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.