1930. Volume I of II. Some of the authors whose stories were selected for this work Hans Christian Andersen, Giovanni Boccaccio, Winston Churchill, Joseph Conrad, Daniel DeFoe, Anatole France, Victor Hugo, Selma Lagerlof, Basil Lubbock, John Masefield, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Felix Riesenberg, Morley Roberts, Jonathan Swift, and H.G. Wells. Additionally, the volume includes real-life episodes from these Ancient Greece, ancient Rome, Arabia, Persia, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, United States, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Poland, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Japan.