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How the story is told.
A sheltered mill owner’s wife discovers Parisian flirtation, then mistakes the force of a dream for love.
On her way to a lover’s apartment, a Parisian society wife discovers that habit can exhaust even the most forbidden affair.
A divorced man meets his remarried former wife at a hotel and turns their old grievances into a calculated new proposal.
A smug husband decides he would recognize any sign of adultery and devises a test that may prove more than he wants to know.
A man awaiting surgery confronts death, consciousness, and the scale of the universe while his doctors work.
Reuniting with an old friend makes a Dublin clerk question the life and ambitions he has settled for.
Eveline must decide whether to leave her family and sail away with the man she hopes to marry.
A terrified Mars-bound crewman is given a mental refuge so convincing that his childhood memories become the only world he can see.
A voice in a psychology instructor’s mind guides him toward a way of seeing that strips ordinary reality of meaning.
Wounded in a cavalry clash during the Sino-Japanese War, a Chinese soldier rides alone through the Manchurian fields with death suddenly close.
A retired spaceman dying at home waits to hear one final launch while his family struggles with what his life in space meant to them.
A long-haul spacer returns to Earth to meet his newborn son, drunk, broke, and unsure whether he can stop choosing space over his family.
A submarine officer deserts rather than help begin total nuclear war, but enemy vessels force him to decide what he is still willing to fight for.
