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Two friends promise to send a sign after death, and a meeting on a San Francisco street tests their pact.
Two schoolboys arrive home for Christmas with maps, a pistol, and a secret plan to cross Siberia and seek gold in America.
Five children turn a forbidden late-night game of loto into a small world of greed, vanity, kindness, quarrels, and sudden sleep.
On Easter night, a ferry monk mourns the gentle hymn writer whose words the celebrating monastery never learned to value.
Two tipsy lawyers take a wrong turn after a long walk from the station and break into the wrong country cottage.
An impatient scholar waits to dismiss his late young secretary, then finds that their digressions are the part of the evening he values most.
A timid traveler is mistaken for a space-polo expert, then forced into a deadly match with his ship and reputation at stake.
A mild bookkeeper’s quiet tour of the Solar System turns him into an asteroid-town marshal with an alien beast for backup.
Three friends invent time travel, claim prehistoric America as a nation, and discover that founding a country is harder than reaching the past.
Telepath Underhill and his feline Partner, Lady May, must destroy an alien predator in the milliseconds between jumps through interstellar space.
A captive court jester must design one more masquerade for the king who treats him and his friend as property.
A reclusive naturalist follows a cryptogram from a found parchment into the South Carolina woods in search of pirate treasure.
Two young friends race down an Alpine mountain, then linger over wine as marriage, school, and the end of freedom wait for them below.
After being thrown from a freight train, Nick Adams finds food and company beside a campfire—but the prizefighter waiting there is not safe.
As an autumn storm lashes Michigan, Nick Adams and Bill drink by the fire and talk around the breakup Nick cannot quite explain.
A newlywed tells his oldest friend that marital passion is ruining his health, then finds an arrangement that restores him.
A caustic observer attacks Parisian politicians, journalists, and friends whose charm masks fickle loyalties and flexible principles.
An old school friend visits a conservative country household and treats their hospitality as permission to remake it.
Five penniless boating friends find their carefree life on the Seine transformed by the quick-witted young woman who takes the helm.
A Paris office clerk explains how one disastrous Sunday cured him of the country—and of marriage.
Three drunken artists in military costumes capture a burglar and turn his arrest into an improvised campaign.
On a train, a magistrate recognizes a former officer whose war injuries seem to confirm a familiar tale of lost love.
Two homesick Breton soldiers share every Sunday—until a cowgirl’s kindness divides them.
A fallen log prompts an old bachelor to explain how one dangerous evening ended a close friendship and settled his view of marriage.
