ISBN for this work.)

This is distinct from the Dover Thrift Edition of the same name, compiled and edited by Paul Negri. It contains such pieces as Saki's "Tobermory", Hardy's "The Fiddler of the Reels," Dickens' "The Haunted Hotel," Trollope's "The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne," Lawrence's "The Prussian Officer," Kipling's "The Phantom Rickshaw," Wells's "Under the Knife," and others. (0486440907 is the known ISBN for this work.)