The air cools down and the days begin to shorten; the leaves changing color put us in contact with the passing of time in a visible way. The autumn has served as inspiration for several writers that you confer in this volume, through great seven short stories.

This book contains:

- One Autumn Night by Maxim Gorky.

- The purloined Letter - Edgar Allan Poe.

- Domestic Peace by Honore de Balzac.

- A Painful Case by James Joyce.

- An Honest Thief by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

- An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving by Louisa May Alcott.

- The Elementary Spirit by E. T. A. Hoffman.