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A soldier survives an ambush on the frontier and returns to a fort where no one accepts his account.
A wounded lieutenant seeks his unit near Stone’s River, but the battlefield has changed around him.
Identical twins share more than a face as one brother’s engagement turns dangerous.
Penniless after a hospital stay, a nightclub dancer visits an old admirer and finds that ordinary clothes have changed their acquaintance.
Escorted through autumn mud, a nameless tramp describes the free Siberian life he hopes awaits him beyond prison.
Lost in a winter city, a carpenter’s dog is rescued by a circus clown who sees in her the makings of a performer.
Olenka can live only through someone else’s passions, adopting each beloved’s work, worries, and opinions as her own.
At a crowded monastery, a traveller shares a room with a young convert whose restless search for learning has left him without a home.
After nearly six thousand years of immortality, a man who wants to die attempts a radical cure: rebuilding the world of his childhood.
A hunted mutant slips past Pluto’s quarantine and finds a dead scientist, a false disaster, and a doorway to a world remembered only in nightmares.
A space Scanner temporarily regains his senses and learns that his own guild plans to kill the man who could make their sacrifice obsolete.
Psyche Zenobia climbs an Edinburgh steeple in search of material for a sensation article and puts her head through a clock face.
A sick young man enters the Virginia mountains and returns with a precise memory of dying in another century.
A widower watches his daughter grow into an exact copy of the wife whose death he once desired.
A disgraced man recounts how a namesake who looked and acted like him kept appearing whenever he was about to cross a moral line.
A veteran returns to his Oklahoma home after the war and finds that the town, his family, and the future they expect no longer fit him.
A narrator studying a famously irresistible man finds the strongest clue to his charm in a woman’s portrait at home.
A caustic observer attacks Parisian politicians, journalists, and friends whose charm masks fickle loyalties and flexible principles.
Amid Cannes’s flower festival, two fashionable women compare the vanity and danger hidden inside the wish to be desired.
A shaved moustache sends a society woman from bedroom complaint to a memory of recognizing French soldiers among the dead.
A sighted mountaineer falls into an isolated valley where blindness is universal—and learns that his advantage has no accepted meaning.
A shy novice becomes a theater critic and finds the stage’s poses and speeches steadily replacing his own personality.
A London psychical researcher leaves his body during an experiment—and returns to find it occupied by something else.
A poor medical student accepts an old philosopher’s inheritance offer and wakes to find that far more than a name has changed hands.
