By P.G. Wodehouse 

By Elizabeth Bowen 

By Ralph Waldo Emerson 

By Jane Austen 

By Peter Ashley 

By Joseph Jacobs 

By Peter Washington 

By Rowan Pelling 

By Edith Wharton 

By Alexander Pushkin 

By Honore De Balzac 

By Louise Guinness 

By Jean de La Fontaine 

By Aesop 

By Hans Christian Andersen 

By Thomas Hardy 

By Carmela Ciuraru 

By Ivan Turgenev 

By Jorge Luis Borges 

By Ivan Turgenev 

By Flann O'Brien 

By George MacDonald Fraser 

By Julian Barnes 

By Ella Carr