This collection includes the stories "The Prussian Officer", "The Thorn in the Flesh", "Daughters of the Vicar", "A Fragment of Stained Glass", "The Shades of Spring", "Second Best", "The Shadow in the Rose Garden", "Goose Fair", "The White Stocking", "A Sick Collier", "The Christening", and "Odour of Chrysanthemums". Only "The Prussian Officer" is included in the Great Books of the Western World collection.